Example sentences of "of wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it 's all gone past my wildest dream , ’ said Denis , 39 , who has the full support of wife Lynn and three youngsters . |
| 2 | He had often told her that it was a social disadvantage having the sort of wife he could n't take anywhere , but he dropped this line when she started appearing beside him at literary lunches and old school do 's . |
| 3 | It seemed all of her father 's old acquaintances had not been too impressed by his choice of wife . |
| 4 | In this society it follows that real talent goes unrewarded and unflinching purity of soul is automatically derided — on both these counts I am to be numbered among the punished , especially in regard to material goods and services , financial security , the trust and love of friendship , and the divinely counselled companionship of wife and family . |
| 5 | But , dear Octavia , in the Case of Wife , |
| 6 | The Bill 's interesting , I think , because they do have quite a few isolated episodes , like that issue of wife battering , which can be quite progressive . |
| 7 | He carries a picture of wife Sarah and his two young boys , just in case he forgets what they look like ! |
| 8 | There is a high rate of wife battering and child abuse on the estate , and a concentration of problems such as drug addiction and alcoholism . |
| 9 | Bragging boyo Neil Kinnock ca n't resist outlining the charms of wife , Glenys . |
| 10 | ‘ There is a growing number of people who see cohabitation as a complete alternative to the married state — particularly among well-educated women with promising careers , who regard the more traditional role of wife as getting in the way . |
| 11 | Two brothers of wife Gail Spiro and a distant relative of her husband arrived in San Diego yesterday . |
| 12 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 13 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 14 | Eddy dangles a very tempting adulterous carrot in front of Richard and suggests a convivial evening of wife swapping . |
| 15 | Charles B. of Roxton had a fractured thigh ; others were suffering from spitting of blood , illness of wife , injury to chest , accident to child , cut hand , and — which may have provided relief of a different sort to the Board — two men with fever : Abraham Fox and James Rabbit . |
| 16 | The roles of wife and husband are defined in legislation in which the state is concerned with economic redistribution . |
| 17 | These are signs that the ranking of ‘ wife ’ or ‘ housewife ’ is low relative to other occupations — signs which indicate that there may be a measure of agreement in society generally about the status of wife ( such agreement being a crucial determinant of social prestige hierarchies ) . |
| 18 | A second possibility is that social ranking of wife or housewife roles varies with different socio-economic contexts . |
| 19 | Its implication is that being a housewife is something so eminently inferior to every other occupation ; it also belittles those other roles of wife and mother . |
| 20 | The social denigration of housework overflows into the even more highly valued ( to the women themselves ) occupations of wife and mother . |
| 21 | goes instead in search of wife . |
| 22 | The femininity of Woman with its emphasis on the role of wife and mother , is vastly different from that of Cosmopolitan , where the feminine woman is encouraged to be adventurous in catching the most sexually desirable man , retaining him for as long as he is interesting , and getting a super job into the bargain . |
| 23 | Families in modern Britain are generally more privatized and inward-looking than they used to be , with a greater interest in the home and the immediate family of wife or husband and children . |
| 24 | Thus the role of doctor is played in relation to the role of patient , the role of husband in relation to the role of wife . |
| 25 | The contribution of wife 's earnings to total household earnings showed some increase during the 1970s and then stabilized . |
| 26 | She did not , but she wanted to be the kind of wife who would have known all the things it would hurt to know , like the circumstances of his pleasure . |
| 27 | Like all good secretaries she had acquired or at least known how to simulate , some of the idealised attributes of wife , mother , mistress , confidante , servant and friend without being , or indeed expecting to be , any of these . |
| 28 | And she seemed to have made Connon a bearable kind of wife . |
| 29 | If you had stayed , the role of wife would have been yours . |
| 30 | The essential role prescription of wife and motherhood did not change , but , in theory at least , the importance of the work performed by mothers was recognised . |