Example sentences of "[adj -est] son was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The youngest son was kept alive , to be reared as a Muslim . ’ |
| 2 | Throughout the long days of his recovery , the Youngest Son was never left alone . |
| 3 | I had not seen Um Hamed since those frightening days when the Youngest Son was in hospital . |
| 4 | His youngest son was known to Regency society by the sobriquet Poodle Byng . |
| 5 | The Dean 's youngest son was twenty-two . |
| 6 | He kissed her , held her to the breast where the skin of the youngest son was warmed by his own skin , and the horn of the stag kept the life and the memory of the youngest son alive . |
| 7 | Apparently that imperious woman , Lady Nancy Wyndham , felt that her youngest son was marrying well beneath him , although her husband had been very kind and friendly . |
| 8 | ‘ When my youngest son was born , we clocked him in to the second . |
| 9 | John Shakespeare was pleased that his oldest son was married , but I do n't think Will 's mother wanted him to marry so young . |
| 10 | Janet Cohen , a merchant banker and novelist , confesses : ‘ I went quite mad last summer when my eldest son was doing his A-levels . |
| 11 | In 1170 , Henry 's eldest son was crowned by the Archbishop of York and was henceforward called ‘ the Young King ’ Henry . |
| 12 | It was occupied by the Fry family — the eldest son was Sergeant Major of St. Martin 's Church Lads Brigade who used to camp out in bell tents at Shady Bower during the summer months . |
| 13 | But in France and England , by the early twelfth century , it was generally expected that the vassal would pay an ‘ aid ’ when the lord was captured in war and had to be ransomed , when his eldest son was knighted , and when his eldest daughter was married . |
| 14 | ‘ At that point Prince Philip told his wife that their eldest son was unsuitable to become monarch in the foreseeable future — if ever , ’ says a senior royal insider . ’ |
| 15 | An examination of the naming patterns used by the Titfords of Frome would suggest at a cursory glance that every eldest son was named after his paternal grandfather , as a matter of course . |
| 16 | She knew that her eldest son was involved in all manner of criminal activities , that he was thought of as a kind of mobster . |
| 17 | He sent Richard on ahead while he travelled south through Berry , where once again his eldest son was making heavy weather of the task assigned to him . |
| 18 | The companion print , ‘ Temperance Enjoying a Frugal Meal ’ , depicts the King and Queen as mean as their eldest son was spend-thrift . |
| 19 | Rostov now knew that Burun 's eldest son was called Jotan , and that he was married to a grand-daughter of the Kha-Khan . |
| 20 | Burun 's eldest son was a tall rangy man with a lot of muscle and sinew . |
| 21 | His eldest son was the scholar Sir Andrew Baynton ( 1515/16–1564 , q.v. ) , a pupil of the court tutor John Palsgrave [ q.v. ] and , like three other sons , a Wiltshire MP . |
| 22 | Her eldest son was killed in an air raid on Liverpool in 1941 , the second died in Australia in 1973 , the third ( aged nine months ) in 1909 , and two of her daughters in 1948 and 1967 respectively . |
| 23 | In the patrilineal extended families of the Nambudiri landlord aristocrats only the eldest son was allowed to marry with full Vedic rites so as to produce legitimate children . |