Example sentences of "his [adj -est] daughter " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dark room was untidy , a large bundle of clothes lay near the wardrobe door , on the bed lay the misshapen form of the Windsor tailor and next to him sat the figure of his youngest daughter . |
| 2 | of his youngest daughter , |
| 3 | Also , his youngest daughter 's birthday was on the 8th . |
| 4 | He grew a real beard , which would incommode him for other parts ; he thought , behaved , responded Learwise , in as short-sighted a fashion as that monarch would have done , having handed on his characteristics to his youngest daughter . |
| 5 | Of an inquiring mind , he also , according to his youngest daughter , Mary Lutyens , combined a natural gift for mathematics with ‘ a creative imagination of genius ’ . |
| 6 | He had given it to his youngest daughter , Margaret , when she trained as a nurse at Benedict 's just after the last World War . |
| 7 | His youngest daughter Margaret married John Hastings Earl of Pembroke in 1359 , and although she died two years later , Pembroke remained high in favour at court and , with royal encouragement , embarked on a plan to reunite the inheritance of his ancestor William Marshall , which had twice been partitioned in the previous century and a half . |
| 8 | ‘ She has n't beaten me yet ’ , he says fondly of his youngest daughter . |
| 9 | All the finds ( about a thousand ) were illustrated from beautiful drawings by his youngest daughter Agnes , then between thirteen and nineteen . |
| 10 | His youngest daughter was almost ready for burial , her body emptied , dried out , repacked , decked out for the long night , bandaged in the finest linen with the scarab placed over her heart , and laid in her case of painted cedarwood . |
| 11 | ‘ But he would be worried about his youngest daughter if he did know , nej ? ’ |
| 12 | TEN years after prison bride Anna Moore brutally murdered his youngest daughter , Dick Dixon still believes the Ballykelly bomber should have been hanged . |
| 13 | Brian Howells says his youngest daughter was lucky to escape injury . |
| 14 | The afternoon was drawing on and he must proceed with despatch , for he had promised his star , Fantina , his dearest daughter , that he would be back early . |
| 15 | The capsule collection of less than 20 pieces has been designed by his oldest daughter Britta . |
| 16 | It was a relief when a secretary appeared — sent by his oldest daughter — and summoned him away on business that had to be decided that night . |
| 17 | His instructions to Blamey were to do even better for his eldest daughter . |
| 18 | One grandfather had earlier abandoned his own responsibilities : ‘ when his wife died he went off and left his family ’ , with his eldest daughter shouldering the task of an unsupported mother of the younger children . |
| 19 | Before he reigned he had , by Doña Sancha his wife the Infanta Doña Urraca , his eldest daughter , who was a right excellent lady , and after her he had the Infante Don Sancho , his eldest son and heir ; and then the Infanta Doña Elvira , whom after the death of the King her father , her brother King Don Alfonso married to the Count Don Garcia de Cabra . |
| 20 | But in France and England , by the early twelfth century , it was generally expected that the vassal would pay an ‘ aid ’ when the lord was captured in war and had to be ransomed , when his eldest son was knighted , and when his eldest daughter was married . |
| 21 | It was commissioned in 1865 by Lord Walsingham as a wedding present for his eldest daughter and took the finest craftsmen five years to complete . |
| 22 | One month after Charles 's funeral , wasting little time , his eldest daughter Elizabeth , who had probably tended her father through his final illness and was by then the official occupier of the dwelling house next to his shop , upped and married by licence . |
| 23 | He had started at the back of the good book and was perversely working his way towards Genesis , which meant that his eldest daughter was called Revelation Straker ; a young woman as pretty as her name , and as happy as all the other children who grew up under Bonefish 's skinny care . |
| 24 | As feudal overlord the King could demand an aid for certain specific purposes : the ransom of his own body if he were captured in war , the knighting of his eldest son , and the marriage of his eldest daughter . |
| 25 | Her father Mufaro comforted his eldest daughter . |
| 26 | Years later his eldest daughter Catherine commented , " The Army came first and the position was accepted by all of us as part of the existing order . " |
| 27 | ‘ Gone to his eldest daughter 's degree-giving in Birmingham . ’ |
| 28 | Oh yes , we 'd check them , erm I have n't got any this Sunday , Lisa Marie that 's his eldest daughter by his first wife . |