Example sentences of "'s wife [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr 's wife made it . |
| 2 | Our Mervin 's wife had it . |
| 3 | Pilate 's wife sent him a message begging him to have nothing to do with Jesus as she had experienced a bad dream because of him . |
| 4 | That night Anthony 's wife sent me the following balm from Chequers : |
| 5 | Of course now they 're recalling the fact that Tweed 's wife left him several years ago for a Greek shipping magnate , that he has n't had a lot to do with women since … ’ |
| 6 | After Andrew Stavanger 's wife died he turned the house into three flats , and he lives alone in the top flat . |
| 7 | The next brother 's wife said she would do this . |
| 8 | ‘ But Mother went scarlet when the boss 's wife told me what a nice suit I was wearing , and I told her that Mother had spent nearly all night making it . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I used to have a tutee who lived there , ’ she responded brightly when the professor 's wife told her in which part of London they had their house . |
| 10 | Not that this , as it happened , was necessary because the landlord 's wife saw we had all we wanted . |
| 11 | Desmond 's wife brought them tea and a sponge cake that was still warm . |
| 12 | Laughing and joking , they left their bags there and made their way down to the tap room where the landlord 's wife served them huge fish pies , the crust , golden and crisp , hiding a savoury sauce which dulled the flavour of the rancid fish . |
| 13 | Again the Eldest Son 's wife served her , pouring water over her hands as she lathered the soap , the dirty water dropping through the perforated lid of the basin . |
| 14 | Timber was stacked on the gallery floor and the farmer 's wife removed her washing for photographs to be taken — a practical use for a gallery in inclement weather . |
| 15 | As a supermarket manager 's wife put it : |
| 16 | The farmer 's wife held it in her arms , so that it could not jump at me . |
| 17 | Paul gives a revealing insight into Peter 's ministry when he suggests that Peter 's wife accompanied him when he was travelling and church building . |
| 18 | I thought I would get a job there but I could n't for a few months and er , my wife and two children joined me there and my brother 's wife joined us there , and two of us bought the house in Luton . |
| 19 | Crowley 's wife divorced him on grounds of admitted adultery in 1910 . |
| 20 | The Vicar 's wife gave her the magazine to edit and type up . |
| 21 | Houghton 's wife reported him to naval security for being in possession of large sums of cash . |
| 22 | By this time people were organising treks out of Burma and the chaplain 's wife begged me to take you three out by a plane leaving Shwebo next day , but you were all too sick , and so we stayed on and I hastily sewed boiler suits against mosquitoes if and when we could trek out . |
| 23 | They cheered when Peter 's wife threw his incessantly chirruping portable phone out of the window . |
| 24 | Mr Gill 's wife nominated him for the prize for his purchase of the ‘ Astronomicon ’ , a poem in Latin verse on astronomy and astrology of around 1455–60 by Basinio da Parma , dedicated to Malatesta Novello , lord of Cesena , and probably made in Rimini . |
| 25 | The letter was of course addressed to Mrs Linkworth , and naturally Linkworth 's wife opened it . |
| 26 | The farmer 's wife invited us in and gave us cheesy , potato turnovers — it would not be polite to refuse . |