Example sentences of "his [num] sons " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is surprising how little the poet 's father shared in these games and sports , which could have helped form a natural bridge of intimacy with his six sons as they began to go their several ways . |
| 2 | Here was a character , like his Uncle Harry , who offered a way of life quite different from the one Mr Thomas hoped to provide for his six sons . |
| 3 | His six sons , by first wife Patti , did n't find much to laugh about at home . |
| 4 | Five of his six sons ( he had no daughters ) became MPs . |
| 5 | Sir Samuel married three times , but sadly all his three sons died within his lifetime . |
| 6 | His three sons are cathedral choristers : ‘ There have n't been three brothers together in the choir for about 12 years , ’ he says , with some pride . |
| 7 | During the second phase of expansion , Charles allocated authority to his three sons ; each had a kingdom under Charles , and was expected to guard the borders against hostile invasion . |
| 8 | Following Thomas 's death in 1863 , the business continued , now under the control of his widow and Thomas , Edward and Henry , his three sons . |
| 9 | His realm was split between his three sons Sancho , Alfonso and Garcia , along the lines of a will he had made in 1063 . |
| 10 | Well , there was one thing sure : whatever that feeling was he had n't passed it on to even one of his three sons . |
| 11 | This year came Ella to Britain , with his three sons , Clymen and Wlenking , and Cissa , in three ships ; landing at a place that is called Clymenshore . |
| 12 | John Colbround of Bodle Street , in Hurstmonceux , a husbandman , left in 1540 , 14d to his parish church and the cathedral , 4 kine , a mare and a third of his household goods to his wife , 40s to each of his three sons and two daughters , a heifer , ewe and two lambs between them and 20d to the poor . |
| 13 | According to the legends , Hercules was driven mad by Hera , the wife of Zeus , and he killed Megara , his own wife and his three sons . |
| 14 | Basil 's paternal grandfather , Charles Rocke , brought his family up from Wrexham , North Wales , to London in the last quarter of the 19th century , and with his three sons started Rocke & Sons , leather factors , in Bermondsey . |
| 15 | It had been bought by his three sons who all worked in Saudi Arabia . |
| 16 | He was a lifelong Etonian : that his three sons each succeeded him there as captain of Oppidans , and that he himself was elected an Eton fellow , were sources of great personal satisfaction . |
| 17 | A father explained to me that he would put one of his three sons through primary and secondary education . |
| 18 | Bright though his three sons were , they had nothing on Sally-Anne , the daughter conceived in the purest love , out of wedlock , to bring him joy and sorrow . |
| 19 | The line of Jean I ended with Jacques le Romain ; that of Nicolas I had no successors beyond his three sons , and so ended with Nicolas ( dit Colin ) at his death in 1727 . |
| 20 | When he divorced a wife he would set her up in a house of her own with her children ; and as his twenty-seven sons came to maturity he directed them into various different occupations , to ensure a spread of enterprise which would be useful to all of them . |
| 21 | Dr John Foley sat at the head of the table , and looked at his five sons . |
| 22 | Four of his five sons , James [ q.v . ] , |
| 23 | His father came from a long line of bone-setters in Anglesey , but by the middle of the nineteenth century medical opinion was becoming increasingly hostile to these unqualified practitioners , and Evan Thomas sent all of his five sons to study medicine at Edinburgh University . |
| 24 | His most recent summer holidays were spent with his two sons walking in the central Pyrenees : ‘ It was quite gruelling . ’ |
| 25 | The death of Albert Lewis inevitably involved his two sons in practical decisions . |
| 26 | Mr Hartley and his two sons , Christopher and Andrew , only feed them in very severe weather . |
| 27 | Among the apple trees , one hot summer in the 1880s , he dug and puddled a large pond with the help of his two sons , which was used as the family swimming pool for years afterwards . |
| 28 | Dr. Tuke pioneered treatment of mental illness , and when he died , in 1855 , his two sons , Thomas and Edward , both being qualified doctors , carried on the practice . |
| 29 | His two sons , Polonius and Lycander , compete for Terentia 's affections . |
| 30 | His marriage has collapsed and he lives in the south of England with his two sons . |