Example sentences of "[adj] wife [coord] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Dauberval defined what he meant by dances of character he undoubtedly had in mind some easily recognised characters of the commedia dell'arte , whose actors regularly played such roles as the absent-minded doctor or scientist , miser , termagant wife or widow and various clowns such as the sad Pierrot or zany clown . |
| 2 | Six-months pregnant Whitney , left , says she plans instaed to be a good wife and mother and control her life . |
| 3 | It would be wrong to make them pay the price of justice — although this might nudge us into remembering that innocent wives and children and other dependents are made to suffer when the state imprisons thousands of working-class men for crimes which are often insignificant compared with corporate crimes . |
| 4 | I mean , elementary education for girls the board schools was very much a case of training them to be good wives and mothers and so on . |
| 5 | She was a loving wife and mother and an exceptional career woman , and Tim wants everyone to know that . |
| 6 | ‘ She was a successful businesswoman , a wonderful wife and mother and a good friend . |
| 7 | But you 've now got a new wife or girlfriend and there 's a new child to look after and the money wo n't stretch . |
| 8 | Lady Pomfret had been an excellent wife and mother and an efficient Lady of the Bedchamber , but she exposed herself to constant ridicule in society because she was so desperate to be thought of as a learned woman . |
| 9 | However , if one takes the women from others of his novels , they seem mostly to be devoted wives and mothers or grieving widows , or at the very worst spinster sister house-keepers . |