Example sentences of "his wife [was/were] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they did n't actually mention it , he said , he began to realise they were looking for suggestions that rituals had taken place , that he and his wife were part of it , and that their children were victims . |
| 2 | Neither the husband , Mr. Kennedy , nor his wife were customers of the bank ; but the husband was known to Bunn as someone authorised to act for Dempsey . |
| 3 | He and his wife were Drew 's best friends and fellow performers . |
| 4 | Dr Hirsch , previously headmaster of a school in Frankfurt , and his wife were wardens of the hostel , which accommodated twenty teenaged boys . |
| 5 | and by he and his wife were headmaster in the village village of and their master , headmaster used to give Wallace two lessons and they had it in different houses , you know |
| 6 | Mr. Duncan Broady had delivered his talk on Victorian crime at the Chairman 's Evening and with his wife were guests . |
| 7 | DR Michael Dewar , historian and author , who now lives in Cheltenham , and his wife were guests of honour at a function held by Mount Ida LOL near Banbridge last night . |
| 8 | His wife was Maud , one of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Alan la Zouche , a prominent Leicestershire magnate , who brought to her husband , on Zouche 's death in 1314 , the greater part of her father 's lands , worth nearly £720 a year . |
| 9 | His wife was Elizabeth Adlam , whom he had married in 1765 ; baptised in 1737 , daughter of William and Ann , she came from a fairly prolific Frome family . |
| 10 | His wife was Catherine , daughter of the Revd John Tucker , MA , rector of Ringwould , near Walmer . |
| 11 | His mother was a dragon-headed cloud and his wife was INANNA . |
| 12 | And his wife was understudy . |