Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] his wife ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father had changed greatly with his wife 's death , too . |
| 2 | Unfortunately he could n't find anything large enough in his wife 's wardrobe . |
| 3 | He told people of a bag he 'd lent to her and which was found with her body ; He said his fingerprints would be all over his wife 's cars steering wheel ; and he told the police she 's been violent and upset when he left him . |
| 4 | Astell Investments , which owns the home in Astell Street , Chelsea , claims Lord Palumbo has paid no rent since moving in to his wife 's house in December 1986 . |
| 5 | He had been carried along by his wife 's extraordinary power of making decisions , from the time when she had walked into the offices of Glebe and Pargeter , when his old father was alive , and told him that her great-aunt had left her some money and she had decided to invest it in a London house . |
| 6 | Shortly after his wife 's death in 1951 he married Dorothy Joyce Ryder , daughter of Frank Bonham Ryder , an electrical engineer . |
| 7 | , 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 . |
| 8 | There was nothing vulgar about these hands , not like his wife 's plebeian paws with their chilblains and chipped red enamel . |
| 9 | The tone of voice revealed the intensity of his disgust , not just with his wife 's snores , but with her physicality as such . |
| 10 | I saw Changez 's eyes fall caressingly on his wife 's form and then rest on his prostitute 's grooving hips as the two of them got down to Martha Reeves and the Vandellas . |
| 11 | At this point the husband , who had not moved once during his wife 's burial — not even during the long wait for the priest — suddenly fainted to the ground and had to have cold water thrown over him . |
| 12 | That did n't amount to much and most of it was second-hand , picked up from his wife 's artless prattle and staff-room gossip . |
| 13 | But Pete might just come out in his wife 's name next week |
| 14 | When Zoser dabbed a little on his wife 's sleeve she took the sleeve and held it up to her nose . |
| 15 | But she 's becoming something of an obsession with Ryan , particularly since his wife 's death . |
| 16 | ‘ OK , ’ she nodded quickly , and noticed as she left the veranda that Bill Hamilton had moved closer to his wife 's side and engulfed her slim artist 's hand in his larger , stronger one in a gesture of silent support . |