Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] his wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he wants his wife to be safe . |
| 2 | Well if he says he wa he wants his wife to have twenty thousand a year , I mean you 're looking at about two hundred and fifty , three hundred thousand gross |
| 3 | He says his wife 's experience has taught him that you must take precautions . |
| 4 | Eventually he allows his wife to make the first wish ; she wishes for him : ( " That you should be completely covered with penises " ) |
| 5 | Here , the wife is left exposed to the monk 's attentions when the husband shuts himself up in his counting-house ( 75 – 88 ) ; he delivers his wife a lecture on his " " curious bisynesse " " when she asks him to come down to eat ( 224 – 48 ) ; he must settle his affairs in Paris before he can settle back at home after his trip to Bruges ( 365 – 9 ) . |
| 6 | — he takes his Wife and Bairns with him , a Waggon the size of a Squatters Cabin and all such apparatus as will imcumber [ sic ] him not a little — he has never travelled in the Woods , never salted his rump Stakes [ sic ] with Gun Powder and how he will take to it , will be a ‘ sin to Crockett ’ . |
| 7 | He calls his wife the memsahib , so I guessed he served in India . |
| 8 | But if he obtains his wife 's submission to intercourse without resort to those means , there is no offence . |
| 9 | like Lady Macbeth , as one ought to behave , for he sends his wife on an errand : ‘ Emilia , run you to the citadel , /And tell my lord and lady what hath happed ’ ( V.i.126f . ) . |
| 10 | He presents his wife with a food processor or the latest wisdom on toilet training or breast feeding . |
| 11 | Compare it to the way a bobby pounds his beat or to the leisurely stroll Prince Philip adopts when he follows his wife on a walkabout . |
| 12 | It is black and gleaming and it gives his wife Meriel the willies . |
| 13 | How does he hold up his head if he knows his wife is deceiving him ? |
| 14 | Invariably the butt of the family joker , he leaves his wife clamouring for an image maker for a husband . |
| 15 | He leaves his wife , Heleen , and three children . |
| 16 | discount but who will be exempt from the tax if he leaves his wife and family and moves in with his student friends down the road . |
| 17 | Priestley had particular pleasure in recalling that moment in Payday in which Charlie has to walk home through the rain after foolishly spending his pay and after being pushed out of the last tram ; he anticipates his wife 's anger and the return to short rations and yet not all is hopeless , something might turn up . |