Example sentences of "his wife was " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time he got home his wife was already beginning to be unwell . ’ |
| 2 | His wife was bringing out heavy ashets piled with pies , her daughters brought out clothsful of new loaves , still steaming . |
| 3 | During the evening his wife was very nervous and became extremely agitated when the British guns started up , the shells passing over the village with a loud roar . |
| 4 | His wife was acting before he was born but Alfred insists this is the perfect relationship |
| 5 | He had had no instruction in the Faith and his wife was not a Catholic . |
| 6 | His wife was slammed against a wall , sexually threatened and ordered to stand with her arms raised over her head until she collapsed . |
| 7 | Peter Yeo controlled the impulse to shout at her , realizing that his wife was badly rattled . |
| 8 | He was diagnosed as having leukaemia , his wife was called from Trinidad , and when she arrived was told he had no more than six weeks to live . |
| 9 | His wife was an orderly there when it was still a general hospital . |
| 10 | He just limped around gaining more sympathy from his students by hinting what a brute his wife was . |
| 11 | She was most solicitous ( scheming bitch ! ) so he told her that his wife was cured and they went back to the same old routine . |
| 12 | And his wife was definitely frigid and old . |
| 13 | His wife was lurking in the basement all the time Eleanor was there , so that he did not feel safe getting close . |
| 14 | His wife was often right in her perceptions of people . |
| 15 | I could see how things were with him at home ; his wife was no good at her job . |
| 16 | Only , she supposed , because it gave evidence of spirit and life — he had not wanted to hear his wife was prostrate with shock . |
| 17 | He said his wife was struck down , was inconsolable in the old way . |
| 18 | Mr Browning , she saw , was as robust as his wife was pitifully weak . |
| 19 | ‘ The poor middle-aged guy had a heart attack during a bonk with his teenage neighbour while his wife was out shopping . |
| 20 | His wife was telling him to saddle up and steal a fresh batch of cattle from his neighbour 's herds . |
| 21 | Confronted by her misdemeanours , as he ended 28 years in prison , Mr Mandela observed with dignity that if his wife was in trouble it was because he had not been free to take proper care of her . |
| 22 | His wife was large , vacant-faced , and stupid . |
| 23 | In reply to yet another question from the impromptu baby-sitter , he said that he did not know where his wife was , but he did believe that poor Maria had left him . |
| 24 | Predictably his wife was very upset about his resignation . |
| 25 | His wife was inclined to plumpness but it was a pretty plumpness , a happy plumpness . |
| 26 | When Tommy Grant next appeared , his wife was with him . |
| 27 | Ten years later one woman asks the husband of a particularly illustrious colleague what his wife was doing . |
| 28 | They had helped Clara into the world only the day after the O'Neils had moved in two years before and Denis knew his wife was in good hands . |
| 29 | He explained that his wife was a permanent invalid , unable to come to church , but said he : ‘ Since the day we got married we have shared everything we had and I am bringing this home to give to her . ’ ) |
| 30 | Within days of the episode , vicious rumours had spread throughout Ayrshire , Rough 's children were pilloried at school and his wife was humiliated on future shopping trips . |