Example sentences of "and [pos pn] wife [vb past] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was told that as he and his wife had been separated 15 months it was to be expected that she would find a new partner . |
| 2 | His eldest brother and his wife had been killed in an earthquake over the mountains there on the other side of the Peloponnesus . |
| 3 | The previous week the man and his wife had been found in bed , dead . |
| 4 | Seven other individuals , not related to his family , who had come to have a high regard for Beattie over the years among them were three or four Roman Catholics , including a man whom he had helped to find a new house after he and his wife had been intimidated out of their home by the Provisional IRA . |
| 5 | In the course of about twenty-four hours Ed Riverton had been brutally exterminated in Finland — and his wife had been eliminated with equal brutality in East Anglia , over a thousand miles away . |
| 6 | He said that Traoré and his wife had been arrested " at his palace at Koulouba " , that the former President was " very well " , but that it was too early to speak about a trial . |