Example sentences of "about his wife 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | When her father , a retired civil servant , asked her about his wife 's condition , she would reply : ‘ The same as usual . ’ |
| 2 | Another example of the importance of having time to say goodbye to the person who has died is that of a client I was working with who seemed quite unable to talk about his wife 's death and seemed totally unconcerned that she had died tragically . |
| 3 | After rhapsodising about his wife 's ‘ pert , piquant , oh so pliable private parts ’ , he casually inquires what she would think of him if he had breasts . |
| 4 | Nahum Morey was not at all happy about his wife 's attachment to the Foundling child . |
| 5 | Peter is most unhappy about his wife 's views on physical punishment and still more unhappy about the fact that she now expects him , as head of the household , to be the one who does the spanking . |
| 6 | He was distressed when they asked about his wife 's fidelity , and in her turn Mrs T was accused of infidelity as she was interrogated separately from her husband . |
| 7 | In the result they sought to rely on a very undefined rule of confidentiality that had recently been confirmed in relation to the suppression of memoirs by the Duke of Argyll about his wife 's life , and in one or two other very dissimilar instances . |
| 8 | The jury did not believe Evans 's story about his wife 's abortion , as there was no evidence of it . |
| 9 | Then the front door bell rang and while Rupert went to answer it a somewhat uneasy conversation started up between the two women and Everard Bone about his wife 's flu and the likelihood or not of his catching it from her . |