Example sentences of "[coord] [pos pn] wife [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in that ugly repository of polished pine , acoustic tiles and garish , sentimental stained glass that he and his wife had been married , and in a flat in the rectory , living above the parish priest , that they had made their first home . |
| 2 | He and his wife had been involved in offering support and assistance to the family whose eight children had been removed the previous November . |
| 3 | Seven other individuals , not related to his family , who had come to have a high regard for Beattie over the years among them were three or four Roman Catholics , including a man whom he had helped to find a new house after he and his wife had been intimidated out of their home by the Provisional IRA . |
| 4 | I remembered George Crowninshield very well , for he and his wife had been my very first clients on board Wavebreaker and I had been nervous , not just at the prospect of a new job , but because of the client 's eminence . |
| 5 | He was told that as he and his wife had been separated 15 months it was to be expected that she would find a new partner . |
| 6 | In the course of about twenty-four hours Ed Riverton had been brutally exterminated in Finland — and his wife had been eliminated with equal brutality in East Anglia , over a thousand miles away . |
| 7 | He was pleased that he and his wife had been able to talk to the doctor but he was still not sure that he understood about either the X-rays of his bowel or the surgery which might be necessary . |
| 8 | The previous week the man and his wife had been found in bed , dead . |
| 9 | His eldest brother and his wife had been killed in an earthquake over the mountains there on the other side of the Peloponnesus . |
| 10 | He said that Traoré and his wife had been arrested " at his palace at Koulouba " , that the former President was " very well " , but that it was too early to speak about a trial . |
| 11 | His father was an ex-general who had retired long before the war , and the life he and his wife led was essentially an upper-class thirties one . |
| 12 | Whatever the miller and his wife did was all wasted labour . |