Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pron] wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when there were five married couples over the age of 60 in the workhouse , Mr. Chapman noted that , while William Wilson and Frances , his wife , were desirous of sleeping together , Thomas White and his wife Elizabeth , could not agree to do so — the man was willing but his wife was not . |
| 2 | An Austrian tourist was reported killed and his wife seriously injured . |
| 3 | Six and his wife are buried in Holy Cross , Westgate , and are commemorated in a tablet within the chancel . |
| 4 | And then this brother lived next-door and his wife popped in and out . |
| 5 | Yet by the time George VI and his wife had guided Britain through the war and their daughter had come to the throne , the monarchy seemed stronger than ever . |
| 6 | Henry VI became quite ill in August 1453 and his wife , Margaret , sought the power of Regent , but Parliament favoured Richard , Duke of York , an efficient military commander and a rich land-owner . |
| 7 | Sadder still are the references to death — Bonnard 's brother in early 1941 and his wife , ‘ ma pauvre Marthe ’ , in January 1942 . |
| 8 | The Signore was extrovert and jolly and his wife was a wonderful cook , and very soon I was considered as one of the family . |
| 9 | Masson died in Lower Edmonton 5 November 1853 and his wife followed two years later , leaving two children . |
| 10 | okey-dokey how can they have someone else 's that 's been put in a test tube and kept fertilized and their wife 's |
| 11 | As it turned out , his sperm count appeared normal but his wife continued to fail to conceive . |
| 12 | Finally , in 1571 , the Emperor Maximilian II and his wife paid a visit on foot to the Jewish quarter , and were welcomed under a traditional canopy by the Rabbi and the mayor , Mordechai Maizl . |
| 13 | The early 1330s , therefore , saw the renewal of English involvement in Scotland and in 1334 David II and his wife fled to France for asylum , a development which in its turn seriously complicated England 's relations with France . |
| 14 | So when her son married and his wife had a baby girl she felt as if she 'd regained the daughter she 'd lost . |
| 15 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 16 | You are married and your wife 's christian name 's okay . |
| 17 | I can see Mr Browne is impressed cos I 'm all married and my wife 's so beautiful and I 'm so grown up and that . |
| 18 | The wilder ones were rampant about black magic , the gruesome style of the mutilations , of kinky sex videos starring Polanski and his wife found at the house , and of the deep drug involvements of three of the victims . |
| 19 | The idea being that if he spends the next couple of weeks explaining to all the other people there why he ca n't keep his hands off women he wo n't want to be unfaithful any more and his wife will forgive him . |
| 20 | In addition there is the letter of Sidonius , a generation earlier , recording the good works of Chilperic I and his wife , and the high regard in which they were held by bishop Patiens . |
| 21 | A tradition says that the Emperor 's wife was ill with a disease that baffled the native doctors but the letter which was carried by the Ambassador suggests the true reason ; the Emperor 's sexual ability seems to have been causing him more concern than either his own or his wife 's health as he asked that the physician should bring ‘ some medicines that would provoke the venery ( encourage sexual indulgence ) ’ , in other words , he wanted an aphrodisiac . |
| 22 | In October 1815 a Mr. Scruton came , and stayed for a weekend full of music with the Green family , then went to Kendal to perform in a long concert which Green and his wife attended , together with their daughters Jane and Elizabeth . |
| 23 | When Green and his wife went on holiday to Corfu , he had sent Miss Warburton two love letters , in one of which he spoke about his ‘ current other half ’ . |
| 24 | James Welsh and his wife are recorded as decorating porcelain at Chelsea in 1750 ; by the summer of 1754 they had moved to Bow . |
| 25 | That American and his wife left the boat and drove away , later some of the crew came ashore too . |
| 26 | Sir Francis Child was the banker to William and Mary and even had to arrange to provide jewellery , some of it his own and his wife 's , for the great double Coronation . |
| 27 | Mr Crump is very wealthy and his wife is susceptible . |
| 28 | Alan died tragically young but my wife and I have remained friends with Diana and family of three girls ever since . |
| 29 | Peter Rainford was unpleasantly attentive but his wife was quite happy with Felipe , and Maggie 's heart sank as they arranged to go round the Alhambra with them the next day . |
| 30 | Mr Wilkins was dead and his wife was barely alive . ’ |