Example sentences of "my wife and i [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife and I spent the first days of our married life at Abbey St Bathan 's , on Whiteadder , when we stayed with a remarkable lady , Miss Gillon , in her gardener 's cottage . |
| 2 | My wife and I chose the questions and acted as quizmasters . |
| 3 | Q MY WIFE and I planted a piece of root ginger and it is growing strongly . |
| 4 | ‘ After lengthy consultation with a heating engineer now in Matteawan , my wife and I installed a pipeless furnace inlaid with emeralds and jade which feeds the warmth directly into an upstairs closet , leaving the rest of the establishment at freezing point . |
| 5 | The local manager came down , the provincial manager , and er made the award or was present when the award was made by the T U C C , and er a presentation was , took place on the platform , and er my wife and I had a weekend , we er we er , we had a weekend in er in York . |
| 6 | On a recent visit to New Zealand , my wife and I had the good fortune to meet up with Alf and Muriel Newton . |
| 7 | ‘ On Thursday nights my wife and I play a game of cards , and on Sundays she reads me her weekly letter from her mother . ’ |
| 8 | My wife and I loved a challenge in those days and we could see what it might become with hard work , but it was a real challenge , no mistake . |
| 9 | MY wife and I joined the National Trust at Cragside in Northumberland and over the last few years have cut a pretty wide swathe through Trust properties in Northumbria , North Yorkshire , Kent , the Lake District and East Anglia . |