Example sentences of "that [pron] husband had " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I explained that my husband had been a member of the British armed forces and was in uniform , the official seemed to lose all interest , which I thought strange , as there had been French and Belgian equivalents of the S.A.S. in 1944 . |
| 2 | However , Major John Wiseman , M.C. , at first told me categorically ( in a private communication ) that my husband had not been in ‘ A ’ Squadron , but later kindly wrote to me to correct this statement . |
| 3 | Word had come that my husband had arrived in Abu Dhabi . |
| 4 | Now the remarkable circumstance , recorded by Anna Dostoevsky in her memoirs , is that her husband had a foreboding of political disturbances at the Academy , and fearing that his brother-in-law ‘ because of his youthfulness and weakness of character might take an active part in them ’ , he persuaded Anna 's mother it would be a good thing if the young man came to them in Dresden : which he did in October of 1869 , the month before Ivanov was murdered . |
| 5 | ‘ Something like that , ’ Now was not the time to suggest to this woman that her husband had been a blackmailer as well as a thief . |
| 6 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 7 | On arrival in the New World , Tawell 's wife found that her husband had amassed an immense fortune . |
| 8 | The court heard that her husband had become suspicious early last year and had gone to the National Westminster bank asking them not to release any further cheque books . |
| 9 | When Vera Czermak found that her husband had been unfaithful , her first thought was to throw herself out of the window of their third-floor flat in Prague and put an end to her misery . |
| 10 | As the couple turned away , the wife was grumbling that her husband had missed the chance of what they now considered to be the best prospect . |
| 11 | She simply told me how relieved she was that her husband had not put to sea that day . |
| 12 | The fact that her husband had fitted an electric light inside the cupboard made no difference at all ; it was the thought of being within that cramped space — even with the door to the hall left open — that Sylvia could not bear . |
| 13 | The fact that her husband had a mistress did n't diminish the affection he had for his wife . |
| 14 | The Princess of Wales once told me that her husband had been watching the Miss World contest , which quite surprised me . |
| 15 | This second misfortune seemed to revive her memories of the earlier time when she had been carrying his child and had been given to understand that her husband had been simultaneously carrying on an affair with some young army chauffeuse . |
| 16 | His death enabled Mr Beltrami to Apply to the Scottish Law Society for a waiver of the confidentiality he had observed in relation to McGuinness 's admissions to the Ayr crime ; and he enclosed a statement from Mrs McGuinness that her husband had also admitted the crime and Waddell 's Participation in it , to her . |
| 17 | The teacher 's widow continued to deny that her husband had had sex with his killer 's 15-year-old daughter , and the dead man 's brother spoke of the ‘ fantasies ’ of the teenage schoolgirl . |
| 18 | We had tea and discussed everything except the two things that interested me : the fact that I was in love with her daughter , and the fact that her husband had run off with a schoolgirl . |
| 19 | In the present case the position when Mrs. Dennis died was that her husband had not yet been adjudicated bankrupt . |
| 20 | I went , I had to tell a lady that her husband had died er about two Christmases ago , two days before Christmas . |
| 21 | It was Mrs Robinson who served him his late breakfast and it took no more than the tapping of an eggshell to discover from that guileless woman that her husband had gone down to Lorton with goats ' cheese and potted char for the market men who called there on a Thursday . |
| 22 | I had heard that her husband had been very cruel to her . |
| 23 | She had been lonely from the start of her marriage , despite the presence of a small army of black servants in the Queen Anne plantation house overlooking the James River , and several years had passed before she understood fully that her husband had used his frequent absences , at first on plantation business , then in Washington , to conceal an almost total lack of physical interest in her . |
| 24 | She was convinced now that her husband had been working on a book about The Hell Fire Club and … |
| 25 | The police were convinced that her husband had not been murdered . |
| 26 | And yet , says Renate Olins surprising positives may emerge : one initially devastated client in counselling began to reflect that her husband had started to play around because it made him feel a bigger man . |
| 27 | While they were saying so , Marshall was contacting Mrs Tavett and learning that her husband had said he was going to the surgery that morning but had not been home since . |
| 28 | She was often thankful that her husband had not felt the call to serve in a slum parish or on a new housing estate . |
| 29 | His wife claimed that her husband had been had been shot by the Army when he threatened to expose the whole affair if his $1,000,000 investment in La Cutufa was not returned . |
| 30 | Rita Süssmuth , president of the Bundestag , was the subject in March of a parliamentary investigation concerning allegations that her husband had used her official Mercedes improperly . |