Example sentences of "two [noun] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After appearing in two warehouses and a mill on tour , I am sure you can work it out for yourself . ’ |
| 2 | He married , in 1943 , Betty Falloon ; they had two sons and a daughter . |
| 3 | Before setting out she had buried her husband , two sons and a daughter — all of them having starved to death . |
| 4 | After a while I married , and had three children , two sons and a daughter . |
| 5 | " Yes , monsieur , two sons and a daughter . " |
| 6 | , 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 . |
| 7 | They had two sons and a daughter . |
| 8 | , 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 . |
| 9 | In 1891 he married Evelyn Frances , daughter of John Bell of Rushpool Hall , Yorkshire ; they had two sons and a daughter . |
| 10 | He was survived by his wife Mary , the daughter of a Birmingham provision merchant , two sons and a daughter . |
| 11 | They had two sons and a daughter . |
| 12 | In 1833 he married Catherine , youngest daughter of George Robert Heneage , of Hainton Hall , Lincolnshire ; they had two sons and a daughter . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | , William ( 1838–1935 ) , gardener and writer , was born in county Down , Ireland , 15 July 1838 , the eldest in the family of two sons and a daughter of William Robinson , land agent , and his wife Catherine . |
| 15 | , Francis Robert ( 1785–1863 ) , Conservative party agent , was born in London 6 September 1785 , he and an older sister Susan being the only surviving children ( two sons and a daughter having died in infancy ) of Francis Warren Bonham , landowner of Ballintaggart , county Kildare , who later settled in England , and his second wife Dorothea Sophia Herbert of Muckross , county Kerry . |
| 16 | They had two sons and a daughter . |
| 17 | They had two sons and a daughter . |
| 18 | They had two sons and a daughter . |
| 19 | They had two sons and a daughter . |
| 20 | They had two sons and a daughter . |
| 21 | He was the eldest of the three children ( two sons and a daughter ) of James Mortimer , a farmer , and his wife Hannah , daughter of John Welburn , a farmer of Fimber . |
| 22 | He was an active member of his local church in Newmilns and is survived by his wife Isobel , two sons and a daughter . |
| 23 | He is survived by his wife , two sons and a daughter . |
| 24 | Joan Daniels joined a Medau class at Blackheath in 1956 and started teacher training in 1961 , which she interrupted to have a family , two sons and a daughter before qualifying in 1969 . |
| 25 | While he was out painting a cottage , two sheep and a goat ambled up over the roof and grazed on its turf . |
| 26 | She obeyed , then thanked Penry Vaughan gratefully as he handed her two tablets and a glass of water . |
| 27 | When he 'd helped her to sit up he handed her two tablets and a cup of hot tea . |
| 28 | I 've got two gerbils and a hamster . |
| 29 | Course when Walsall were promoted , they had n't got into the European systems then it was very much the old five forwards three halfbacks two fullbacks and a goalkeeper in those days , the , the laundry was there , in those days when they were in the second division . |
| 30 | okay , it is where the trouser crease meets the line of the groin and it 's skin deep , okay , so you 'll pushing onto it you 'd probably have to put your two fingers and a pad and your knuckles right in there , alright and you 'll feel it yourself best when you 're lying down and your knee just up like that , that 's when you can feel it best because you can push in harder then , cos you 've relaxed your stomach and that 's another tip for putting pressure on it when you 've got somebody who needs that , you need to relax the stomach muscle , but you manage to put pressure up there okay ? |