Example sentences of "had [num] [adj] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Toop had eleven other children and did not cry too long for her lost son . |
| 2 | His mother , Queen Taj ol Molok , appeared different — tiny and delicate , But she was equally fierce and unbending ; in later years she was frequently described as a harridan She was not easily appeased when , after the birth of the twins , Reza Shah took more wives , with whom he had six more children . |
| 3 | The Ferrers family pedigree is woven into a silk pennant thirty feet long , a complicated lineage because the first Earl had twenty-seven legitimate children and a reputed thirty bastards . |
| 4 | Robert and Ella Burrows were not only married , they already had three small children when they felt the compulsion to enter the ministry . |
| 5 | After his father 's early death his mother married a local farmer , John Clayton , and had three more children . |
| 6 | Burns had fourteen known children , half of them born out of wedlock . |
| 7 | His wife had ten live-born children , six daughters and four sons . |
| 8 | Of the HIV infected parents of dependent children , 17 had one dependent child , nine had two , and seven had three or more . |
| 9 | Mrs Farrell , who lived alone with her dog , had five grown-up children . |
| 10 | For example one person I worked with was a single parent who had five dependent children living with her , and no other adult appeared to be involved . |
| 11 | It was n't entirely an idle question since Wendy and Tom Witherington had two young children upon whom their bachelor uncle doted . |
| 12 | She had two young children , aged five and seven , and the ASW expressed concern for their welfare . |
| 13 | About four years after completing my work with lead poisoning I became a lecturer in medical genetics , working part-time as by then I had two young children . |
| 14 | I had two young children whom 1 left with a child minder nearby . |
| 15 | She had two young children and was going to be thirty she felt the responsibility of having to forget her fantasy life as her Frenchman 's cabin boy . |
| 16 | ‘ And when she noticed I had two other children with me she laughed and said she knew what a handful they could be . ’ |
| 17 | He had two small children , and it was Miss Miggs 's dearest wish to see them . |
| 18 | However , there was no doubt that , despite Owen 's low salary as a lecturer in philosophy at Columbia University , and the fact that they had two small children to clothe and feed , her cousin and her husband were amazingly happy and contented together . |
| 19 | She was married to a BBC exective and they had two small children . |
| 20 | If I did marry Parr , and had two little children and made a lovely home , I 'd be allowed to run off the rails a bit , so long I was discreet . |
| 21 | She had two adult children who lived nearby , and had stopped visiting them as was her usual custom . |
| 22 | She had two grown-up children who were both married and living away from home . |
| 23 | Before their encounter Sien had two illegitimate children , in 1874 and 1879 . |
| 24 | I had two more children and taught higher national diploma courses in the evenings at the local technical college . |
| 25 | But er he he came back and they had er they had two more children actually . |
| 26 | The woman had four other children by her marriage ; they crept into the room , peeped at Edouard , and crept away . |