Example sentences of "['s] marriage to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amanieu VII 's marriage to Rose de Bourg brought with it important landed possessions around Bourg and Blaye ; his daughter Mathe married Renaud de Pons , lord of Bergerac , in 1314 , and was to give the Albret a significant foothold on the borders of Périgord ; while Amanieu 's son , Bérard I ( d. 1346 ) who was lord of Vayres and Vertheuil in the Entre-deux-Mers , acquired the castles and lordships of Langoiran and Podensac for his cadet son Amanieu through the latter 's marriage to Mabille d'Escossan in 1345 . |
| 2 | Most of the daughters ( except Rose , who lost an eye ) soon married , but Minnie 's marriage to Abe Greenbaum came to an abrupt end when she did a ‘ bunk with Claud ’ — a doctor she met on a visit to London . |
| 3 | Outside Flanders , Robert 's sister 's marriage to Roger of Sicily was a mark of his new position in the world ; like Louis VI 's sister 's marriage to Bohemond of Antioch , it stretched French kinship connections into the new Norman colonies , ensuring that travellers from the homeland would find a welcome in those distant parts . |
| 4 | Amanieu VII 's marriage to Rose de Bourg brought with it important landed possessions around Bourg and Blaye ; his daughter Mathe married Renaud de Pons , lord of Bergerac , in 1314 , and was to give the Albret a significant foothold on the borders of Périgord ; while Amanieu 's son , Bérard I ( d. 1346 ) who was lord of Vayres and Vertheuil in the Entre-deux-Mers , acquired the castles and lordships of Langoiran and Podensac for his cadet son Amanieu through the latter 's marriage to Mabille d'Escossan in 1345 . |
| 5 | TENNIS ace John McEnroe 's marriage to Tatum O'Neal looked well and truly over yesterday . |
| 6 | No , she could not confirm the year of Eleanor Darcy 's marriage to Bernard . |
| 7 | C adds to the 1017 entry that the exiled ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , which could imply that the original was written before this happened ; but it should be noted that the final sentence of the same annal , on Cnut 's marriage to Emma before 1 August , comes after the notice of Eadric of Mercia 's execution , which Florence of Worcester says happened at Christmas ; if so , the sentence on the marriage looks like a relatively late addition . |
| 8 | There was a real bond of friendship and understanding between many of the great churchmen of this age and leading warriors ; it would be a nice point to decide whether the happiness of St Margaret 's marriage to King Malcolm of Scotland ( see p. 210 ) was more or less remarkable than the depth of St Anselm 's friendship with Hugh of Avranches , the first earl of Chester , the savage hammer of the Welsh . |
| 9 | There is also Christian — another of Don 's children , who lives in Copenhagen and was born , by another woman , after the musician 's marriage to Moki . |
| 10 | The amazing scene took place in September 1989 , on the eve of Diana 's brother Charles 's marriage to Victoria Lockwood . |
| 11 | Queen Victoria had been overjoyed at her son the Prince of Wales 's marriage to Alexandra , because of the increasing scandal of the Prince 's bed-hopping and association with women of loose morals . |
| 12 | However , Lambarde 's marriage to Sylvestre was not to last much longer than his first , for after bearing him four children she died two weeks after the birth of twins on the 1st September 1587 , scarcely 4 years after marrying him . |
| 13 | MOST MOVING DEMISE : Coronation Street 's Ted Sullivan , who died of a brain tumour after less than a year 's marriage to Rita Fairclough . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Philip Augustus 's marriage to Ingeborg of Denmark had been made in the hope that the Danish king , who was pro-Welf would support him against the English . |
| 16 | Similarly , through Lata 's sister 's marriage to Pran you 're led into the world of politics and the subject of land reform , which sounded dull to me at first but became much more interesting as I got into it . ’ |
| 17 | Well , maybe that 's how Dean Martin remembers it all , but Sinatra 's marriage to Ava Gardner had finished in 1952 and he did n't marry Mia Farrow until 1966 . |
| 18 | Rhun is thought to have been a son of Urien of Rheged ( see above , p. 78 ) , and Oswiu 's marriage to Riemmelth may have cemented an alliance with the north British principality of Rheged as another important strand in the web of alliances which conspired to overthrow Eadwine . |
| 19 | If her own marriage had been the result of some matchmaking , so too was Andrew 's marriage to Sarah later that year . |
| 20 | Australia 's Nationwide News agreed to an out-of-court settlement over an article about Jane 's marriage to farmer Alex Makim . |
| 21 | A few months before Margaret 's marriage to Philip of Burgundy Charles V had also gained an important victory in the Iberian peninsula . |
| 22 | What Mulliner 's book does not represent adequately is English church music during the agonizing years 1534–58 which saw Henry VIII 's pseudo-Reformation and dissolution of those musical strongholds , the monasteries ; the Protestant triumph and English liturgy of 1549 ; the Catholic reaction and Mary 's marriage to Philip of Spain ( who brought with him during 1554–5 his ‘ Flemish chapel ’ including Philipp de Monte and his organist Cabezon ) ; and the accession of Elizabeth I. Most of Taverner 's church music was probably written before this period , during the years 1526–30 when he was organist and choirmaster of Cardinal College ( now Christ Church ) , Oxford ; it includes eight Masses , three Magnificats , as well as shorter pieces . |
| 23 | There clearly was quite an extended period between Eadwine 's marriage to Aethelburh — some time before c . |
| 24 | Either way , the westward move of Odo and Robert and the distribution to them of lands in the Rheims area , can be linked with Charles 's marriage to Ermentrude . |
| 25 | She would argue about moving Anna before she had fully recovered — if she recovered — but she would put nothing in the way of Anna 's marriage to Nahum Plunkett . |
| 26 | She was determined the wedding would be one for the young blind girl to remember , even though it was not likely to be attended by any of the Wychwood gipsies who had been at Boz 's marriage to Nahum 's sister . |
| 27 | Oswald 's marriage to Cyneburh , daughter of Cynegils , reveals clearly that relatively cordial relations could prevail between an overlord and a dependant if both stood to gain from the relationship . |
| 28 | And also I could n't do something that might jeopardise Rob 's marriage to Heather . ’ |
| 29 | The estrangement which had accompanied his father 's marriage to Turakina was an old wound , long since healed . |
| 30 | According to Bede , Wulfhere was able to give the Isle of Wight and the territory of the Meonware in the Meon valley of Hampshire opposite the Isle of Wight to Aethelwealh , king of the southern Saxons on the occasion of his baptism in Mercia in the presence of the Mercian king , possibly on the occasion of Aethelwealh 's marriage to Eafe , a Hwiccian Christian princess ( HE IV , 13 ) . |