Example sentences of "be [pron] first wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is your first wife dead. ? ’ |
| 2 | Butchers and er then there was the butchers and that was on the corner of and er and and then cross over there towards Street you 've got the stores , then you come the , the er drapers , then er Tommy the butcher who was my first wife 's uncle and then you come to a shop which was owned by one or two people , which was a sort of er general store and then my mother-in-law 's shop a cook 's which was |
| 3 | The progenitress of the Stewart line with Robert was his first wife , Elizabeth Mure of Rowallan , a member of another ancient Ayrshire family . |
| 4 | Perhaps she was his first wife . |
| 5 | Well Sir Marquess across the road it was his first wife who died of a brain tumour and left him with three daughters , as we know . |