Example sentences of "by [pron] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Her husband , by whom she had two sons , was chaplain of All Souls and lecturer in modern history at several undergraduate colleges .
2 For the next 15 years she was to lead an undistinguished life of secluded domesticity until her marriage to a middle-aged magistrate , by whom she bore three children .
3 He was married in 1631 in London to Maria de Bruijne from Colchester , by whom he had six sons and two daughters .
4 About this time Gough married Joan Wood , of Peplow , by whom he had eight children between 1663 and 1678 .
5 He married Elizabeth Leonie Knowles , by whom he had eleven children ; their two sons both went to Cambridge University before entering the family business , of which they later became directors .
6 He was married three times : to Margaret , daughter of Joseph Gatey of Keswick , Cumberland , in 1869 , who died in 1877 and by whom he had two daughters ; to Jessy Henrietta , daughter of James Stewart of Clapham , Yorkshire , in 1880 , who died in 1904 ; and to Florence Maude , daughter of the Revd Robert Daniel of Osbaldwick , Yorkshire and widow of Colonel J. Lawson Whalley , in 1909 .
7 On 9 July 1877 Matcham married Robinson 's younger daughter Maria , by whom he had two daughters .
8 He married first in early 1600 Catherine , daughter of William Killegrew of Hanworth , Middlesex , by whom he had one daughter and four sons , including Thomas and Henry ; secondly Mary ( died 1679 ) , daughter of Edmund Barber of Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk , and widow of Thomas Newton of Edgefield , Norfolk , by whom he had a son and a daughter .
9 He married , first , in 1677 , Gertrude , daughter of William Morice , Presbyterian MP , who died in 1679 ; and second , in 1691 , Gwen , daughter of Sir Robert Williams , baronet , of Penrhyn , Cornwall , by whom he had one son and three daughters .
10 In 1545 he married Mabel , daughter of Mark Digneley of Wolverton in the Isle of Wight , by whom he had no children , and in 1551 Margaret , daughter of Ralph Daniell of Swaffham , Norfolk , by whom he had one son , ( Sir ) George [ q.v. ] , and two daughters ; the elder , Elizabeth , married Richard Polsted , Wolley , and in 1597 Lord Keeper Sir Thomas Egerton ( later Baron Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley ) .
11 Sir John Markham was married three times ; first to Anne , daughter of Sir George Neville , by whom he had three sons ; secondly to Margery , daughter of Ralph Longford ; and thirdly around 1521 to Anne , widow of Richard Stanhope of Rampton , by whom he had two further sons and three daughters .
12 His first wife was Cicely Cresley , by whom he had three sons : Robert , who became Somerset herald in 1597 , Ralph ( also a surveyor ) , and Christopher .
13 By which I mean two things .
14 Analyses showed that water contained eight parts of oxygen to one of hydrogen ; on Dalton 's assumption , then , the atom of oxygen weighs eight times as much as that of hydrogen , while on the H 2 O formula favoured by Davy and by us it weighs sixteen times as much .
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