Example sentences of "son [prep] [art] former [noun] " in BNC.

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1 According to Radio Française d'Outre-Mer on the nearby French-administered island of Mayotte , about 30 officers were involved in the coup attempt , led by Lt. Abderamane Abdallah and Lt. Cheikh Abdallah , sons of the former President , Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahman , who was assassinated on Nov. 27 , 1989 , in the coup which brought Djohar to power [ see pp. 37033-34 ] .
2 The latter , a son of a former Headmaster of The School for the Deaf in Liverpool was a world-famous consultant psychiatrist specialising in the diagnosis and treatment of deaf patients .
3 The son of a former officer in the Dragoon Guards , Captain Donald Swan , who still trains in Tipperary , Charlie obviously had racing in his blood and after leaving school at 15 he had made up his mind to be a jockey .
4 Jason Drysdale , the son of a former Hartlepool United defender , caught out Middlesbrough with a superb free-kick for David Holdsworth to score .
5 Cairns hit two fours and a six in his forthright 42 , while Harris , like his partner the son of a former NZ Test player , stayed 73 balls , hitting a solitary four .
6 This is the setting of an election incontro ( encounter ) for Mario Segni , parliamentary candidate for the Christian Democrats , radical reformer , and son of a former president .
7 Paul Hopkinson was born on June 29 1906 , the son of a former professor of archaeology who became a clergyman and eventually retired as Archdeacon of West Morland .
8 The Democrat nomination was won by Terry Goddard , former mayor of Phoenix and the son of a former governor .
9 In November Brazil refused a request for the extradition of Gustavo Adolfo Stroessner , son of the former dictator .
10 The following week Middlesbrough-born Steve Livingstone son of the former Hartlepool and Middlesbrough centre forward Joe Livingstone signed for £450,000 .
11 The Newcastle boss snapped up 18-year-old Peter Cormack junior — the son of the former Liverpool midfielder — from Meadowbank for £10,000 .
12 Elizabeth Woodville , informed of the arrest of her brother and of her son by a former marriage , as well as of the young king 's faithful chamberlain , was beside herself with anger and anxiety .
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