Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pron] wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when there were five married couples over the age of 60 in the workhouse , Mr. Chapman noted that , while William Wilson and Frances , his wife , were desirous of sleeping together , Thomas White and his wife Elizabeth , could not agree to do so — the man was willing but his wife was not . |
| 2 | An Austrian tourist was reported killed and his wife seriously injured . |
| 3 | And then this brother lived next-door and his wife popped in and out . |
| 4 | The Signore was extrovert and jolly and his wife was a wonderful cook , and very soon I was considered as one of the family . |
| 5 | okey-dokey how can they have someone else 's that 's been put in a test tube and kept fertilized and their wife 's |
| 6 | As it turned out , his sperm count appeared normal but his wife continued to fail to conceive . |
| 7 | So when her son married and his wife had a baby girl she felt as if she 'd regained the daughter she 'd lost . |
| 8 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 9 | You are married and your wife 's christian name 's okay . |
| 10 | I can see Mr Browne is impressed cos I 'm all married and my wife 's so beautiful and I 'm so grown up and that . |
| 11 | The wilder ones were rampant about black magic , the gruesome style of the mutilations , of kinky sex videos starring Polanski and his wife found at the house , and of the deep drug involvements of three of the victims . |
| 12 | In October 1815 a Mr. Scruton came , and stayed for a weekend full of music with the Green family , then went to Kendal to perform in a long concert which Green and his wife attended , together with their daughters Jane and Elizabeth . |
| 13 | When Green and his wife went on holiday to Corfu , he had sent Miss Warburton two love letters , in one of which he spoke about his ‘ current other half ’ . |
| 14 | James Welsh and his wife are recorded as decorating porcelain at Chelsea in 1750 ; by the summer of 1754 they had moved to Bow . |
| 15 | That American and his wife left the boat and drove away , later some of the crew came ashore too . |
| 16 | Mr Crump is very wealthy and his wife is susceptible . |
| 17 | Alan died tragically young but my wife and I have remained friends with Diana and family of three girls ever since . |
| 18 | Peter Rainford was unpleasantly attentive but his wife was quite happy with Felipe , and Maggie 's heart sank as they arranged to go round the Alhambra with them the next day . |
| 19 | Mr Wilkins was dead and his wife was barely alive . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Well , whereas the rest of the passengers were basically gearing up to tear my girlfriend and me to bits if we continued to go the way we were going — you get a kind of cabin fever on these flights between Australia and England — this Christian and his wife decided to adopt us , I guess as a kind of test for themselves . |