Example sentences of "by his [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By his 60th birthday in January , 1978 , the personality cult was in full flower . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Her father was very rich and very proud , with only one child , Miss Havisham , by his first wife . |
| 4 | By his first wife , Sarah Ashe , who died in 1662 , he had a son , who succeeded to the baronetcy , and a daughter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | John had at least four sons and three daughters , probably all by his first wife . |
| 9 | Hart was twice married , having two daughters by his first wife and a son and daughter by his second , whose forenames were Susan Ellen . |
| 10 | His only children were a daughter , Lois , who survived him , and a son , Stanley Robert , who lived but a few days : both were by his first wife . |
| 11 | Samuel 's father left the whole of the family property to another son , by his first wife , observing that Samuel ‘ had brains enough to work his own way ’ . |
| 12 | He had one daughter , Elizabeth , by his first wife , and married secondly ( after 1859 ) a widow , Hannah White , by whom he had no children . |
| 13 | Malcolm 's oldest son ( by his first wife ) , Duncan , had lived in England probably for twenty years , and was associated with Anglo-Norman culture ; there was almost certainly a reaction also against Margaret ( who died within a week ) , her sons , whom Donald exiled , and English immigrants . |
| 14 | By his first wife he had three sons and three daughters . |
| 15 | By his first wife he had a son , Richard . |
| 16 | , Sir John , first baronet ( 1603–1701 ) , MP , was born in October 1603 in Ashwellthorpe , Norfolk , the first son of Sir Thomas Holland of Quidenham , by his first wife Mary Knyvett . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | Creina was the step daughter of Mrs Foster 's husband by his first wife . |
| 19 | Martin has two children by his first wife . |
| 20 | ‘ In all secular matters I am a feminist , ’ says the bishop , who is widowed and remarried , with three daughters by his first wife . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A member of the German Wire Company is conducting a line test on one of the telephones , and the Turkish interpreter , a young , olive-skinned Lance-Corporal with only two of his eighteen months ' national service remaining , and known to all by his first name of Ercan because his surname is unpronounceable in English , is standing near the entrance drinking coffee and smoking a foul-smelling cigarette . |
| 23 | The husband was called Jack , and everyone called him by his first name , but for some reason one always called his wife Mrs Thwaites , although we all knew her Christian name was Margaret . |
| 24 | She slipped , without appearing to notice it , into addressing Derek by his first name and , after some initial awkwardness , he reciprocated . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Amiss speculated about why she felt entitled to call him by his first name . |
| 27 | Ms Hurst knows the boy who owes his life to her kindness simply by his first name , Berend , because of the rules of anonymity governing marrow donations . |
| 28 | He has a daughter of 23 by his first marriage and is happily married to his second wife Jenny . |
| 29 | His daughter by his first marriage , Isabel , 38 , and his brother , Teddy , 64 , are environmentalists . |
| 30 | Paul worked it out that she must be one of Dr Heatherton 's daughters by his first marriage . |