Example sentences of "sons and two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only five people specifically mentioned the adverse effect on their work : one daughter said she had had to give up work , and two sons and two daughters-in-law complained of being called away from their work to deal with a problem affecting their mother . |
| 2 | Mrs Thompson , a widow , is survived by two sons and two grandchildren . |
| 3 | He had two sons and two daughters from a previous marriage . |
| 4 | The record shows that the Hobys had four children — two sons and two daughters . |
| 5 | Chapman was devoted to his family of two sons and two daughters . |
| 6 | John Colbround of Bodle Street , in Hurstmonceux , a husbandman , left in 1540 , 14d to his parish church and the cathedral , 4 kine , a mare and a third of his household goods to his wife , 40s to each of his three sons and two daughters , a heifer , ewe and two lambs between them and 20d to the poor . |
| 7 | he has two sons and two daughters , one of whom has recently made him a grandad and , although he confesses to still having the odd game of cricket , his main pastime nowadays is deep-sea fishing . |
| 8 | I 've got four sons and two daughters . |
| 9 | They had two sons and two daughters . |
| 10 | , Richard ( 1597–1670 ) , colonist , religious radical , merchant , and naval administrator , was born in Alford , Lincolnshire , 3 January 1597 , the fourth child and fourth son in the family of six sons and two daughters ( one of whom died young ) of Edward Hutchinson and his wife Susannah . |
| 11 | , Sir John , first baronet ( c. 1615–1680 ) , customs farmer , was born c .1615 , the second in the family of three sons and two daughters of Robert Shaw , vintner , of Southwark , Surrey , and his wife Elizabeth , daughter of John Domelawe , vintner , of London . |
| 12 | , Robert ( 1761–1843 ) , Ulster businessman and radical , was baptized in Belfast 20 March 1761 , the fifth child in the family of five sons and two daughters of Robert Simms , merchant and tanner , and his wife Elizabeth Stevenson of Belfast . |
| 13 | In 1942 he married Eileen Cathcart , MRCOG , daughter of George Gibson Baird , engineer , of Tynemouth , and they had two sons and two daughters . |
| 14 | , Sir Thomas Herbert ( 1887–1975 ) , Welsh scholar , poet , and essayist , was born in Rhyd-ddu , Caernarfonshire , 21 September 1887 , the second child and eldest son in the family of four sons and two daughters of Henry Parry-Williams , schoolmaster at Rhyd-ddu , and his wife Ann Morris . |
| 15 | They had three sons and two daughters ; she died at sea in 1925 . |
| 16 | There were two sons and two daughters from his first marriage , and one son from his second . |
| 17 | , Sir David Lionel , second baronet ( 1851–1925 ) , electrical engineer and pioneer of the motor car , was born 28 June 1851 in Hove , Sussex , the eldest child in the family of two sons and two daughters of Philip Salomons , sheriff of Sussex , and his wife Emma , daughter of Jacob Montefiore of Sydney , New South Wales . |
| 18 | , William ( 1825–1904 ) , engineer and inventor , was born in Limehouse , London , 15 October 1823 , the second son and third in the family of three sons and two daughters of John Samuel Adams , clerk of works to the East India Dock Company , and his wife Jean Walker . |
| 19 | , William ( 1770–1813 ) , architect , was born 25 May 1770 in Dunfermline , Fife , one of the family of three sons and two daughters of Mark Stark of Kirkhill , Lasswade , Midlothian , a Glasgow merchant , who had established spinning and beetling mills , and his wife Margaret Paton . |
| 20 | They had three sons and two daughters . |
| 21 | , Sir Edward ( ante 1495–1544 ) , courtier and patron of reform , was the eldest in the family of three sons and two daughters of John Baynton of Bromham , Wiltshire , and his wife Jane , daughter of Thomas Diggs of Kent . |
| 22 | Three sons and two daughters are mentioned in his will . |
| 23 | , Hertha ( 1854–1923 ) , physicist , was born Phoebe Sarah Marks 28 April 1854 in Portsea near Plymouth , the third child and elder daughter in the family of six sons and two daughters of Levi Marks , clock-maker and jeweller at Petworth , the son of a Jewish Polish refugee , and his wife Alice Theresa , daughter of Joseph Moss , a glass merchant of Portsea . |
| 24 | Best had five sons and two daughters . |
| 25 | , Joseph Dewar ( 1884–1977 ) , operatic tenor and teacher in the tradition of Francesco Lamperti , was born at 16 Bowmont Place , Edinburgh , 5 April 1884 , the second child in the family of two sons and two daughters of Joseph Dewar Hislop , painter and decorator , and his wife Mary White Lunn . |
| 26 | , Henry ( 1876–1947 ) , engineer , was born 3 June 1876 at 36 Pilgrim Street , Tranmere , Liverpool , being the first of three sons and two daughters of Edwin Greenly , railway guard , and his wife Sophia , daughter of John Howard , the owner of a wood-turning factory in Newington Butts , south London . |
| 27 | They had four sons and two daughters . |
| 28 | They had two sons and two daughters . |
| 29 | He and his wife Phillippa had four sons and two daughters . |
| 30 | , Sir Denis John Wolko ( 1892–1967 ) , paediatric surgeon , was born 28 April 1892 in Melbourne , Australia , the eldest in the family of four sons and two daughters of Sylvester Browne , explorer , gold prospector , and farmer , and his wife Anne ( ‘ Nancy ’ ) , daughter of Sir William Foster Stawell , chief justice of Victoria , Australia . |