Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] the son " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was the son of a rich and famous man and , to McIllvanney , that accident of birth clinked with the corrupt sound of silver spoons . |
| 2 | Flying was in her blood ; she was the son her parents had never had . |
| 3 | Ceolred is said not to have been a son of Osthryth , so that if he were the son of Aethelred by a subsequent marriage after Osthryth 's death , he would have been aged only about 10 or 11 at his accession . |
| 4 | His father had founded the Bedford Infirmary by his bequest , but it was the son , above all , who by his tremendous energy and dedication , brought it into being . |
| 5 | What happened was that it was the son and I could n't get he was given and he 's never had it in his life . |
| 6 | Of the old man perhaps , but it was the son who had been shot . |
| 7 | He was the son of a Cambridge don . |
| 8 | He was the son of a clergyman , the brother of the Archdeacon of Grahamstown and the brother-in-law of the Bishop of Madagascar . |
| 9 | Ernest Betjemann , however , who built Undertown , was in trade ; he was the son of a cabinetmaker and managed a prosperous business manufacturing inlaid cigar boxes and elaborate cocktail cabinets for Maharajas . |
| 10 | So was his position as heir presumptive , a necessary acknowledgement in order to remove any doubt created by the fact that he was the son of a divorced father and his second wife . |
| 11 | He was the son of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Morton . |
| 12 | He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters . |
| 13 | He was the son of an Argyll crofter and although mainly concerned with landscape and seascape he was the first Scottish artist in the 1890s to place people in that landscape without sentimentality . |
| 14 | He was the son of Joshua Green ( b. 1725 ) by his father 's first wife Catherine Simpson , whom he had married on 22nd February 1756 , and who died on 5th September 1760 in her 27th year , just eleven days after giving birth to her son William on the 25th August . |
| 15 | He revisits his birthplace in Port Talbot , where he was the son of a fiery Welsh baker who was himself a frustrated actor . |
| 16 | Nothing is known of his background , other than that he was the son of John Eckford and Janet Black . |
| 17 | Which former Hereford United goalkeeper and prospective parliamentary candidate announced he was the son of God , then said he was a snowplough instead ? |
| 18 | Ray Shepherd 's obsessive grudge against Sakata did n't worry Jack too much ; he was kind to him , even if he was the son of a manager and a southerner as well . |
| 19 | All I knew about Waugh was that he was the son of the famous Evelyn , and has a reputation for the sort of scathing wit that seems to epitomise the self-appointed arbiters of literary , and more generally , artistic taste and standards . |
| 20 | He was the son of Edward the Third , one of our more warlike kings , but he died the year before his father did , and that 's how we came to get the boy-king Richard the Second in thirteen seventy-seven . ’ |
| 21 | Little is known of his early life , except that he was the son of a judge 's clerk , of upper-middle class background , and that the male members of the family were engaged in either the legal or ecclesiastical professions . |
| 22 | He was the son of ZEUS and the mortal princess Alcmene , and possessed many fine qualities , including extraordinary wit and great strength . |
| 23 | He was the son of a black sheep of the family , Thomas Chambers Cecil by his French wife , Charlotte Gormier . |
| 24 | And he was her son , he was the son of a mad woman . |
| 25 | He was the son of a World War One Army aviator and according to his Squadron Commander Jim Parsons ‘ he was an exceptional young man , very likeable but more aggressive than most ’ . |
| 26 | He was the son of a club professional in the Midlands , and had apparently first swung a golf club when he was about three . |
| 27 | She could have been his mother , for he was the son of John Symmys of that parish , or even his relict , for he himself must have been dead by 1525 , when the Ridlington lease was granted to the duke of Richmond . |
| 28 | Born in 1589 , he was the son of a small tenant farmer . |
| 29 | He was the son of a minister in Denton and had attended Trinity College . |
| 30 | He was the son of the Vicar of Dent , went to Sedbergh School and later on to Cambridge , where he became one of the most important founders of the present science of geology . |