Example sentences of "her husband [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Arsmtrong said : ‘ She said she thought he was going to start on her again so she went into the kitchen to get a knife and while her husband had his back turned she pushed the knife into his lower back . |
| 2 | He had reckoned without the mother , however , who started behaving very violently , plunging the house into darkness one night trying to electrocute herself , and threatening to wreck the warehouse where her husband kept his stocks . |
| 3 | The fascination of this book is in its clear-sighted debunking of the myths which many have fondly mistaken for historical truth : that Columbus was really aiming for Asia , that he and his sailors thought the world was flat , that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to finance his trips and came down with her husband to wave him off from the docks , or even ( a fondly-cherished delusion ) that these were journeys of discovery rather than intentional acquisition and expansion of the Spanish empire . |
| 4 | BULLIED wife Linda Kelly wept with shame when her husband forced her to have sex with his best friend , a jury was told yesterday . |
| 5 | In later years when they were reduced to penury , she displayed great moral heroism in preserving intact the framework of a family and a household , which alone enabled her husband to continue his work . |
| 6 | But her husband interrupted her . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , his wife justifies everything he does , ignores the very obvious sufferings of her daughters , and sacrifices her last chance of a career in nursing in a vain attempt to make her husband love her . |
| 8 | Her husband vaunted what he called his ‘ poverty ’ , without , of course , ever explaining its cause . |
| 9 | Her husband said she had suffered ‘ three years of worry ’ . |
| 10 | She said she wanted to warn the Shah , but her husband forbade her to do any such thing . |
| 11 | When her husband saw her coming his heart was wrung with anguish , but the two older brothers , without wasting a moment , seized her , tied her hands , and pushed her into a gap in the wall . |
| 12 | A few days later , an irate Mrs Jacobs was in touch : ‘ She stated that neither she nor her husband saw our representative and she is annoyed that ‘ some person ’ should have questioned her servants about their private affairs . ’ |
| 13 | Elaine can not bear the thought of her husband using her handkerchief . |
| 14 | Normally Rachel slept for a few hours after the feed and Carrie had made sure her husband knew what to do should the baby wake up before she got home . |
| 15 | He got it from La Belle Fertoniere : her husband knew she had syphilis and allowed Francis to seduce her . |
| 16 | See , her husband takes her shopping on a Saturday to Asda and and why do n't you go , I do n't know whether they all been together or what ? |
| 17 | ‘ Her husband obliged her to face the fact that there is no suitable successor available to relieve her of the heavy burden she carries , ’ says the insider . |
| 18 | Vera Loomis , the ninety-two-year-old who lived at number 92 and was known for some reason as Got All the Things There Then ? had offered plum wine or home-brewed lager and Susan Doyle , who was reported to watch News at Ten while her husband pleasured her , had suggested lemonade shandy . |
| 19 | ‘ That could take days if not weeks , ’ her husband told her . |
| 20 | Her husband told her she 's got nothing to fear because the things they did together were n't dangerous . |
| 21 | Presumably , when her husband told her that he and his boss practised harmless sex , what he meant is that they do n't practise full gay sex . |
| 22 | Mrs. O'Brien said that she believed what her husband told her about the company doing well and having good potential , but she was concerned for her son and felt that it was only for three weeks , and if it would do the trick , she would sign . |
| 23 | After her husband told her they had been ruined by Wickens , she stormed off to confront him , only to see him setting off on his bicycle . |
| 24 | An airman 's wife has told a jury how her husband told her he started a fire which caused nineteen million pounds damage to an airbase . |
| 25 | Heather Bailey said her husband told her how he 'd cut cut down a parachute in hangar 8 at RAF Hullavington and lit it with a match . |
| 26 | Mrs Bailey says her husband told her he and Corporal Steven Paterson had gone to the hangar after a drinking spree . |
| 27 | erm , cos Mary that still works in there she , her husband worked for either Mr Henry , I ca n't remember his name , the man that owned it , and I think , I think perhaps they were brothers or something , she , her husband owns it now it 's Freyers or something now |
| 28 | She signed it because her husband pressed her to do so and told her he was being pressed by Campbell , and because she believed that if she would sign it … it would enable her husband to settle the beer contract . … |
| 29 | Her husband muttered something to me about going to find her and then stormed off . ’ |
| 30 | By the end of the first scene Blanche has had her first ‘ flashback ’ to the Casino , where her husband killed himself . |