Example sentences of "by his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By his 60th birthday in January , 1978 , the personality cult was in full flower . |
| 2 | A member of the German Wire Company is conducting a line test on one of the telephones , and the Turkish interpreter , a young , olive-skinned Lance-Corporal with only two of his eighteen months ' national service remaining , and known to all by his first name of Ercan because his surname is unpronounceable in English , is standing near the entrance drinking coffee and smoking a foul-smelling cigarette . |
| 3 | Lean 's realist reputation was enlarged by his first Dickens adaptation , Great Expectations ( 1946 ) but , by the time he came to film the extraordinary expressionist opening to Oliver Twist ( 1948 ) , questions were being asked . |
| 4 | Jacob reveals by his first words to Esau that he belongs still to the world of their stiff courtesy , and not yet to that of his brother 's gay abandon . |
| 5 | If the whole business was so easily explained , why had she been so affected by his first mention of it ? |
| 6 | He has a daughter of 23 by his first marriage and is happily married to his second wife Jenny . |
| 7 | John 's sons by his first and second wives were contemporaries of Robert Burns and his brother Gilbert . |
| 8 | The husband was called Jack , and everyone called him by his first name , but for some reason one always called his wife Mrs Thwaites , although we all knew her Christian name was Margaret . |
| 9 | His daughter by his first marriage , Isabel , 38 , and his brother , Teddy , 64 , are environmentalists . |
| 10 | Paul worked it out that she must be one of Dr Heatherton 's daughters by his first marriage . |
| 11 | Come the following night , I was sitting at home with Caroline ( Nigel 's daughter by his first marriage , the wife of the ‘ moving ’ John , who had not long returned to Denmark ) . |
| 12 | Mr Smith has been married twice and Andrew is his son by his first marriage . |
| 13 | Mr Smith has been married twice and Andrew is his son by his first marriage . |
| 14 | It mentioned that he lived with his mother , Lady Ursula Berowne , and his second wife in one of the few extant houses built by Sir John Soane and that he had one child by his first marriage , 24-year-old Sarah Berowne , who was active in left-wing politics and who was thought to be estranged from her father . |
| 15 | Ginny was now living on a part-time basis with David , Leo 's son by his first marriage ; Leo hoped that Ginny and David would marry and produce a host of little Quests for him to dote on in his old age . |
| 16 | Angel tools around London in a black cab , getting into scrapes and surviving by his first rule of life : ‘ It 's better to be lucky than good ’ . |
| 17 | Such similarities would not have surprised the great anatomist Cajal , who , overwhelmed by his first view of the insect optic lobe , wrote : |
| 18 | Marjory , his daughter by his first wife , was persuaded to agree that if the king died without a son the crown should pass to his brother Edward ; but to be on the safe side a marriage was arranged between Marjory and Walter , the hereditary High Steward , who in spite of his youth had distinguished himself at Bannockburn and become one of Bruce 's most trusted lieutenants . |
| 19 | Though outwardly quiet and unassuming , he had a steely determination and a passion for mountains fired by his first visit to Corsica with Mr. Stanley 's School party in 1964 . |
| 20 | When he stepped out , he was astonished by his first view of the place . |
| 21 | Her father was very rich and very proud , with only one child , Miss Havisham , by his first wife . |
| 22 | She slipped , without appearing to notice it , into addressing Derek by his first name and , after some initial awkwardness , he reciprocated . |
| 23 | By his first wife , Sarah Ashe , who died in 1662 , he had a son , who succeeded to the baronetcy , and a daughter . |
| 24 | His only surviving issue at the time of his death was Joan , his daughter by his first wife , who was the wife of Eon la Zouche . |
| 25 | After she died the heart-broken husband gave Woodford Lodge , Northamptonshire , where Harriett had spent her married life , to his son by his first wife , and went to live with Wellington . |
| 26 | His daughter by his first wife , and only child , married into the Hulton family of Lancashire , which accounts for the survival of his papers in the County Record Office at Preston and in the British Library . |
| 27 | John had at least four sons and three daughters , probably all by his first wife . |
| 28 | By his first , brief marriage in 1727 to Sarah Parkes ( died 1729 ) , a local Quaker heiress , Sampson Lloyd II had one son . |
| 29 | Hart was twice married , having two daughters by his first wife and a son and daughter by his second , whose forenames were Susan Ellen . |
| 30 | The youngest son by his first marriage , Thomas , survived to inherit the major part of the estate . |