Example sentences of "was his wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , according to Aszal , they said they did not doubt that she was his wife . |
| 2 | For years , the only person who believed that Alfred Molina would ever become a star was his wife , actress Jill Gascoine , and he credits her for his new-found success . |
| 3 | One farmer in North Wales admitted that it was his wife who had trained him in lambing techniques after having been on a training course . |
| 4 | His evidence was to help place Mrs Dyer on the scaffold , as was his wife Polly 's , who testified that her mother had at times visited her with various small children who seemed to disappear overnight . |
| 5 | One of the few things he could instantly recall from his own brief marriage was his wife 's grilling a kipper on a gridiron over the fire . |
| 6 | And in the year 1037 Ferdinand slew Bermudo the King of Leon in battle , who was his wife 's brother , and conquered his kingdom , and succeeded to it in right of his wife Doña Sancha . |
| 7 | ‘ She was his wife , after all . ’ |
| 8 | His body yearned for her ; once she was his wife she would lose her prudery , as all properly brought up young women did ; and they would wed and bed , like the two in the song . |
| 9 | When the sight elicited from one of the bystanders , ‘ I know he deserves it , but enough is enough , and after all , he 's his father , ’ another had answered , ‘ Aye , you 've said it : he 's his father ; but then , the lass was his wife . ’ |
| 10 | It was not his way to speak sharply — that was his wife 's department — but he could not conceal the fact that he thought Anna was both wrong and behaving badly . |
| 11 | The worst sufferer was his wife , Sophie . |
| 12 | To all intents and purposes he was an attache with the Kenyan delegation at the United Nations and the only person outside UNACO who knew the truth was his wife , and even she had only been briefed in the vaguest possible terms . |
| 13 | If he took one side of the street during a walkabout the crowd collectively groaned , it was his wife they had come to see . |
| 14 | Was his wife wearing a low cut dress which showed off her … ( giggle , giggle ) ? |
| 15 | Jean-Claude said , handing me an affidavit , to swear I was his wife . |
| 16 | I realized with a start that the beautiful young woman who had spoken to us on the bank was his wife . |
| 17 | I was in love with him ; I was his wife . |
| 18 | It was conceived within wedlock and while she was his wife any child of her body was legally his property . ‘ |
| 19 | He supposed it was his wife , Susan . |
| 20 | Since he lived in isolation , being a nature poet and finding contact with people a digression from his work , the only object of abuse that was readily available to him was his wife . |
| 21 | One year he arrived with a young lady , then came back when she was his wife . |
| 22 | Unless it was his wife as well . |
| 23 | Nor was his wife ‘ sensible ’ like Harriett , who found Kitty ‘ silly ’ . |
| 24 | Was his wife human again ? |
| 25 | If the old King saw this he would have apoplexy , for the Prince was openly treating Gaveston as if he was his wife . |
| 26 | Stef was his wife . |
| 27 | No , Crawford , that was the name of the host ; she could distinctly remember Justin mentioning it before they 'd arrived here ; it was his wife who had invited them all — well , not all of them exactly , just Justin — ‘ Because she likes them young , ’ Justin had informed them , as they 'd piled into his old banger of a car . |
| 28 | He had desired her once , and now she was his wife . |
| 29 | She was his wife . |
| 30 | He might never know of her love , might never want it , but she was his wife . |