Example sentences of "had a daughter " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day I wrote to Mrs Girdlestone ; a nice letter , explaining that Mrs Ross had a daughter living in Scotland , and giving the address . |
| 2 | ‘ She had a daughter and two grandsons , but they were estranged . ’ |
| 3 | McEwan Younger married first , in 1936 ( marriage dissolved in 1967 ) , Nora Balfour ; they had a daughter . |
| 4 | Grace , who had a daughter , Peggy van Druten , by an earlier marriage , was twenty-six . |
| 5 | Having established himself at Ince , Killigrew set off for the busy mercantile town of Plymouth , where he soon fell in with a merchant , Tremayne , who had a daughter , Mary . |
| 6 | We had a daughter of nineteen at Teacher Training College and two sons , sixteen and thirteen , still at school . |
| 7 | Mr. Stone was an old man with a full white beard although he had a daughter several years younger than me . |
| 8 | She had a daughter , Rosemary Worty , who looked up to me because I locked her up one night . |
| 9 | She was so disorganised and absent-minded that , while out visiting , she would often forget that she had a daughter , leaving her stranded for hours . |
| 10 | Other fathers were often unemployed and jealous of a child bringing home a weekly wage : understandable if they had a daughter like Dolly Ashby : |
| 11 | The couple had a daughter , Marjorie , who grew up deprived of contact with paternal relatives and excluded from any news of John and his work . |
| 12 | If I had a daughter getting married this summer I would be tempted to give her a twopart party in similar vein . |
| 13 | Great-Great-Grandfather Tallentire had a daughter called Hannah who became a Bayles when she married and who was my father 's grandmother . |
| 14 | I heard you had a daughter . |
| 15 | Now Wendy had a daughter , called Bridget , after Biddy Macleod , Hamish seemed less interested in his older children . |
| 16 | ‘ Once we knew we had a daughter someplace out there , what could we do but try to find her ? ’ they said . |
| 17 | Annabel could hardly believe that she had a daughter about to go to university . |
| 18 | Wait until Johnnie had a daughter of his own ! |
| 19 | He had a daughter as well now whom he had been tempted to call Lilian but had seen the unwisdom of this in time and named her Bridget . |
| 20 | An odd kind of feeling took hold of him at the thought he had a daughter . |
| 21 | Our next-door neighbours , Mr and Mrs Buckley , had a daughter named Sally who had been staying with an aunt for a year or so . |
| 22 | I thought : if Richard and I had a daughter , would we quarrel over this ? |
| 23 | He missed death in the trenches in the First World War , had a daughter who died young , and he was now in hospital separated from his wife . |
| 24 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 25 | I mentioned I had a daughter , Julia . |
| 26 | He had a daughter about that age himself . |
| 27 | I mean I 'd had a sort of cry I suppose , but at the actual time I was glad I had a daughter [ after two sons ] . |
| 28 | Anne Plantagenet , meanwhile , had divorced Exeter and married Thomas St Leger , by whom she had a daughter , also called Anne . |
| 29 | He had a daughter my age called Zoe and he sent me illustrated books of Australian flowers and bird-life . |
| 30 | Jean had a daughter by her former marriage and , soon after moving to a flat not far from Hamilton Terrace , held a party for her , inviting adults as they as yet knew no children in the area . |