Example sentences of "they had [adj] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had two children , the son , a motor engineer was forever trying to get old motorbikes to function , his greasy overalls being quite out of tune with the cleanliness of mother 's shop . |
| 2 | They had two children — one at work and one at school . |
| 3 | They had two children , a girl of five and a boy of two , and one of my first jobs was to take the little girl to school . |
| 4 | They had two children . |
| 5 | They had two children , Princess Martha Louise , 19 , and Crown Prince Haakon Magnus , 17 . |
| 6 | Gabrielle 's relationship with Baldwin blossomed and they had two children together , Sam and Harry , but later the couple parted and she brought up the two boys . |
| 7 | They had one child , a son . |
| 8 | He first married ( in 1596 ) Elizabeth , the daughter of John Webbe , a prominent Canterbury merchant ; they had one child , Jane . |
| 9 | They had eight children . |
| 10 | Amid all this turmoil , Nu followed Gandhi in announcing to his wife that henceforth he would live in celibacy ( like the Mahatma , he waited until after they had five children ) . |
| 11 | A local man , known throughout his youth to be a steady worker , apprenticed to a mason , had married as soon as he came out of his apprenticeship , a girl from Rydal , nearby , and they had five children . |
| 12 | In 1570 she married William Smyth , embroiderer , and they had five children , two of whom were admitted to Christ 's Hospital . |
| 13 | Light lived with a Portuguese Eurasian , Martina Rozells , and they had five children , the eldest being William Light [ q.v. ] , the founder of Adelaide . |
| 14 | They had five children : Mary , Bartholomew ( later apprenticed to his father ) , Anna Maria , John , and Ann , who in 1843 married Richard Thomas Staples-Brown . |
| 15 | They had five children . |
| 16 | They had four children and not much income and in those days believed like the rest of the middle class that they could only find a good education for their boy at an independent fee-paying school . |
| 17 | They had four children , William , Rupert , Charlotte , and Henry . |
| 18 | Dear Uncle Mike and Auntie Sue … they had four children to think about , but had still made the effort to choose a book Rebecca would really enjoy . |
| 19 | They had four children in Amsterdam , but only their sole daughter , Jane , survived . |
| 20 | To when they had young children , and a husband coming home from work . |
| 21 | On 3 August 1871 he married Hannah , daughter of R. Garnett of Farnworth ; they had six children . |
| 22 | They had six children , four of whom ( one daughter and three sons ) survived to adulthood . |
| 23 | They lived at Blankley Bath near Methringham and they had six children , John , Thomas , William , Joseph , Mary and Harriet . |
| 24 | At an early age , Edward I had married Eleanor of Castile , and they had sixteen children ( nine died in infancy ) and they were devoted to each other . |
| 25 | They had thirteen children , of whom one boy and five girls lived to maturity . |
| 26 | They had twelve children , of whom only six daughters and one son survived infancy . |
| 27 | They had twelve children . |
| 28 | They had twelve children , one dying in childhood . |
| 29 | They had nine children but only one , a daughter Nicolarde , called Colette , survived beyond infancy . |
| 30 | On board the steamer the two of them were talking about what would happen to the title if Lord Woodleigh was to die before they had any children , and Lord Woodleigh said — Sven Hjerson 's ears heard it — although now you get the estate . |