Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [num ord] wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | If his first wife can not afford to live without benefit support from the rest of us , which is what state benefit is , the government has no money , it takes money out of other families who are struggling to bring their children up to give it to you . |
| 2 | Just as Jennie had been on the sidelines while his first wife was alive , Mary became his mistress almost immediately he went through his second marriage ceremony . |
| 3 | Julia found herself wanting to get to know her better , quite certain by then that whatever there had been between Suvarov and Felicity while his first wife was alive it had not been the kind of affair David had assumed . |
| 4 | But she also sensed how deep Hugo 's hurt ran and since his first wife 's death was also connected with the man she told herself it would be tasteless to dwell on it . |
| 5 | He died in Frith Street , at one of various lodgings after his second wife had left him . |
| 6 | After his first wife 's death , Deacon married Caroline Rutt of Islington , Middlesex , 27 November 1866 . |
| 7 | Misfortune struck Sir John when his second wife died ; she received the same treatment as his first spouse . |
| 8 | In fact , Peggy remembered her own mam saying as how there were certain folk , including herself , who believed it were Luther Reynolds ' fault when his second wife died of the fever . |
| 9 | But when his second wife Wendy became ill , incurring extra expenses , that was cut to a nominal five pence a year . |
| 10 | Pugin 's strict rules and principles were upheld in part to counteract the inordinate sadness he had suffered at the age of twenty-two , when his first wife died giving birth to their only daughter . |
| 11 | When his first wife died in 1751 , he went so far as to obtain a licence to marry a certain Hannah Laskey . |
| 12 | Sir John Pryce ( 1698–1761 ) of Newton , Glamorgan , was so distressed when his first wife died that he had the body embalmed and placed next to his bed . |
| 13 | Denis Cannan 's Dear Daddy ( 1976 ) , again , another successful stage comedy , tells of a virtuous middle-aged family man whose life is triumphantly self-organised down to its last petty details — exactly one-third of a bottle of wine at dinner every evening — until the comfortable domestic order he has created in his second marriage turns into an object of irrational despair to those around him ; and when his first wife , ruined by alcohol , abruptly re-enters his world , he is forced to accept a share of deferred responsibility for the wreckage of her life . |
| 14 | Though his first wife remains a shadowy and rather pathetic figure about whom one longs to know more , there is plenty here on the crowded , ramshackle household and its often hand-to-mouth existence constructed entirely around the demands of the workaholic , temperamental sculptor — the hoarded treasures , the art and music which pervaded the house , the much loved but somewhat casually raised children , the constantly changing and eccentric cast of live-in models , nannies , general factotums , portrait sitters , studio visitors , plaster moulders , musicians , friends and members of the press who were usually given short shrift . |
| 15 | ‘ As for the manner of burial , ’ the lawyer said , ‘ it appears that your father wishes to be buried in the same place as his first wife . |
| 16 | Bernard VI , count of Armagnac , had married Isabelle d'Albret ( d. 1294 ) as his first wife , and Amanieu VII d'Albret 's eldest son Bernard-Ezi V ( 1326–59 ) was husband to Mathe d'Armagnac , Bernard VI 's daughter . |
| 17 | As his first wife , June Barry , recalls , Whitaker was at work on another project when a knock at the office door heralded the entrance of Donald Wilson . |
| 18 | James Stephen the elder took Wilberforce 's sister as his second wife and in the next generation James Stephen the younger — the under secretary at the Colonial Office in the crucial emancipation period — married a daughter of John Venn , the rector of Clapham . |
| 19 | In 1885 she married , as his second wife , W. E. Ayrton ( the son of Edward Nugent Ayrton , barrister ) and assisted him in his research on the electric arc . |
| 20 | Increasingly infirm , he married as his second wife his nurse , Florence Ridley , and when she died married her successor , Gladys Murdoch . |
| 21 | The Pennsylvania connection was further strengthened when Alexander Durdin married as his third wife the widow of William Penn , grandson of the colony 's founder . |