Example sentences of "man and wife [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The name of Heryng is found in and around Halling ; in 1346 Richard de Hales of Cobham , proved his legitimacy and that his father was married to Agnes Heryng of Halling in Halling Church more than forty years before and had lived as man and wife for more than twenty five years and that Richard was the said child was born and recognised as son and heir . |
| 2 | TELEPHONE sweethearts Heather Shannon and Chris Fereday became man and wife at the weekend after a whirlwind romance started by chance . |
| 3 | The formalities were gone through — including , in this case , the obtaining of a marriage licence ; the bachelor of St Ethelburga 's parish made an allegation that he knew of no lawful impediment why he should not marry the girl from St Dunstan 's in the West , and it was there that they became man and wife on 21 June 1799 . |
| 4 | Indeed , Kant and Hegel 's accounts of the relation between man and wife in love-making are actually not far removed from a description of pornographic eroticism . |
| 5 | It proves you spent at least three weekends together as man and wife in the Cotswolds . |
| 6 | She 's one of the ‘ one partner for life ’ brigade , man and wife in the eyes of God forever and ever a-bloody-men . |