Example sentences of "[art] wife [coord] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The wife and child that Tod and I will one day have .
2 He explained his philosophy : ‘ It 's a nasty brutal world and the only morals I 've got are : be proud ; get what you can ; look after the wife and family and fuck everybody else . ’
3 Women active within the labour movement , particularly members of the Fabian Women 's Group , were concerned that women 's economic dependence had a detrimental effect on the status of the wife and mother and proposed the state endowment of motherhood , which was intended to give the married woman a degree of economic independence without undermining her role as a wife and mother .
4 Then they have five days to sell the dog , make arrangements for the wife and kids and set off for Moscow 's Star City , ’ he said .
5 He talked about the wife and kids and fled —
6 Thus a man may be possessed of knowledge of discreditable incidents in the victim 's life and may seek to extort money by threatening , if he is not paid , to disclose the knowledge to a wife or husband or employer , though the disclosure may not be libellous .
7 Quietly D'Arcy said : ‘ Why did you never mention that you had a wife and child when I was asking about relatives or friends who might be in danger from these Iranians ? ’
8 He has a wife and children and most men do n't usually leave their wives , do they ? ’
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