Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] first 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 | He and his first wife , Judith , who died last year , had four children . |
| 3 | Mum used add , ‘ and his first wife was hardly cold . ’ |
| 4 | Despite its beautiful Cornish setting Lady Tressilian 's house party is doomed to failure for her guests consist of an extraordinary triangle — her nephew , Nevile Strange , his second wife , the beautiful Kay , and his first wife Audrey . |
| 5 | Usually considered to be a type of Danish ELF , although the story of their origin sets them apart , for they are believed to be the descendants of Adam and his first wife , Lilith . |
| 6 | He lost his only son Jay , 26 , in an air crash and his first wife Connie drowned in Antigua . |
| 7 | , Francis ( 1741–1789 ) , architect , was born in 1741 , the elder son of William Hiorne , mason and architect of Warwick , and his first wife Mary Duncalfe . |
| 8 | Sparke enjoyed considerable financial success ( his will indicates that he bought a gentleman 's estate and his first wife was connected to the Warwickshire gentry ) and political influence , which came from publishing works no other printer would touch . |
| 9 | In 1765 Wright painted a fine portrait of Burdett and his first wife Hannah which hangs in the Narodnie Galerie , Prague . |
| 10 | Whitaker died 15 April 1654 and was buried in St Giles , where memorials to him and his first wife were erected . |
| 11 | , Edward ( 1649/51–1710 ) , politician and friend of John Locke [ q.v. ] , was born in either 1649 or , more probably , 1651 , the only son of Edward Clarke , gentleman , of Chipley , near Taunton , Somerset , and his first wife Ann , daughter of Mark Knight of Buckinghamshire . |
| 12 | , Sir Henry O'neal de Hane ( 1896–1930 ) , land- and water-speed record holder , was born in Baltimore , Maryland , 22 December 1896 , the only child of Charles William Segrave , Anglo-Irish landowner of county Wicklow , later county Tipperary , and his first wife Mary Lucy , daughter of James Kemp Harwood , officer in the US navy ; she died in 1898 . |
| 13 | , Alexander ( 1800–1882 ) , barrister and newspaper proprietor , was born in Edinburgh 15 October 1800 , the second of three sons , one of whom died young , and fifth of nine children of James Alexander Haldane [ q.v. ] , religious writer , and his first wife Mary , daughter of Major Alexander Joass of Culleonard , Banffshire . |
| 14 | , John ( 1585–1654 ) , dean of Winchester , was born in Seaton , Angus , 25 June 1585 , the sixth of eight sons and the eighth of twelve children of Sir Peter Young [ q.v. ] , tutor to James VI of Scotland , and his first wife Elizabeth Gibb . |
| 15 | , ( Alfred ) Dillwyn ( 1884–1943 ) , classical scholar and cryptographer , was born 23 July 1884 in Oxford , the fourth of six children ( four sons and two daughters ) of the Revd Edmund Arbuthnott Knox [ q.v. ] , a tutor at Merton College ( later bishop of Manchester ) and his first wife , Ellen Penelope , daughter of Thomas Valpy French , bishop of Lahore . |
| 16 | , Charles Petrie ( 1817–1902 ) , first archbishop of Glasgow in the restored Catholic hierarchy of Scotland , was born in York 7 November 1817 , the fifth of nine children and third of five sons of John Lewis Eyre , later founder of the South Western Railway Company , and his first wife Sarah Parker ( died 1825 ) . |
| 17 | , Edward ( 1702–1768 ) , discoverer of aspirin , was born in Lacey Green , Princes Risborough , and baptized 5 November 1702 , the only son of Edward Stone , yeoman , and his first wife , Elizabeth Reynolds . |
| 18 | , Sir William ( 1520–1600 ) , politician and administrator , was born 30 January 1520 , the fifth but only surviving son of ( Sir ) Christopher More , Exchequer official , who had purchased Loseley , near Guildford , Surrey , by 1509 , and his first wife Margaret , daughter of Walter Mugge of Guildford ; five of his nine sisters lived to marry . |
| 19 | He and his first wife lived on Cressy until 1951 . |
| 20 | , Sir John ( 1582–1637 ) , landed gentleman and barrister , was born at Lowther 4 February and baptized in Lowther church 24 February 1582 , the second ( but first surviving ) son in the family of eight sons and one daughter of Sir Christopher Lowther of Lowther and his first wife Eleanor , daughter of William Musgrave esquire of Hayton , Cumberland . |
| 21 | , Roger ( 1819–1869 ) , artist , photographer , and barrister , was born 28 March 1819 at Crimble Hall , near Bury , Lancashire , the third of four brothers and the fourth of seven children of John Fenton , banker and MP for Rochdale , and his first wife , Elizabeth Aipedaile . |
| 22 | His father had fought in the Napoleonic wars , and his first wife and three children had been drowned in the Bay of Biscay . |
| 23 | , Johann Samuel ( 1779–1830 ) , naturalist , geologist , and museum curator , was born 26 February 1779 in Danzig ( Gdansk , Poland ) , the only son of Johann Beniamin Müller and his first wife Eleonor Lehman . |
| 24 | , Samuel ( 1765–1841 ) , dean of Christ Church , Oxford , was born in Westminster 20 September 1765 , the eldest in the family of two daughters and five sons ( one of whom died young ) of Samuel Smith , headmaster of Westminster School from 1764 to 1788 , and his first wife Anna Jackson . |
| 25 | , Sir Francis ( c. 1534–1608 ) , Cornish landowner and county office-holder , was the elder son of Thomas Godolphin and his first wife Katherine , daughter of Edmund Bonython . |
| 26 | , George ( 1801–1847 ) , Gold Coast administrator , was born in Keith , Banffshire , 24 February 1801 , the second son and fifth child in the family of four daughters and three sons of the Revd James Maclean and his first wife Elizabeth Tod . |
| 27 | , George ( 1797–1864 ) , architect , was born in Cartmel , Lancashire , 3 May 1797 , the second of the three sons and third of the seven children of Francis Webster , mason , builder , and architect of Kendal , Westmorland , and his first wife Janet , daughter of George Slater , yeoman of Kirkby Lonsdale in the same county . |
| 28 | Yussuf could n't afford it and his first wife would n't allow it . |
| 29 | He is not a homosexual , he is married to a Swedish woman , the sister of a count , and his first wife was also devoted to him , she died . |
| 30 | But his first wife , Eileen Arbuthnot , was not buried there . |