Example sentences of "had [num] [adj] sons " in BNC.

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1 They had six surviving sons and four daughters .
2 The 16-year-old boy complained that his mother , who remarried and had three younger sons by her second husband , kept picking on him and ridiculing him .
3 Then she married again , had three more sons — and began picking on her oldest .
4 By his second marriage , on 17 September 1731 , to Rachel , daughter of Nehemiah Champion , a Bristol Quaker merchant with metallurgical interests , he had three more sons and two daughters .
5 They had two surviving sons .
6 , Arthur Norman ( 1914–1969 ) , philosopher , was born 4 December 1914 in Masterton , New Zealand , the only child of Elizabeth Munton Rothesay Teague ( who died shortly after his birth ) and Norman Henry Prior , medical doctor , who remarried shortly after his wife 's death , and had two other sons and a daughter .
7 Later my mother had two other sons , Ernest and William .
8 He had two fine sons .
9 The former love , who did not want his name revealed , said Suzannah had two grown-up sons .
10 Sir John Markham was married three times ; first to Anne , daughter of Sir George Neville , by whom he had three sons ; secondly to Margery , daughter of Ralph Longford ; and thirdly around 1521 to Anne , widow of Richard Stanhope of Rampton , by whom he had two further sons and three daughters .
11 The extent of the territory to be administered and the fact that Henry and Eleanor had four strong sons to inherit these lands was to prove a problem .
12 He had four surviving sons and one surviving daughter , as well as a number of children who died in infancy .
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