Example sentences of "of [pron] first wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he said : ‘ Actually , as I suppose you know , I got rid of my first wife on to Walter . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In 4 BC Antipater , son of his first wife Doris , was also executed shortly before Herod 's own death in the same year . |
| 4 | Nor did he ever speak of his first wife , her mother . |
| 5 | He took it out on Scarlet in the same way as he avenged himself on her for the pressures at work and the demands of his first wife . |
| 6 | She had somehow found it difficult to defend Brian against the accusations of his first wife , who held that he was inept and ineffectual in the field of human relationships . |
| 7 | On 11 June 1787 he married Friedericke Kottewski ( the fate of his first wife is unknown ) . |
| 8 | Curwen 's interest in agriculture probably dated from a long journey through Europe following the death of his first wife in 1778 . |
| 9 | On 16 June 1927 , after the death of his first wife , he married Marie Theresa Laura , daughter of Thomas William Moore of London , theatrical manager and co-founder of the Moore and Burgess Minstrels . |
| 10 | He set up in the West End of London in 1912 , following the death of his first wife and only daughter , having realized that property deals yielded far better returns in the metropolis than in the provinces . |
| 11 | ( During the lifetime of his first wife he had also had estate responsibilities at Banbury in Oxfordshire and Kirtling in Cambridgeshire . ) |
| 12 | Nothing is known of his first wife whom he married c .1730 , but they had two daughters . |
| 13 | Li Shai Tung woke , drenched in sweat , the dream of his first wife , Lin Yua and that dreadful night so clear that , for a moment , he thought the banging on the doors a part of it . |
| 14 | John-William had come across Mr Moon several times in Leeds and Manchester , had found him to be a decent fellow , and received a strong impression that for the sake of his children — offspring of his first wife long deceased — he would be glad to get back into society again . |
| 15 | In the picture my father was holding a portrait-sized photograph of his first wife , Eric 's mother , and she was the only one who was smiling . |