Example sentences of "[verb] by his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | has children which he has by his first wife , in my view and in the view of the great majority of people in this country |
| 2 | Robinson died in February 1680 and was succeeded by his second son John ( born 1660 ) . |
| 3 | Such similarities would not have surprised the great anatomist Cajal , who , overwhelmed by his first view of the insect optic lobe , wrote : |
| 4 | A headhunter for ten years , Kinnaird has just been commissioned by his first female client , which speaks volumes . |
| 5 | Jacob reveals by his first words to Esau that he belongs still to the world of their stiff courtesy , and not yet to that of his brother 's gay abandon . |
| 6 | But the difference is that for him , advertising was simply a means to an end — part of his overall game-plan , and one that he always planned to abandon by his thirty-fifth birthday . |
| 7 | The relationship between father and son was always strained and the child insisted on having himself called by his second name , Lawrence , from quite an early age . |
| 8 | If the whole business was so easily explained , why had she been so affected by his first mention of it ? |
| 9 | I hope that my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary will seize the opportunity provided by his next meeting with his Community colleagues — which I believe will take place very shortly — to reappraise the position , and to see whether the Governments of the Community could now decide to recognise Croatia and to tell the Yugoslavian federal Government that they can no longer be recognised as the legitimate Government of former federal territory . |
| 10 | Lean 's realist reputation was enlarged by his first Dickens adaptation , Great Expectations ( 1946 ) but , by the time he came to film the extraordinary expressionist opening to Oliver Twist ( 1948 ) , questions were being asked . |
| 11 | Angel tools around London in a black cab , getting into scrapes and surviving by his first rule of life : ‘ It 's better to be lucky than good ’ . |
| 12 | He continued in that post under her four successors , assisted by his second wife as a lady of the household , declaring his belief in Anne 's adultery and in 1539 threatening to disinherit his son for failing in attentions to Thomas Cromwell [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | Fortified by his second election victory Adenauer adhered to his policies , which continued to pay dividends . |
| 14 | He was now in India , and judging by his last letter he appeared to be enjoying life out there . |
| 15 | It was obvious that he would love to have had a family , and this has been amply confirmed by his second wife . |
| 16 | Though outwardly quiet and unassuming , he had a steely determination and a passion for mountains fired by his first visit to Corsica with Mr. Stanley 's School party in 1964 . |
| 17 | He is survived by his second wife , Jenny , and by a son and daughter from his first marriage . |
| 18 | Asimov is survived by his second wife , Janet , and by two children from his first marriage . |
| 19 | He died in 1557 , and was buried in St Margaret 's churchyard on 9 August ; his first wife Ann had been interred there on 9 December 1552 , and he was survived by his second wife Ellen . |
| 20 | He was survived by his second wife , Hannah , and two sons . |
| 21 | His own estates lay mainly in Northamptonshire , but his marriage to the Scales heiress had brought him a group of manors in East Anglia , a regional connection maintained by his second marriage , to Mary Fitzlewis . |
| 22 | His own estates lay mainly in Northamptonshire , but his marriage to the Scales heiress had brought him a group of manors in East Anglia , a regional connection maintained by his second marriage , to Mary Fitzlewis . |