Example sentences of "his second [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first major field research was among the Nupe people of Northern Nigeria , and on his second field research period there , 1935-36 , he wrote up a work journal which has never been published . |
| 2 | After his second King George , in 1959 , he had developed tendon trouble and was given nearly a year 's rest by trainer Fulke Walwyn , but if anything he was improving with age , and he had gone through the 1961–2 season unbeaten . |
| 3 | On the night of his second child Kate 's birth , Andrew was on stage 12 miles from the hospital in the comedy Noises Off . |
| 4 | If he trumped with the 6 or 10 , he would be over-trumped and his second trump trick would vanish . |
| 5 | For his second night Harry used his helmet and legs of his flying boots as a pillow , and woke up with uncontrollable shivering . |
| 6 | , James ( 1752–1812 ) , barrister , was born 9 March 1752 in Thetford , Norfolk , the second child and elder son in the family of ten children of James Mingay , surgeon , of Thetford , and his second wife Dorothy , the daughter of William Fuller of Caldecot , Huntingdonshire . |
| 7 | , Donald Malcolm ( 1921–1967 ) , land and water speed record-holder , was born 23 March 1921 at Kingston Hill , Surrey , the only son and younger child of ( Sir ) Malcolm Campbell [ q.v. ] , racing motorist , and his second wife Dorothy Evelyn , daughter of Major William Whittall . |
| 8 | , Charles Thomas ( 1860–1931 ) , cricketer and missionary , was born in Spratton , Northamptonshire , 2 December 1860 , the third of the six sons ( with one daughter ) of Edward Studd , indigo planter in India , later of Tedworth House , Wiltshire , and his second wife Dorothy ( ‘ Dora ’ ) Sophia , daughter of John Thomas , Calcutta merchant , of Bledsoe , Bedfordshire ; there were four children of the first marriage . |
| 9 | In all , he 's given over $1 billion to charity , retaining about $1.4 billion for himself , his daughter and his second wife Leonore . |
| 10 | In 678 Ecgfrith , urged on by his second wife Iurminburg , expelled Wilfrid from his see and divided it in two , with a new bishop in Hexham as well as York . |
| 11 | Blake , now aged 67 , has been well looked after by the KGB and lives in considerable comfort with his second wife Ida and their son Mischa . |
| 12 | , Sidney Arthur Kilworth ( 1922–1943 ) , poet , was born 27 May 1922 in Dartford , Kent , the only child of Captain Reginald Keyes of the Queen 's Own Royal West Kent Regiment , and his second wife Edith , daughter of the Revd Arthur Blackburn , rector of St Paul 's , Bradford . |
| 13 | Despite his business commitments , Mr Branson now spends more and more time with his second wife Joan and two children at home in the village of Kidlington , Oxon , where the garden contains a Balinese pavilion . |
| 14 | By his second wife Jane , daughter of Richard Hardy of Dorset , Elsynge had a further four sons and one daughter . |
| 15 | , Goodwin ( 1653–1704 ) , MP and autobiographer , was born 8 March 1653 , the third and youngest son ( there were also four daughters ) of Philip , fourth Baron Wharton [ q.v. ] and his second wife Jane , daughter of Arthur Goodwin of Winchendon , Buckinghamshire . |
| 16 | , Johann Christian ( 1735–1782 ) , composer , was born 5 September 1735 in Leipzig , the sixth and youngest son and the eleventh of the thirteen children of Johann Sebastian Bach and his second wife Anna Magdalena , daughter of Johann Caspar Wilcke , court trumpeter . |
| 17 | , Sir John , fourth baronet ( c. 1666–1737 ) , patron of the charity-school movement in early eighteenth-century Wales , and , more generally , of the evangelical revival , was born c .1666 ( the evidence of his funerary monument as to his date of birth being demonstrably unreliable ) , the second but first surviving son of Sir Erasmus Philipps , third baronet , of Picton Castle , Pembrokeshire , a Commonwealth commissioner for the propagation of the gospel , and his second wife Catherine , daughter of Edward Darcy of Newhall , Derbyshire . |
| 18 | , Henry ( 1792–1882 ) , surveyor , geologist , and archaeologist , was born at Landguard Fort , Suffolk , 26 April 1792 , the elder son of Andrew MacLauchlan , Board of Ordnance storekeeper , and his second wife Martha Haywood . |
| 19 | , Celia ( 1662–1741 ) , traveller and author , was born 7 June 1662 in Newton Toney , near Salisbury , the daughter of Colonel Nathaniel Fiennes [ q.v. ] ( the second son of William Fiennes , first Viscount Saye and Sele , q.v. ) and his second wife Frances , the daughter of Colonel Richard Whitehead of West Tytherley , Hampshire . |
| 20 | , ( Edward ) Hesketh ( Gibbons ) ( 1887–1964 ) , actor and biographer , was born 20 February 1887 in Hawford , Worcestershire , the second of two sons and four children of Thomas Henry Gibbons Pearson , gentleman farmer , churchwarden , and amateur sportsman , and his second wife Amy Mary Constance , eldest daughter of George Hesketh Biggs , vicar of Ettington . |
| 21 | But when his second wife Wendy became ill , incurring extra expenses , that was cut to a nominal five pence a year . |
| 22 | , Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux ( 1880–1923 ) , politician , diplomat , traveller , and secret agent , was born 3 April 1880 at Highclere Castle , Hampshire , the son of Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert , fourth Earl of Carnarvon [ q.v. ] , secretary of state for the colonies under Lord Derby ( 1866–7 ) and Disraeli ( 1874–8 ) , and lord-lieutenant of Ireland under Lord Salisbury ( 1885–6 ) , and his second wife Elisabeth Catharine ( ‘ Elsie ’ ) , daughter of Henry Howard of Greystoke Castle , Cumberland , his first cousin . |
| 23 | , Ernest William ( 1864–1919 ) , craftsman and architect , was born in Leicester , 21 December 1864 , the fourth child and second son in the family of three sons and four daughters of Josiah Gimson , iron-founder , engineer , and industrial entrepreneur , who established the Vulcan works in Leicester , and his second wife Sarah Ansell . |
| 24 | He had apparently lost his fortune through business failures and was claiming legal aid in an action over his 1990 divorce from his second wife Sarah . |
| 25 | Bob and his second wife Beryl , 49 , say they 'd never sell their dream house — estimated to be worth £500,000 . |
| 26 | He had married his second wife Maud by no later than Michaelmas term 1245 . |
| 27 | Only twenty months later , John married his second wife Jennie . |
| 28 | A touching testament of comic Les Dawson 's love for his second wife Tracey is being broadcast on Sunday . |
| 29 | The comic , who had a history of heart trouble , had become a father for the fourth time only last year , when his second wife Tracey gave birth to their daughter Charlotte . |
| 30 | His second wife Maria whom he married in 1849 was the daughter of William Hawkins of the Madras Civil Service . |