Example sentences of "that [pron] wife have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is that I do not , on the grounds that had I heard about the invitation my justification would have been defeated , you have a duty to give some account of why the ( unknown to me ) truth that my wife has refused the invitation does not somehow redress the balance . |
| 2 | During the game the FRAMPTON ROVERS full back heard over the tannoy that his wife had given birth to a healthy baby boy . |
| 3 | He also denied that his wife had given him any details of who she was supposed to be meeting at TVL at the time of the party . |
| 4 | Letters of her own to a friend had been pulled out of a waste-paper basket by the friend 's husband , who did a jigsaw puzzle of the bits to find if there were signs that his wife had complained of him . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't need , perhaps , to underline to you the temptation that faced Mr Stratton , himself a virtually penniless man , and a man who knew for such seems to be the case — that his wife had run through almost all of the considerable money she had inherited from her first husband . ’ |
| 6 | It was an added bonus that his wife had trained as a nurse . |
| 7 | Julius was about to learn that his wife had developed a mind and a will of her own . |
| 8 | Last December an appeal court ordered the retrial of a convicted murderer when it was revealed that his wife had had an affair with his lawyer . |
| 9 | The faint waft of the regiment of unwashed drifted down the carriage as he carried on his harangue , vouchsafing the information that his wife had divorced him , not the other way round . |
| 10 | When Count Philip of Flanders suspected that his wife had committed adultery with Gautier de Fontaines he had the young man killed by hanging him upside down in a cess-pit . |
| 11 | In the next scene Macbeth , speaking alone and with no need to deceive anyone ( given the convention in Elizabethan drama that what characters say in soliloquy is true ) , admits the evil of their ‘ deep intent ’ : Duncan is ‘ clear ’ , really has that freedom from guilt or stain that his wife had urged Macbeth to assume : in a sense he tries to do so here , in his defence of Duncan 's right to be treated with love and respect , and in his invocation of ‘ pity ’ , that constant test of humanity in Shakespeare . |
| 12 | However , love or no love , Martin had arrived at the gallery one morning , with his small baby in his arms , and the news that his wife had left him , and the clear expectation of help of some kind from Clelia . |
| 13 | ‘ No , not really , ’ he replied , and Rachel remembered that his wife had left him , then as she turned to go he suddenly spoke again . |
| 14 | He asked a senior nursing sister , who a few weeks earlier he had told that his wife had left him , for time off and left at 4.30pm . |
| 15 | He told me that his wife had left him and she had told him that the baby she was carrying was not his . ’ |
| 16 | did n't say I did n't like him , just said that his wife had left him |
| 17 | All that she really learned about him was that yes , he was a psychiatrist — ‘ one of the dissertation writers ’ , as he referred to himself-and that his wife had died after an illness about five years before . |
| 18 | Later , Christie told Evans that the abortion had failed and that his wife had died . |
| 19 | With the illicit amorous adventures of wives in the situation of the eternal triangle ( husband , wife , lover ) being the most common single dramatic type in the fabliaux , the most frequent type as the object of ridicule is the deceived husband , often not merely cuckolded but on occasion beaten or otherwise degraded or abused as well ; and what is more after all this sometimes so utterly deceived that he remains happy in the delusion that his wife has proved herself faithful to him . |
| 20 | To get the divorce you have to show that your wife has behaved in such a way that you ‘ can not reasonably be expected ’ to live with her . |