Example sentences of "and [pron] wife " in BNC.
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1 | I can see Mr Browne is impressed cos I 'm all married and my wife 's so beautiful and I 'm so grown up and that . |
2 | We are each sitting there , the captain and I ( and my wife Ethna too , come to that ) , sipping our tea on opposite sides of this sleeping island and thinking our early , wide-awake thoughts . |
3 | ‘ Our plans changed , Wilson , and my wife had not kept pace with them . |
4 | ‘ I ride a mountain bike around the roads and my wife , Sandra , will drag me out even if I am shattered , ’ he says . |
5 | ‘ Us ’ , you understand , does n't mean me and my wife ; it means me and my lawyer against her and her lawyer . |
6 | My daughters and my wife shall see me fight , … they shall see with their own eyes our manner of living in this land , and how we get our bread . |
7 | I had had a whole afternoon spent upon me , been the centre of attention , cost the State a fortune and my wife had given up a whole day of precious work to be with me . |
8 | My father and mother both died in the Royal Hampshire Country Hospital ; my second grandchild was born there ; my daughter had her appendix removed there and my wife had an MOT there . |
9 | ‘ It was terrible , ’ he said , ‘ my children were taunted at school with ‘ your father is a fixer ’ and my wife got reactions going shopping . ’ |
10 | We 've had a long and tiring journey and my wife is not well . ’ |
11 | ‘ And my wife and baby , ’ he added . |
12 | GUSHIEST COMMENT : ‘ I 'm besotted with my daughter and my wife . |
13 | But when a manager starts saying in the Press that I and my wife should resign , it has gone too far . ’ |
14 | ‘ Well , I 'd never done weights before I came to Chelsea , and my wife gives me better things to eat than bananas . |
15 | ‘ He 's a personal friend , and my wife likes him . |
16 | ‘ I live in Bala , ’ he said , ‘ and my wife is out all the time . ’ |
17 | We will go on trying to provide the best and I would just like to say ‘ thank you from myself and my wife Eliza to the vast majority of those with whom we have had contact . |
18 | ‘ She spent Christmas with me and my wife Pam and I took her dog for a walk . ’ |
19 | I had a guid record , and my wife had it all planned out . |
20 | I have used my wife and son as models , and my wife , who sadly died three years ago , was often heroic , posing for up to 30 hours for a single drawing . |
21 | And my wife and I endured weeks of farewell parties with relatives and friends . |
22 | The sentence is not a ‘ prediction in the past ’ by the author ; it is a report of Goodman 's thought ‘ I and my wife will eat … |
23 | Only my daughter , and my wife when she was alive . ’ |
24 | She came between me and my wife " . |
25 | She came between me and my wife . " |
26 | In the evenings I taught my son , Branwell , and my wife 's sister looked after the youngest child , Anne . |
27 | I 've been married , and my wife still lives ! |
28 | David is coming and my wife would be so pleased if you would too . ’ |
29 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |
30 | They were very nice , yeah they came round to give us a quote and my wife actually knows one of their wives very very well and er but the produced an exorbitant quote . |