Example sentences of "[pers pn] was the [num ord] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were a very respectable family and I was the second child . |
| 2 | I was lucky , too , because I was the fourth child of four . |
| 3 | She was the second child and second daughter in the family of one son and three daughters of Dr Richard Marsden Pankhurst , barrister and republican , and his wife Emmeline Pankhurst [ q.v. ] , daughter of Robert Goulden , a prosperous Manchester cotton manufacturer . |
| 4 | He was the sixth child of working-class parents , Daniel Maclean , crofter and later potter , and his wife Annie McPhee , the grandson on one side of crofters evicted from Mull in the Highland clearances , on the other of migrants to industrial Strathclyde . |
| 5 | He was the tenth child of the retired army captain and professional horse artist Charles Lutyens , and his beautiful Irish wife Mary . |