Example sentences of "[prep] his wife 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does relate , however , that Tawell retained Sara Hart 's services after his wife 's death and rewarded the young lady with a second child . |
| 2 | He felt more duty to his mother too , because she had brought up his own first son after his wife 's death in childbirth . |
| 3 | Dustin 's transition after his wife 's rape from passive to active , from Clark Kent to Superman , comes about too smoothly to be credible . |
| 4 | After his wife 's departure in 1789 , Henry retired to the village of Bolas Magna in Shropshire to escape both the scandal and his heavy gambling debts . |
| 5 | When Freddie returned from compassionate leave in Scotland after his wife 's miscarriage and found the letter waiting which requested him to report to London immediately , he did so with thankfulness , even though he was not yet aware of the full repercussions of his latest extra-marital affair . |
| 6 | Spinner killed himself after his wife 's death . |
| 7 | Shortly after his wife 's death in 1951 he married Dorothy Joyce Ryder , daughter of Frank Bonham Ryder , an electrical engineer . |
| 8 | After his wife 's death in 1899 Machen briefly sought solace in the occult fraternity , the Order of the Golden Dawn , but ultimately found its teachings sterile . |
| 9 | , Arthur Norman ( 1914–1969 ) , philosopher , was born 4 December 1914 in Masterton , New Zealand , the only child of Elizabeth Munton Rothesay Teague ( who died shortly after his birth ) and Norman Henry Prior , medical doctor , who remarried shortly after his wife 's death , and had two other sons and a daughter . |
| 10 | Probyn , who made a television appeal after his wife 's disappearence , was later arrested at his home in Longley near Gloucester . |
| 11 | More usually it left him ashamed and angry , despite his wife 's kind words of consolation , and Ashi herself in an agitated state of dissatisfaction and unhappiness . |
| 12 | A pottery fireman lived opposite his wife 's parents , but because of her drinking ‘ they would n't have nothing to do with her … |
| 13 | She did not even tell her father , John , aged 76 , of his wife 's death . |
| 14 | The presumption that the husband is the father of his wife 's children is one that can be overthrown only by evidence of the most cogent , even though not of the most direct , kind . |
| 15 | Roger Vadim , a shrewd marketer of his wife 's attractions , had calculated this . |
| 16 | Everyone around him had assumed that at the ti me of his wife 's death he must miss her very much and said what a wonderful person she was . |
| 17 | But what , she wondered , did the Colonel think about during the periods of his wife 's persistent chattering ? |
| 18 | It proved a disastrous union — ‘ Salo ’ , the inferior player , became brutally jealous of his wife 's game , and accused her of flirting with whomever she happened to be playing . |
| 19 | The success of his wife 's industry ended her husband 's two years in prison . |
| 20 | And no , he could not discuss the question of his wife 's involvement with the infant at this stage . |
| 21 | Dudley was officially to hear of his wife 's death the following day , when a messenger was despatched from Cumnor Place to Windsor Castle where he was with the Queen . |
| 22 | He made a good living , and seemed resentful of his wife 's decision to take in a lodger . |
| 23 | If we accept that the narrative discourse represents the consciousness of the unnamed ‘ jealous husband ’ of the woman known as A … , then the ambiguities and contradictions in the text can be related to this narrator 's obsessive fascination with the possibility of his wife 's adultery . |
| 24 | After the baby was born and he was no longer the sole focus of his wife 's attention he felt insecure and displaced . |
| 25 | But Edward , more volatile and moody , was often in need of his wife 's common-sense . |
| 26 | Livingstone frequently seemed oblivious of his wife 's sufferings , perhaps because he walked thousands of miles and endured fever , dysentery , near starvation , assaults by hostile tribes and was attacked by a lion . |
| 27 | In temperament , Coleman appears to have been somewhat mercurial , and he could be despondent , as he was understandably at the time of his wife 's illness . |
| 28 | On his wedding night the sight of his wife 's pubic hair so appalled him that he was shocked into sexual abstinence for the rest of his life — not that he lost the urge . |
| 29 | When he knew of his wife 's pregnancy Ernest requested that none of their names should go into the ballot until after the baby 's birth . |
| 30 | But he ca n't repress a shudder as he recalls the day he learned of his wife 's death , at first being told that she had drowned . |