Example sentences of "their wife [coord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two thirds of men say they choose their ties to impress their wife or girlfriend |
| 2 | Only one in ten said that it had been suggested to them by a salesman , agent or someone at the shop ; about three-quarters said instead that they personally had thought of it , and most of the rest that it had been suggested by their wife or husband . |
| 3 | ‘ We do n't have telephones because our research showed that the average business person makes perhaps only one phone call from their room — probably to tell their wife or husband they 've arrived . |
| 4 | ‘ There are n't many men who would attack a woman on the street but there are plenty who would attack their wife or partner in the privacy of their own home , ’ says Shirley Tulloch of the Community Affairs Branch of the Metropolitan Police . |
| 5 | The survey says : ‘ Those people who are prepared to travel by tunnel may be outvoted by their wives and families , so there could be a knock-on effect . ’ |
| 6 | Under it daimyo had to reside for one year out of every two in the capital , and leave their wives and families in permanent residence there . |
| 7 | In listing the various problems faced by 5 Corps , Macmillan includes " Dealing with the White Russians and Cossacks , together with their wives and families , serving in these German forces ' and " Dealing with Ustachis , Chetniks and other Yugoslav refugees , deciding which , if any , are to be handed over to the Tito troops etc " . |
| 8 | If they want to settle out of court , then it has got to be a really substantial settlement to satisfy these people because er those that have already died , er they entered into the litigation in the hope of seeing it through and making sure that , er if anything did happen to them , their wives and families would be catered for and would be er financially settled . |
| 9 | They are just demonstrating to their wives and girlfriends what good Europeans they are . |
| 10 | The men ushered their wives and girlfriends to safety and then trudged the last mile to the party . |
| 11 | Eventually they will retire to other parts of the ground to watch the match with their wives and girlfriends . |
| 12 | The Officers arrived with their wives and girlfriends , the children following behind . |
| 13 | For example the considerable criticism of the police response to domestic disputes ‘ mainly related to their failure to take effective action by arresting men who assault their wives and girl friends ’ ( Shapland and Hobbs 1989 ) is largely determined by wider social factors pertaining to the historical role and place of women in society . |
| 14 | Not a pleasant task but the men get a bit browned-off sitting on their hunkers here , doing precious little but dig , and insecure grumbles to their wives and girl friends creep in from time to time . |
| 15 | The crowd of cockneys were singing along , rocking from side to side , men with arms around their wives and girl friends , tables stacked with glasses and bottles and littered with ashtrays and empty crisp packets . |
| 16 | With their wives and things . |
| 17 | The hunters had forfeited their title to the past , and now they were bringing to its remains less care than their wives and mothers took with rinsing , smoothing , and conserving for re-use scraps of brown paper or lengths of string . |
| 18 | The tents of the ‘ disobedient ’ were burnt down , their wives and daughters were taken into captivity , their fur stores were ransacked . |
| 19 | This is no mean achievement in a region which is dominated by the Islamic Sharia law and where nomadic men feel very threatened when their wives and daughters go to school . |
| 20 | Mill also thinks this is a very good way of introducing female suffrage at this point which he is very much in favour of , if you had a , if you had a vote on it should if you vote if er there was a vote among the male electors about whether women should be given the vote and there was a public ballot , then it 's very unlikely they would vote against the extension of franchise because their wives and daughters would be able to see what they 've done , so he thinks that erm the only reason for having a secret ballot is that you 're rather ashamed of what you 're doing and that if you have a public ballot people will vote much more responsibly . |
| 21 | Rich Americans , of course , whether healthy or ill — or more precisely their wives and daughters — made tracks for the centres of European culture , though by the end of our period the millionaires were already beginning to establish their pattern of summer residence in custom-built Xanadus along the stern coasts of New England . |
| 22 | In the voting for the Constituent Assembly during the winter of 191 7 his vote , together with that of many thousands of other ex-front soldiers and their wives and neighbours , had given the Bolsheviks healthy rural support . |
| 23 | Now , getting back to the comment the woman made earlier about men being misogynist within their own world I 'm quite convinced that a good deal of those men would go home to their wives and family and be very loving to their , to their wives and family , be respectful of their neighbours but as soon as they got in the all male environment , and this woman was there to be used , she was their property for the time that they paid their money to get through the door , they could be as misogynist , offensive and horrid as they wanted to be ! |
| 24 | Now , getting back to the comment the woman made earlier about men being misogynist within their own world I 'm quite convinced that a good deal of those men would go home to their wives and family and be very loving to their , to their wives and family , be respectful of their neighbours but as soon as they got in the all male environment , and this woman was there to be used , she was their property for the time that they paid their money to get through the door , they could be as misogynist , offensive and horrid as they wanted to be ! |
| 25 | They would rather play dead than face the pain of thinking about their wives and family and the ordinary small activities of family life which they did n't sufficiently value when they had freedom . |
| 26 | They exchanged addresses , bits of old sausage , gave each other presents of socks that their wives and sweethearts had knitted , and hoped and pretended , that it was all over . |
| 27 | Amidst the banter of the assembly of dockers , costers , labourers and mechanics , with their wives and sweethearts and babies — the lads at the back whistling improvised mood music to the events on stage , some pelting those in the pits below with orange pips , and all howling with laughter at their own jokes — he considered that ‘ very significant were the marks of popular interest and favour ’ : |
| 28 | Nevertheless , a close relationship was sustained , each Sunday evening saw the three brothers and their wives and children gathering together at Rachel Cohen 's home in highly convivial mood , Leonard 's grandmother being especially delighted in her firstborn 's firstborn . |
| 29 | Among Sikhs , for example , many of the first male immigrants arrived in the 1950s , by the 60s they had been joined by their wives and children and by the 70s many of them had brought their elderly parents . |
| 30 | These large families — two or three brothers , their wives and children and their parents — usually live in one house . |