Example sentences of "five sons " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Thomas household had five sons by the time Edward was ten years old . |
| 2 | Henry II had five sons who were suspicious and envious of each other , but three of them died before Henry died in the summer of 1189 , and all his possessions passed to Richard , who had pledged himself to set out for the Holy Land on the Third Crusade . |
| 3 | ‘ Now you have five sons . |
| 4 | Dr John Foley sat at the head of the table , and looked at his five sons . |
| 5 | The five sons would become Samuel 's missionaries to the new world . |
| 6 | And I had five sons , a disabled father , according to the media , and er , I got on with it . |
| 7 | I was born in Nottinghamshire and was the third of five sons . |
| 8 | Diocletian ( reigned 284–305 ) was one of five sons of Illyrian peasants who were to wear the imperial purple . |
| 9 | , Hugh John ( 1886–1947 ) , writer , was born 14 January 1886 in Maidenhead , Berkshire , the fourth son in the family of five sons and one daughter of an Irishman , John Brien Lofting , clerk of works , and Elizabeth Agnes Cannon , his English wife . |
| 10 | , Joseph ( 1778–1855 ) , pioneer cement maker , was born in Hunslet , Leeds , the eldest in the family of five sons and one daughter of Thomas Aspdin , bricklayer of Hunslet , and his wife Mary . |
| 11 | , Robert ( 1761–1843 ) , Ulster businessman and radical , was baptized in Belfast 20 March 1761 , the fifth child in the family of five sons and two daughters of Robert Simms , merchant and tanner , and his wife Elizabeth Stevenson of Belfast . |
| 12 | On 21 April 1868 he married Charlotte , the youngest daughter of Samuel Pyke ; they had five sons and one daughter . |
| 13 | , Thomas Longridge ( 1808–1882 ) , civil engineer , was born in London 1 November 1808 , the first son and second of ten children ( five sons and five daughters ) of John Gooch , cashier of Bedlington ironworks , near Morpeth , Northumberland , and his wife Anna , daughter of Thomas Longridge , iron-founder , of Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 14 | They had five sons and five daughters , of whom three sons and four daughters survived infancy . |
| 15 | , Samuel Moses James ( 1867–1931 ) , sportsman , was born 14 April 1867 in Ashfield , near Sydney , Australia , the fourth in the family of five sons and seven daughters of John Woods , of Manly Beach , Sydney . |
| 16 | , Benjamin Neeve ( 1842–1926 ) , geologist and palaeontologist , was born 6 September 1842 in Gorran Haven , Cornwall , the youngest of the eight children ( five sons and three daughters ) of Charles William Peach , coastguard , and his wife Jemima Mabson . |
| 17 | , James , Baron Ashton ( 1842–1930 ) , linoleum manufacturer , was born 31 December 1842 in Lancaster , the third of five sons ( three of whom died in infancy ) and the fourth of six children of James Williamson , originally of Keswick , painter , decorator , and later oilcloth manufacturer of Lancaster , and his wife Eleanor , daughter of Leonard Miller , innkeeper of the Blue Anchor , Lancaster . |
| 18 | Four of his five sons , James [ q.v . ] , |
| 19 | He had five sons and three daughters . |
| 20 | Bell was married 28 February 1678 to Anne Brumble ; they had five sons and one daughter . |
| 21 | They had five sons and three daughters before she died in childbirth at Zhenjiang in July 1870 . |
| 22 | , Henry ( c. 1592–1645 ) , landowner and farmer , was born c .1592 , probably in Hutton Cranswick , east Yorkshire , the second of five sons and the second of six children of James Best , yeoman of Hutton Cranswick ( later gentleman of Elmswell , east Yorkshire ) , and his wife Dorothy , whose background and maiden name are not known . |
| 23 | Best had five sons and two daughters . |
| 24 | or , Maurice ( 1604–1676 ) , merchant , was born in Watton , Hertfordshire in 1604 , the eldest son and third child in the minor gentry family of five sons and four daughters of Robert Thompson of Cheshunt and his wife Elizabeth , daughter of John Halfehead . |
| 25 | They had five sons and six daughters . |
| 26 | , John ( 1801–1889 ) , founder of the Cadbury cocoa and chocolate firm , was born 12 August 1801 in Birmingham into a family of four generations of Quakers , the fifth child and third son in the family of five sons and five daughters of Richard Tapper Cadbury , draper , and his wife Elizabeth , daughter of John Head of Ipswich . |
| 27 | They had five sons and one daughter . |
| 28 | In 1686 Mansel married Martha , only daughter and heiress of a prosperous London merchant , Francis Millington ; they had five sons and five daughters . |
| 29 | , Sir Richard ( c. 1410–1482 ) , courtier and poet , was the fifth son in the family of five sons and four daughters of William , seventh Baron Roos of Helmsley ( d . |
| 30 | The marriage produced five sons and eight daughters , one of whom died young . |