Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] first wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Blankety Blank star , who married the ex-barmaid 17 years his junior after his first wife Meg died from cancer , recorded the interview for Radio 4 's In The Psychiatrist 's Chair just a week before he died of a heart attack in June . |
| 2 | about their first wife . |
| 3 | Then he said : ‘ Actually , as I suppose you know , I got rid of my first wife on to Walter . ’ |
| 4 | If Pound had attended to Thomas Hardy 's marriage to Florence Emily Dugdale within two years of the death of his first wife , Emma , there can be little doubt that this is the verdict he would have passed on the transaction . |
| 5 | In 4 BC Antipater , son of his first wife Doris , was also executed shortly before Herod 's own death in the same year . |
| 6 | Nor did he ever speak of his first wife , her mother . |
| 7 | He took it out on Scarlet in the same way as he avenged himself on her for the pressures at work and the demands of his first wife . |
| 8 | She had somehow found it difficult to defend Brian against the accusations of his first wife , who held that he was inept and ineffectual in the field of human relationships . |
| 9 | On 11 June 1787 he married Friedericke Kottewski ( the fate of his first wife is unknown ) . |
| 10 | Curwen 's interest in agriculture probably dated from a long journey through Europe following the death of his first wife in 1778 . |
| 11 | On 16 June 1927 , after the death of his first wife , he married Marie Theresa Laura , daughter of Thomas William Moore of London , theatrical manager and co-founder of the Moore and Burgess Minstrels . |
| 12 | He set up in the West End of London in 1912 , following the death of his first wife and only daughter , having realized that property deals yielded far better returns in the metropolis than in the provinces . |
| 13 | ( During the lifetime of his first wife he had also had estate responsibilities at Banbury in Oxfordshire and Kirtling in Cambridgeshire . ) |
| 14 | Nothing is known of his first wife whom he married c .1730 , but they had two daughters . |
| 15 | Li Shai Tung woke , drenched in sweat , the dream of his first wife , Lin Yua and that dreadful night so clear that , for a moment , he thought the banging on the doors a part of it . |
| 16 | John-William had come across Mr Moon several times in Leeds and Manchester , had found him to be a decent fellow , and received a strong impression that for the sake of his children — offspring of his first wife long deceased — he would be glad to get back into society again . |
| 17 | In the picture my father was holding a portrait-sized photograph of his first wife , Eric 's mother , and she was the only one who was smiling . |
| 18 | It was at a time when Joyce had brought proceedings for divorce against his first wife , an action which ended in the dissolution of the marriage in 1936 . |
| 19 | Throughout his days at Chelsea , Gallacher had been contesting a long and painful divorce case with his first wife . |
| 20 | But when Brian goes to see them he goes with his first wife , who they call Granny . |
| 21 | He walked free from court after after it was revealed that a detective in the case was sleeping with his first wife . |
| 22 | The very first time I met him , we lunched in downtown Barcelona with his first wife , Susy . |
| 23 | Joyce was no longer living with his first wife . |
| 24 | There is a fine monumental effigy of him with his first wife in the church in Charlton , where he was buried 25 July 1598 . |
| 25 | He had four children with his first wife , Frances , and a fifth with his second wife , Barbara . |
| 26 | ‘ I know that Paheri stayed with your first wife , and that your second son was lost when the northern empire collapsed . ’ |
| 27 | Bute died at Cardiff Castle 18 March 1848 and was buried alongside his first wife at Kirtling in Cambridgeshire . |
| 28 | His heart was buried in his first wife 's grave in Stinsford churchyard , beneath the tombstone he had himself designed to accommodate both their names . |
| 29 | One reason given for Cruise 's divorce from his first wife , 39-year-old actress Mimi Rogers , in January 1990 , was their inability to have children . |
| 30 | She was so very different from his first wife , foully murdered during the old Cold War years in Estonia on the Baltic . |