Example sentences of "[noun sg] by his first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It mentioned that he lived with his mother , Lady Ursula Berowne , and his second wife in one of the few extant houses built by Sir John Soane and that he had one child by his first marriage , 24-year-old Sarah Berowne , who was active in left-wing politics and who was thought to be estranged from her father . |
| 2 | The courts had set the sum he should pay for his child by his first marriage at seventeen pounds fifty . |
| 3 | Creina was the step daughter of Mrs Foster 's husband by his first wife . |
| 4 | It 's significant that you sit here in this house , so comfortably , calling my father by his first name while I have n't seen him since I was eight . ’ |
| 5 | His daughter by his first marriage , Isabel , 38 , and his brother , Teddy , 64 , are environmentalists . |
| 6 | Come the following night , I was sitting at home with Caroline ( Nigel 's daughter by his first marriage , the wife of the ‘ moving ’ John , who had not long returned to Denmark ) . |
| 7 | Marjory , his daughter by his first wife , was persuaded to agree that if the king died without a son the crown should pass to his brother Edward ; but to be on the safe side a marriage was arranged between Marjory and Walter , the hereditary High Steward , who in spite of his youth had distinguished himself at Bannockburn and become one of Bruce 's most trusted lieutenants . |
| 8 | His only surviving issue at the time of his death was Joan , his daughter by his first wife , who was the wife of Eon la Zouche . |
| 9 | His daughter by his first wife , and only child , married into the Hulton family of Lancashire , which accounts for the survival of his papers in the County Record Office at Preston and in the British Library . |
| 10 | Before he could come up with a satisfactory formulation they were joined by Georgina , the chairman 's daughter by his first marriage . |
| 11 | Oh yes , we 'd check them , erm I have n't got any this Sunday , Lisa Marie that 's his eldest daughter by his first wife . |
| 12 | Mr Smith has been married twice and Andrew is his son by his first marriage . |
| 13 | Mr Smith has been married twice and Andrew is his son by his first marriage . |
| 14 | Ginny was now living on a part-time basis with David , Leo 's son by his first marriage ; Leo hoped that Ginny and David would marry and produce a host of little Quests for him to dote on in his old age . |
| 15 | After she died the heart-broken husband gave Woodford Lodge , Northamptonshire , where Harriett had spent her married life , to his son by his first wife , and went to live with Wellington . |
| 16 | The youngest son by his first marriage , Thomas , survived to inherit the major part of the estate . |
| 17 | In 1733 James Barclay , David Barclay 's son by his first marriage , married Sally Freame , Priscilla Barclay 's sister ( thus his step-aunt ) and joined the partnership , which became Freame & Barclay , until his death in 1766 . |
| 18 | Florence reports under 1016 that English counsellors decided upon the exile of the much-respected ætheling Eadwig , Æthelred 's only surviving son by his first consort , and that Cnut , exulting at their abandonment of him , plotted his murder by promising honours , dignities and favour to the nobleman Æthelweard in return for Eadwig 's head . |