Example sentences of "[prep] his [adj] wife ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louis sat listlessly in his place opposite his dead wife 's high-backed chair and empty plate . |
| 2 | The bed on the brass probably represents that which Lambarde purchased in 1584 , for the birth of his first child , a boy named Multon in honour of his previous wife 's father . |
| 3 | But the garrison , distressed by the revelation that Dr McNab had actually written a description in his diary of his own wife 's death by cholera , feared that in the case of Dr McNab even the caricature of a Scot might be mild in comparison with the truth ; they could think of few less tantalizing prospects than that their deaths should become medical statistics . |
| 4 | Fred could feel the softness as he rested his head against his young wife 's breast , and he could hear her steady heartbeats . |
| 5 | His heart was buried in his first wife 's grave in Stinsford churchyard , beneath the tombstone he had himself designed to accommodate both their names . |
| 6 | Intimate details about the relationship are supplemented by information from his first wife 's 63-year-old mother , who is also named and photographed . |
| 7 | The feasting for the day of Christ 's resurrection painted bright patches of colour on the faces of the men ; their voices rose , their limbs spread , they called out compliments on the food to the women who made it ; Davide 's uncle praised Nunzia to her father , singling out her good humour , comparing it favourably to his own wife 's melancholy , to which she in her turn , hearing herself commented upon , tossed her head , and set her jaw . |
| 8 | Cumming ( he changed his name in 1889 after marriage ) spent the early 1890s largely as a country gentleman on his second wife 's Morayshire estate . |
| 9 | Although it happens far less frequently , a divorced man can rely on his former wife 's contribution record during the years they were married to improve his basic pension . |
| 10 | Joseph 's complacency about his future wife 's pregnancy was of course the result of the revelation of the true Father of the future infant . |
| 11 | TENNIS legend Bjorn Borg has been served with a £21,000 a month maintenance claim to pay for his estranged wife 's household staff . |