Example sentences of "[noun] had [adj] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wrote one another at first but then my ex-wife had another child , you know how it is … |
| 2 | David had many children . |
| 3 | Altogether Henry II and Eleanor had eight children , the last of whom , John , was born in 1167 . |
| 4 | Joseph and Ann had six children , none of whom is named in the will . |
| 5 | Without the information contained in the parish register , one might reasonably suppose that Joseph and Ann had three children , who were each to receive only a shilling unless Ann remarried , upon which occasion they would inherit the entire estate . |
| 6 | The record shows that the Hobys had four children — two sons and two daughters . |
| 7 | From his two marriages John Blackwell had seventeen children . |
| 8 | My parents had two children : an older brother , and myself . |
| 9 | Her parents had eleven children legitimately and probably others besides . |
| 10 | Pat Groves had four children at the school . |
| 11 | The General Household Survey shows that , in 1982 , 44 per cent of women in paid employment worked part-time , and 70 per cent of part-time women workers had dependent children . |
| 12 | Maurice had five children born in six years . |
| 13 | , my first years had two children , had no breast problems and I 'm having a horrendous time just now and I 'm on H R T , I 'm on my third different kind ! |
| 14 | Many of the customers had young children and were worried about the plans for evacuation . |
| 15 | Almost all the 38 families were what would today be regarded as large , but was fairly normal for working-class families in Edwardian Britain.7 Of the 38 , 11 families had 4 children or less , 21 had between 5 and 7 , and 6 had 8 or over . |
| 16 | In terms of both household size and number of children per family ethnicity seemed more important than class , with 3.6 and 3.7 people in Welsh working class and middle class households respectively , and 6.7 and 7.1 in Bangladeshi working class and middle class households respectively ; Welsh middle and working class families had 1.5 children on average , while Bangladeshi working class averaged 3.4 and middle class 2.1 . |
| 17 | Mr and Mrs Sayers had five children , but only one son , John . |
| 18 | ALANA STEWART Married for five years , Rod and Alana had two children |
| 19 | Anyway , lots of really famous people had illegitimate children . |
| 20 | What she did not know was that Freddie had two children by his other woman . |
| 21 | What we already know of the Titfords can serve as a model : Charles the Cheesemonger in the late 18th century had 13 children , seven of whom died in infancy ; his grandson , Benjamin the Silversmith , had reduced the number of offspring to five , and would live to see all but one reach adulthood . |
| 22 | Martin and Marie Crespy had six children , two sons ( Jacques Martin and Jean ) and four daughters ( Marie Anne , Angelique , Louise Marie and Louise ) . |
| 23 | Some had large dependent families , while others had teenage children able to make a substantial contribution . |
| 24 | The Baldwins had six children , two sons and four daughters , born between 1895 and 1904 . |
| 25 | By the time they had reached age 36 , with their fertility almost complete , 52 per cent of the mothers in the 1946 cohort of births had two children , 16 per cent just one , and 32 per cent three or more ( Kiernan 1989c ) . |
| 26 | Val had four children aged between seventeen and six , and had been working as a childminder at home to supplement the family income . |
| 27 | By this time the couple had six children , two of whom now live as far away as Japan and Cyprus . |
| 28 | The couple had two children , Tom , now 14 , and Harriet , 11 . |
| 29 | The couple had two children , Lady Rosemary , now 13 , and Lady Alicia-Jane , now 11 . |
| 30 | John and Sarah Freeth had nine children , of whom one son and seven daughters are mentioned in his will . |