Example sentences of "[pron] and [pos pn] wife [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in that ugly repository of polished pine , acoustic tiles and garish , sentimental stained glass that he and his wife had been married , and in a flat in the rectory , living above the parish priest , that they had made their first home . |
| 2 | He and his wife had been involved in offering support and assistance to the family whose eight children had been removed the previous November . |
| 3 | Seven other individuals , not related to his family , who had come to have a high regard for Beattie over the years among them were three or four Roman Catholics , including a man whom he had helped to find a new house after he and his wife had been intimidated out of their home by the Provisional IRA . |
| 4 | I remembered George Crowninshield very well , for he and his wife had been my very first clients on board Wavebreaker and I had been nervous , not just at the prospect of a new job , but because of the client 's eminence . |
| 5 | He was told that as he and his wife had been separated 15 months it was to be expected that she would find a new partner . |
| 6 | He was pleased that he and his wife had been able to talk to the doctor but he was still not sure that he understood about either the X-rays of his bowel or the surgery which might be necessary . |
| 7 | His father was an ex-general who had retired long before the war , and the life he and his wife led was essentially an upper-class thirties one . |