Example sentences of "be his wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm his wife . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But then , when my work 's done and I go home , I 'm happy to be his wife . |
| 3 | I will no longer be his wife ! |
| 4 | And when the King thought it a fit season , he spake to him and said , that Doña Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count whom he had slain , had come to ask him for her husband , and would forgive him her father 's death ; wherefore he besought him to think it good to take her to be his wife , in which case he would show him great favour . |
| 5 | ‘ On one occasion , I rang his home and a woman I assumed to be his wife answered . |
| 6 | Tim leaned across to Anne and asked her to be his wife |
| 7 | He loved Coleen with all the breath in his body , he would do anything to please her to be his wife . |
| 8 | Neighbours said one of the arrested men moved into a flat just before Christmas and lived with a woman presumed to be his wife and two sons in their mid-teens . |
| 9 | She once said , ‘ I do n't want to be his f-ing mistress , I want to be his wife . ’ |
| 10 | A guest , Mr Green , is dining in the restaurant with a young lady , when another lady purporting to be his wife arrives at the reception desk and asks that her husband be paged . |
| 11 | " Sam here 's just been an' asked me to be his wife , " she said . |
| 12 | Sam here 's asked me to be his wife , and I do n't see why I should n't tell him yes . " |
| 13 | " Father , " she said quietly , " Dom João has asked me to be his wife and I have accepted his keepsake . |
| 14 | His name is Erik , and he loves me , he wants me to be his wife ! |
| 15 | I had assumed he would still want me to be his wife , and wondered why he did not ask me . |
| 16 | Turning around , she found herself facing the dark , handsome-looking woman who 'd arrived with Ross Aldridge and whom Diane assumed to be his wife . |
| 17 | And when God saw that the man was lonely He made a beautiful woman like mother to be his wife and to help him . |
| 18 | Equally unlikely but certainly possible is a situation in which the defendant has sexual intercourse with a woman without her consent , mistakenly believing that woman to be his wife . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's strange , ’ said Marian , ‘ to think Tess will be his wife , not a fine lady , but a girl who lives like us . ’ |
| 20 | It looked like a woman , but he never imagined that it could be his wife until she came close and he saw it was Tess . |
| 21 | The anti-hero in Billy Liar is surrounded by doting young women aspiring to be his wife . |
| 22 | But to be his wife … |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , ’ she breathed , ‘ oh , Havvie , yes , ’ and if , when he kissed her , with the perfect decorum with which a well brought up young peer should treat a single girl — even one who had promised to be his wife — she did not feel quite the surge of passion which she had expected , she put that down to her inexperience , and his tentative handling of her , which would change with time , she knew . |
| 24 | I have , in effect , been his wife for nine years , and now I wish to be his wife in truth . |
| 25 | Can you bring yourself to marry a poor doctor , be his wife , and share his burdens ? |
| 26 | A matter of months later , he chose her to be his wife . |
| 27 | She said that she loved Fabien , and wanted to be his wife , and build a future with him . |
| 28 | ‘ Can it be his wife ? ’ |
| 29 | A rich but ugly hunchback is able to obtain a beautiful young girl to be his wife and then guards her with consuming jealousy . |
| 30 | This proposal was defeated largely by William , who insisted that he would not be his wife 's " gentleman usher " . |