Example sentences of "a daughter [prep] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through his mother , a daughter of William the Silent , Frederick was also a prince of the House of Orange . |
| 2 | Jotan 's wife Arkhina was reclining on cushions in a nearby alcove , and her mother , a daughter of Arjun the Great , was engaged in conversation with the widow of her cousin , who had been parent to Nogai . |
| 3 | On Gelon 's death in 478 Hiero took over Syracuse , and another brother called Polyzalus married Gelo 's widow Damareta , who was a daughter of Theron the tyrant of Akragas , cp. above . |
| 4 | Peck in his satirical pamphlet on bull-running says , ‘ I am sometimes inclined to believe the Stamfordians and Spaniards are more closely related than most people imagine ’ and Frederick Hackwood in an account of the Tutbury bull-running says it might have originated ‘ in an imitation of Spanish bull-fighting , introduced by John of Gaunt to please his wife Constance , a daughter of Pedro the Cruel of Castile ’ . |
| 5 | A marquis , Ridolfi was related to the Medici family through the marriage of one of his ancestors to a daughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent ; another member of the family , Cosimo Rodolfi , was a leading figure of the 19th century Risorgimento and the founder of Florence 's first savings bank . |