Example sentences of "they be to have [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were to have one son . |
| 2 | They were to have one son , Daniel , born in 1768 , and a daughter , Frances . |
| 3 | They were to have one son . |
| 4 | They were to have six children ( five sons and a daughter ) : Jean Baptiste ( b 1732 ) , Antoine Jacques ( b 1733 ) , François ( b 1735 ) , Eugène Menin ( b 1737 ) , Jacques Louis ( b 1740 ) and Marie Geneviève . |
| 5 | They were to have eight children , of whom six died in extreme infancy and only two sons , Frederick Arthur and Leslie , survived . |
| 6 | They were to have three children ; Will junior , Gladys ( both of whom went on the stage ) , and Joan . |