Example sentences of "of [pron] [num] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July 1795 he married Sarah , the daughter of his first tutor , the Revd George Walker ; they had three sons and seven daughters , of whom three children died young . |
| 2 | I 've sold my home in London and the eldest of my two children will be starting school here next month . ’ |
| 3 | On 31st March 1855 the last of my six children died . |
| 4 | It is the generally accepted method of succession in our family , but , ’ the corpse sighed , or at least a sigh came from the air a few feet above it , ‘ it soon became obvious that none of my three children is sufficiently powerful to wrest the lordship of the Wyrmberg from the other two . |
| 5 | The birth of the first of their four children signalled a complete change in her life as , lacking convincing models for the successful media personality and mother , she created her own . |
| 6 | Of their four children , a boy and a girl died as infants and two daughters , Sarah and Elizabeth , became the wives of George Stanley and Lord Cadogan respectively , both husbands proving dutiful correspondents with their father-in-law on matters of health and horticulture . |
| 7 | During the 18 years they had lived in Sion House in Tunbridge Wells they had grown accustomed to its neo-classical spaciousness , but since two of their four children had married and left home it made sense to move to somewhere smaller . |
| 8 | For Rosemarie and Bob Ray , from Eastbourne in Sussex , it was a stunning reward for the years they 'd spent encouraging and supporting Fiona , who 's the youngest of their four children . |
| 9 | Her husband , Jeff Hoare , paints large , colourful abstract landscapes , and three of their four children have degrees in fine art : Sarajane is Fashion Director at Vogue magazine ; Tessana is also a painter , currently working on an exhibition of pictures of 1990s architecture ; and their brother Pom is a furniture designer and carpenter who also paints . |
| 10 | Although at first united , Nut and Geb were then separated by their father for ever , but their initial union gave rise to the births of their four children , two sons , Osiris and Seth , and two daughters , Isis and Nephthys . |
| 11 | Of their four children ( one son and three daughters ) , three subsequently distinguished themselves — Beatrix as an actress , Rosamond as a novelist , and John as a man of letters . |
| 12 | Well , there were : by the time they left Clerkenwell William and Mary Ann had already produced four out of their five children — all boys . |
| 13 | Overthrown Tsar Nicholas II , his wife Alexandra and three of their five children were slaughtered on July 17 , 1918 , to stop them becoming a focal point for opposition to communist leaders Lenin and Trotsky . |
| 14 | Thee were plenty of amusements for the young guests , including a palmist who proved very popular ; also a tombola , which was most efficiently run by Mr and Mrs John Pearce , helped by four of their five children . |
| 15 | The maisonette in Plymouth which she and husband Gilbert share with two of their six children is to get a dream kitchen . |
| 16 | Of their six children only a son and a daughter survived . |
| 17 | Herbert was the second of their six children , and at the age of twelve was sent to St Bartholomew 's Grammar School in Newbury , Berkshire . |
| 18 | His wife died a year later ; they were survived by five of their twelve children . |
| 19 | The prosecution have said Tanya was killed by Probyn the day before a court hearing for custody of their two children , and he caused her car to drop beneath the waters of the River Severn . |
| 20 | The youngest of their seven children ( three boys and four girls ) , C. Kenneth Horne [ q.v. ] , became a notable radio comedian . |
| 21 | In the neighbouring parish of Cosby the 1851 census returns show that both William and Mary Burbage , a couple in their forties , were working at frames , that the four eldest of their ten children were framework knitters , and that three more children worked at seaming ; the youngest worker was Elizabeth , aged six . |
| 22 | Having studied painting at St Martin 's School of Art , London , 1951–55 she went on to work variously as a consultant designer , art teacher , illustrator , Joint Board Examiner and raiser of her four children . |
| 23 | Taki , who has homes in London , New York and Italy , wrote in the Observer article : ‘ The Queen is titular head of the Church of England , yet three of her four children have made unsuccessful marriages . |
| 24 | She was selfless and I can not fault the way she dealt with me — not the easiest of her five children . |
| 25 | But the eldest of her five children was thirteen — therefore Boswell 's observation of ‘ an old looking woman ’ had a truer ring . |
| 26 | Mrs Ann Marie O'Donnell of St. Serf 's Parish spoke of Self Control and Holiness and four of her five children spoke of the change of heart in his or her own life . |
| 27 | I 'd woken up the next morning at Aisha 's place , not convinced that I was really in London : her flat was like any flat at home with the same smell , the same coloured ottomans and rugs , the same pictures on the walls , the brass tray in the middle of the room , and the loud shrieks and wails of her two children puncturing the air . |
| 28 | The last thing she heard , before blackness closed over her , was the violent , hysterical screaming of her two children . |
| 29 | After qualifying Margaret opened her own school of dancing in Hove and continued to teach until the birth of her two children ; music and dance have continued to play a major part throughout her life . |
| 30 | She bore the first of her eight children at fifteen ( the last two died young ) . |