Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and a daughter " in BNC.
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| 1 | He returns with two wives , eleven sons and a daughter , male and female slaves , and large flocks and herds of sheep and goats , camels , cattle and asses ( and Laban 's household gods ! ) . |
| 2 | , John Stewart ( 1856–1920 ) , metallurgical chemist , was born 9 December 1856 at 12 Norfolk Street , Hutchesontown , Glasgow , one of six sons and a daughter ( two other sons died in infancy ) of Robert McArthur ( spelled thus on the birth certificate ) , tailor , of Glasgow , and his wife Elizabeth Stewart . |
| 3 | They had six sons and a daughter , three of the sons spending all or most of their working lives in the service of the Church Times . |
| 4 | Walton married , in 1943 , Helen Robson ; they had three sons and a daughter . |
| 5 | He married , in 1958 , Helen , daughter of Lt-Col R P T ffrench ; they had three sons and a daughter . |
| 6 | , Sir William Alexander ( 1854–1914 ) , founder of the Boys ' Brigade , was born 27 October 1854 at Pennyland House , near Thurso , Caithness , the eldest in the family of three sons and a daughter of David Smith of Pennyland , a director of the Labuan Coal Company in China , and his wife Harriet , daughter of Alexander Fraser , merchant , of Glasgow . |
| 7 | Although three sons and a daughter survived infancy , only his daughter , Sarah , and second son , John , survived him , the latter to pursue a successful career in the City , centred on the Levant trade . |
| 8 | He married 17 November 1631 his cousin Mary Darley , daughter of Sir Richard Darley JP , of Buttercrambe , Yorkshire ( died c .1654 ) , having three sons and a daughter . |
| 9 | He married for a second time about 1660 Sarah Winnock , a widow with three sons and a daughter . |
| 10 | , Thomas Gwynn ( 1871–1949 ) , poet , scholar , and writer , was born at Gwyndy Uchaf farm , Betws-yn-Rhos , Denbighshire , 10 October 1871 , the eldest in the family of three sons and a daughter of Isaac Jones , farmer , and his wife Jane Roberts . |
| 11 | He left three sons and a daughter . |
| 12 | , Robert Henry ( 1833–1916 ) , meteorologist , was born in Dublin 28 January 1833 , one of five sons and a daughter of James Smyth Scott , QC , a prominent Dublin lawyer , and his wife Louisa , daughter of Charles Brodrick , archbishop of Cashel , and sister of the sixth and seventh viscounts Midleton . |
| 13 | They were to have six children ( five sons and a daughter ) : Jean Baptiste ( b 1732 ) , Antoine Jacques ( b 1733 ) , François ( b 1735 ) , Eugène Menin ( b 1737 ) , Jacques Louis ( b 1740 ) and Marie Geneviève . |
| 14 | , 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 . |
| 15 | Her husband and two other sons and a daughter , as well as a friend who was staying with them , managed to escape . |
| 16 | They had four sons and a daughter , Bessie Lee , who had inherited the beauty of her grandmother . |
| 17 | They have four sons and a daughter . |
| 18 | , George Josiah ( 1828–1892 ) , founder and first editor of the Church Times , was born in Clapham , Surrey , 30 June 1828 , the eldest son and second child in the family of four sons and a daughter of George Josiah Palmer , printer , of Savoy Street , Strand , and his wife Charlotte , daughter of John Hatchard [ q.v. ] , the Evangelical publisher and bookseller , founder of Hatchards in Piccadilly . |
| 19 | He married , in 1943 , Betty Falloon ; they had two sons and a daughter . |
| 20 | Before setting out she had buried her husband , two sons and a daughter — all of them having starved to death . |
| 21 | After a while I married , and had three children , two sons and a daughter . |
| 22 | " Yes , monsieur , two sons and a daughter . " |
| 23 | , Oliver Vaughan Snell ( 1882–1970 ) , mechanical engineer , was born 19 September 1882 in Invercargill , New Zealand , the eldest in the family of two sons and a daughter of William Bulleid , a businessman from North Tawton , Devon , and his wife Marian ( daughter of Oliver Vaughan Pugh ) from Llanfyllin , Montgomeryshire , to which she returned with her children in 1889 on the death of her husband . |
| 24 | They had two sons and a daughter . |
| 25 | , Sir Ellis Hovell ( 1874–1953 ) , archaeologist and palaeographer , was born in Weston , Hampshire , 16 July 1874 , the third in the family of two sons and a daughter of the Revd George William Walter Minns , vicar of Weston , and his wife Jane Porter Boggs . |
| 26 | In 1891 he married Evelyn Frances , daughter of John Bell of Rushpool Hall , Yorkshire ; they had two sons and a daughter . |
| 27 | He was survived by his wife Mary , the daughter of a Birmingham provision merchant , two sons and a daughter . |
| 28 | They had two sons and a daughter . |
| 29 | In 1833 he married Catherine , youngest daughter of George Robert Heneage , of Hainton Hall , Lincolnshire ; they had two sons and a daughter . |
| 30 | He married in 1924 Anne Christabel , daughter of Sir James Bennett Brunyate , KCSI , CIE , of the Indian Civil Service ; they had two sons and a daughter . |