Example sentences of "of [pron] [num ord] marriage " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fourteen years Eleanor had not produced an heir to his kingdom , but in the first six years of her second marriage she had had five children and four of them were boys : William , who died in 1156 , Henry , Richard and Geoffrey . |
| 2 | At the time of her second marriage she was in love with Henry Pierce , an attorney 's clerk and associate of her first husband . |
| 3 | His second wife was Maud , the daughter of William Pantulf [ q.v. ] , who by the time of her second marriage to Walter ( in 1282 or 1283 ) was sole heiress to the Shropshire barony of Wem . |
| 4 | This kept her in Scotland cut off from the son of her first marriage and the daughter of the second in France , both of whom she clearly loved . |
| 5 | Constanze was only too happy to recall the days of her first marriage , and she pointed out Mozart 's own favourite numbers from the operas , including Cherubino 's ‘ Non so più ’ and the sextet ‘ Riconosci a questo amplesso ’ from Figaro ; ‘ Di scrivermi ’ , the second quintet from Così fan tutte ; and the Commendatore 's music from Don Giovanni . |
| 6 | You must be especially proud today , because she liked you so much that despite all the difficulties of her first marriage , when she met you she decided to try it again . |
| 7 | During a period of extreme emotional distress , the ending of her first marriage , she became interested in the work of Philip Guston. these paintings ‘ Beggar ’ ( 1982 ) , along with Guston 's later work , are included in a period of art referred to as ‘ Bad Paintings ’ . |
| 8 | Cameron talked with Minerva , who was being magnanimously tolerant of her husband 's much-publicised affair with Nina Kenyon , and with Anne , who was well into the tertiary stage of her fourth marriage ( to Didier Bishopric , a society restaurateur ) and just back from the Betty Ford clinic after a spell of amphetamine dependency . |
| 9 | Yesterday , he said he ‘ forgot ’ about the trip which he made shortly after the break-up of his second marriage to Dr Who actress Janet Fielding . |
| 10 | It was unpleasantly snide about the circumstances of his second marriage . |
| 11 | The seven years of his second marriage were a stable and satisfying period for Howard and the time when he largely established himself as a country gentleman . |
| 12 | Their attempts to acquire Bigorre and Comminges were effectively blocked by the counts of Foix , but Bernard VI of Armagnac 's inheritance of the town and comté of Rodez in 1304 ( as a result of his second marriage to Cécile , daughter of Henri , count of Rodez ) was a valuable acquisition . |
| 13 | Well , according to the late Mrs Howard , we got this much from her at least , there is some doubt about the validity of his second marriage . |
| 14 | But if she were still alive at the time of his second marriage , nearly twenty years later , then it was bigamous . ’ |
| 15 | My grandfather , George Hey ( 1854–1916 ) , worked in a Thurlstone cloth mill as a dresser or finisher when he was a young man , but on the occasion of his second marriage in 1900 he gave his occupation as waggoner . |
| 16 | From the ordeal of his first marriage to the late happiness of the second , the book locks , at one level , into a recital of misfortunes and a medical record . |
| 17 | His second wife also predeceased him , as did one of the two sons of his first marriage . |
| 18 | The King married Elizabeth of York , the eldest daughter of Edward IV 's children , and he built , in 1501 , the Manor beside the River Thames at ‘ Shene ’ which became Richmond Palace where , in due course , the nineteen year old Henry VIII was to spend part of the honeymoon ( 1509 ) of his first marriage . |
| 19 | Commander Fairley saw at once the wisdom of keeping the two children of his first marriage together for the last years of their progress to maturity . |
| 20 | His children have never fully forgiven him and the scandal that surrounded the very public break-up of his first marriage has scarred everyone involved in The Doc 's love-life . |
| 21 | It was through this initiative that Nick finally got to meet his great hero , James Cameron , and after the collapse of his first marriage , he married Cameron 's step-daughter , Sabeita . |
| 22 | On the day of his first marriage , his wife went off to perform in a matinée and Burton listened to the International match . |
| 23 | Joyce was committed to providing for the two daughters of his first marriage , to whom he was a conscientious father , as well as supporting his second wife . |
| 24 | To complicate matters , Sixsmith explained as he rattled his glass at the waiter , his daughter , the product of his first marriage , was an alcoholic . |
| 25 | Of his first marriage nothing is known , but he was described as a widower when he married Ann Sidebotham at St Clement Danes 1 January 1761 , and again when he married Grace Plampin at St Anne 's , Soho , 14 February 1774 . |
| 26 | However , he had a darker side , and his commitment to his work , which often made him oblivious of companions ' feelings , was partly responsible for the failure of his first marriage . |
| 27 | After the failure of his first marriage , in 1958 he married Mollie Bella ( ‘ Diana ’ ) , daughter of George Vincent Sturgeon , schoolmaster , and the niece of Leonard Woolf [ q.v . ] . |
| 28 | Your new commitments will be relevant in working out how much you can afford to pay out , but the law will favour the children of your first family — after all , no one forced you to take on another relationship , and it would be unfair to the children of your first marriage if they suffered because you chose to do so . |