Example sentences of "husband [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the few problems Julie and her husband faced was choosing tiles for the splashback . |
| 2 | ‘ The day my husband left was the day I started Gerson in earnest . |
| 3 | But all my husband said was : ‘ How much will it cost ? ’ |
| 4 | Mrs Doran 's husband had been a loser to Phipps , both at golf and in the bedroom . |
| 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 | ( One member of the Silverlock family married Matilda de Langford , whose first husband had been William de Mohun — see page 28 . ) |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mrs Sherwood relates the death of a boy of six , whom she and her husband had been asked to look after whilst his parents were in India : |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | My second husband had been born 6,000 miles away , but at his funeral service the coffin lay but a few feet from the church war memorial tablet bearing Leslie 's name . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Princess of Wales once told me that her husband had been watching the Miss World contest , which quite surprised me . |
| 13 | ‘ It appears the husband had been socialising rather strongly and there was a typical Christmas domestic dispute . |
| 14 | His wife Fenella told the Huntingdon inquest her husband had been extremely conscientious in his 18 years with Barclays . |
| 15 | She proved to be a pleasant soul whose husband had been drowned at sea . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Her husband had been kind , however , had kissed her and said the Lord would provide . |
| 18 | Mrs MacDonald was a Calgarian by birth , and her husband had been moved north by his firm to run the huge refinery that was now the pride of Tollemarche . |
| 19 | Earlier , my husband had been slumped in his chair , furtively picking his nose behind a detective story : now he was sitting upright , looking bright and alert and ten years younger , telling Flora that the Palais Jamai was a really marvellous old palace , an excellent example of Moorish architecture — Richard is often a little didactic . |
| 20 | A women sat outside her hut cooking some grass seeds for her two teenage children , both of whom were painfully thin and too weak to stand , and told me her story : Her husband had been shot months ago , and when the food ran out in her village her only choice was to come to Kismayo where aid agency food was arriving . |
| 21 | Trouble was that Mrs Sharon Rogers ' husband had been commander of the U. S. S. Vincennes . |
| 22 | Her husband had been an elegant officer in Napoleon 's cavalry , and Lucille had often wondered why such a handsome man had sought to marry her , but Xavier Castineau had thought himself most fortunate in his wife . |
| 23 | Her husband had been proud of how he had lived his life . |
| 24 | It had been a bitter pill to swallow , and she had made her feelings plain to the man her husband had been friends with since his childhood . |
| 25 | One of them , Mrs Frances Eckersley , whose first husband had been German , left for Berlin . |
| 26 | Mr James remembers her well , she was a sweet woman , all good nature , not a thought in her head , who asked for nothing but to love and cherish ( her husband had been spectacularly unfaithful to her , even for Rome — it runs in that family ) . |
| 27 | In a typical case in which a husband , seeking a bank advance for his business purposes , is told by his bank manager that security in the form of a charge over the jointly owned matrimonial home must be provided , it would astonish both the husband and the bank manager to be told that the husband had been appointed by the bank as its agent to obtain the wife 's consent to the proposed charge . |
| 28 | that , if undue influence or misrepresentation on the part of the husband had been established , he would have held the charge to be unenforceable by the bank . |
| 29 | I had heard that her husband had been very cruel to her . |
| 30 | For example , in 1983 it was said that ‘ even where the husband had been violent , it would be reasonable for the wife to continue to reside in the matrimonial home but to seek a court order restraining his violence or barring him from the home ’ and in these circumstances the authority 's duty would be ‘ to advise the applicant so to do , not to accommodate her as a homeless person ’ . |