Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [num ord] wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know what happened to the front entrance , but there was a basement underneath there and my first wife was dancing in Harvey Martin 's dance hall underneath , her pal and herself she , they 'd gone to this dance it was a dancing lesson on a Saturday night it was famous in those days Harvey Martin 's dance class er yes I |
| 2 | Heini and his fifth wife , Carmen — Tita to her friends — are thus free to concentrate on his art collection , the world 's most valuable in private hands , if you exclude those of the Queen and of Prince Hans Adam of Liechtenstein . |
| 3 | So was his position as heir presumptive , a necessary acknowledgement in order to remove any doubt created by the fact that he was the son of a divorced father and his second wife . |
| 4 | Bob and his second wife Beryl , 49 , say they 'd never sell their dream house — estimated to be worth £500,000 . |
| 5 | The 60,000-acre estate is home to the duke , 37 , and his second wife , former interior designer Virginia Wynne-Williams . |
| 6 | These telephone calls provoke long and furious rows between Mr Smith and his second wife . |
| 7 | These telephone calls provoke long and furious rows between Mr Smith and his second wife . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In all , he 's given over $1 billion to charity , retaining about $1.4 billion for himself , his daughter and his second wife Leonore . |
| 10 | One or two , like his solicitor and his second wife 's psychiatrist , took their leave after no more than 90 minutes . |
| 11 | Burun was sitting on a chest which had been used to carry the food , and his second wife , Kiku , whom men called the Regal Lily , was standing behind him dressing his hair while he admired himself in a hand-held mirror . |
| 12 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 13 | , Henry George Bonavia- ( 1847–1917 ) , founder of Trinity College of Music , London , was born 30 June 1847 in Valetta , Malta , the eldest surviving son of William Hunt , former private secretary to the bishop of Jerusalem , and his second wife , Marietta Bonavia , daughter of a Maltese doctor of Italian extraction . |
| 14 | , Charles Eamer ( 1837–1907 ) , artist in stained glass and church decoration , was born 29 June 1837 at Ovingdean Hall , Sussex , the fifth son and seventh and last child of Nathaniel Kemp , JP who died when his son was six , and his second wife Augusta Caroline , the daughter of Sir John Eamer , a former lord mayor of London . |
| 15 | At some stage he married again and his second wife predeceased him . |
| 16 | , Johann Christian ( 1735–1782 ) , composer , was born 5 September 1735 in Leipzig , the sixth and youngest son and the eleventh of the thirteen children of Johann Sebastian Bach and his second wife Anna Magdalena , daughter of Johann Caspar Wilcke , court trumpeter . |
| 17 | , Emily Wilding ( 1872–1913 ) , feminist , was born in Blackheath , London , 11 October 1872 , the second of three children and elder daughter of Charles Davison , businessman , and his second wife Margaret Caisley , who had been a housekeeper before marriage . |
| 18 | , ( Edward ) Hesketh ( Gibbons ) ( 1887–1964 ) , actor and biographer , was born 20 February 1887 in Hawford , Worcestershire , the second of two sons and four children of Thomas Henry Gibbons Pearson , gentleman farmer , churchwarden , and amateur sportsman , and his second wife Amy Mary Constance , eldest daughter of George Hesketh Biggs , vicar of Ettington . |
| 19 | , Ernest William ( 1864–1919 ) , craftsman and architect , was born in Leicester , 21 December 1864 , the fourth child and second son in the family of three sons and four daughters of Josiah Gimson , iron-founder , engineer , and industrial entrepreneur , who established the Vulcan works in Leicester , and his second wife Sarah Ansell . |
| 20 | , Sampson ( 1699–1779 ) , founder of Lloyds Bank , was born in Birmingham 15 July 1699 , the second son and second child in the family of two sons and one daughter of Sampson Lloyd , a Quaker ironmonger , and his second wife Mary ( sister of Sir Ambrose Crowley , q.v. ) , daughter of Ambrose Crowley of Stourbridge , another Quaker ironmonger and nailer . |
| 21 | , Sidney Arthur Kilworth ( 1922–1943 ) , poet , was born 27 May 1922 in Dartford , Kent , the only child of Captain Reginald Keyes of the Queen 's Own Royal West Kent Regiment , and his second wife Edith , daughter of the Revd Arthur Blackburn , rector of St Paul 's , Bradford . |
| 22 | , James ( 1752–1812 ) , barrister , was born 9 March 1752 in Thetford , Norfolk , the second child and elder son in the family of ten children of James Mingay , surgeon , of Thetford , and his second wife Dorothy , the daughter of William Fuller of Caldecot , Huntingdonshire . |
| 23 | Curwen 's estates lay on the west Cumberland coalfield , and he took a particular interest in the collieries inherited from his father and his second wife , as well as others which he purchased and leased in the area . |
| 24 | , John Edward Courtenay ( 1853–1925 ) , author , was born 6 June 1853 at King Street , Hanley , Staffordshire , the son of Edward Fisher Bodley , commercial traveller and later a wealthy pottery owner , and his second wife Mary Ridgway . |
| 25 | He and his second wife settled in the family house at Stanley Pontlarge , Gloucestershire , and here he resumed his literary programme , writing over forty books , covering canals , railways , motor cars , and many other aspects of engineering history . |
| 26 | , Patrick Henry ( 1879–1916 ) , teacher , journalist , poet , and Irish revolutionary , was born 10 November 1879 in Dublin , the elder son and second of the four children of James Pearse , stone carver , of London , Birmingham , and Dublin , and his second wife Margaret , shop assistant , one of two surviving daughters of Patrick Brady , coal factor , of Dublin . |
| 27 | , Sir John Alexander ( 1871–1949 ) , author and editor of popular works of reference , was born in Alexandria , Dunbartonshire , 27 February 1871 , the second in a family of two sons and one daughter of James Hammerton , clog-maker of Oldham , and his second wife Janet , shopwoman , daughter of Alexander Lang , mason . |
| 28 | , Mary ( 1707–1778 ) , poet , was born in Oxford 8 March 1707 , the second of four children of Oliver Jones , cooper of St Aldates , Oxford , and his second wife , who was one of the daughters , probably Mary ( born 1670 ) , of Thomas Penn , a yeoman of South Newington near Banbury . |
| 29 | , John ( 1743–1821 ) , instrument-maker , was born in Dearham , Cumberland , late June 1743 ( he was baptized 1 July ) , the second of four children ( the eldest of whom predeceased him ) and elder son of Jonathan Cuthbertson , an innkeeper and yeoman , and his second wife Mary Fisher . |
| 30 | Danish-born surgeon and botanist , and his second wife Sophia Colling . |