Example sentences of "his wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | Photos , opposite page : ( top row ) Mahamat Abdoulaye ; Ismail Mehmedov Hyuseyinov with his wife ; Mihai ( Creanga ; ( middle row ) Kevin De Souza and friend ; Zikri Nafkhosh ; Ilkere Demir and his daughter Sinem ; ( bottom row ) Ladji Traoré ; Miram Abi Cobas Nunez ; Daniel Kokkalis . |
| 2 | In November 1990 , a further letter arrived , saying the young woman 's father was ill : he wanted 150,000 Dirham , and his wife should give 100,000 Dirham to the guard . |
| 3 | Charles is touchingly done — a frail unpublished poet kept going by his wife and son ( the wife is called Vivien , presumably by design , though she is no copy of the first Mrs Eliot ) , their household a breath of fresh air in the conniving , phrase-making milieu to which Charles clings . |
| 4 | The third narrative tells how George Meredith modelled for the corpse in the painting and how his wife then ran away with the painter ( see also the sonnets in Meredith 's Modern Love ) . |
| 5 | But then it turns out that the female lead , his wife Jenny Standish ( née Bunn ) , unreservedly cherishes their cat . |
| 6 | Two months after the Herling piece was published Levi committed suicide , throwing himself down the staircase of the house in Turin where he was born and grew up , where he wrote about his life in the camp at a desk which stood where his cradle had stood , a house he shared with his wife and mother . |
| 7 | Its withers will never win any of the races Ronnie had been telling himself about , and he is reluctant to return from this long , defeated , dark-thoughted walk to break the bad news or his adventure to his wife and daughters . |
| 8 | Henry , a successful playwright , is being pushed by his wife to re-write or adapt a play by a raw young man called Brodie , who is in prison . |
| 9 | A mature man , Henry speaks with style and wit about the art of playwriting to his wife ( who is prepared to listen ! ) . |
| 10 | Month in Kyoto every year with his wife . |
| 11 | The wife of an earl is a countess , and if that earl dies his wife becomes the Dowager Lady Blank . |
| 12 | Next to him his wife , a tall rangy woman whom Sven Hjerson somehow saw even here as being astride a hunter , was leaning forward tapping the tips of the fingers of each hand one against the other . |
| 13 | ‘ Murder , Peter , ’ his wife snapped , leaning forward in the saddle . |
| 14 | These were Peter Horbury and his wife who had been in the little car immediately next to Lord Woodleigh 's , and Miss Abernethie , who had been in the next car suffering the presence of the tartan-socked hotel tout . |
| 15 | ‘ Nonsense , Peter , ’ his wife pounced down on him as if he were a hound that had misbehaved . |
| 16 | ‘ Sir Vivien is the eleventh baronet and is the only surviving son of Sir Tregarron Blacker , the celebrated big-game hunter who died in the sinking of the Titanic , together with his wife , Lady Mabel . |
| 17 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 18 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 19 | Mr Yardley , according to his wife , had never set foot in the tent . |
| 20 | The door of No. 1 , where his wife Cissy Salt dressed , was ajar . |
| 21 | We must go tell his wife . |
| 22 | Still , he 's a married man , and his wife is in her seventh month , from what I hear : that 's why she had to send her apologies at the last moment … |
| 23 | Henry had already discovered that he was a solicitor and his wife a |
| 24 | ‘ My dear , ’ he said to his wife , ‘ are n't you going to tell our guests about our new addition to the dining-room ? ’ |
| 25 | Or have been asked not to by her husband … ’ he put his arm round his wife . |
| 26 | By the time he got home his wife was already beginning to be unwell . ’ |
| 27 | Cook tells me he 'd seen it somewhere and wanted one for his wife . |
| 28 | It would have been much more subtle just to have allowed his wife to demonstrate it when the time came and then to turn it into a talking point . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We ca n't work out how he could have killed his wife while he was sitting at the opposite end of the table , ’ said Constable Bewman näively . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , if it was intended as a distraction , then that must have been the moment when he poisoned his wife . |