Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anybody who 's not a shrink ( or my wife ) only sees an ink blot when they look at one . |
| 2 | I think there is a lot of immaturity in it and selfishness , putting yourself at great risk for a photograph , selfish in the sense of your family ; I 'm not so much worried about me as about the effect it will have on my parents , my children or my wife . |
| 3 | If anyone of you is troubled or needs help please do n't hesitate to contact me or my wife . |
| 4 | ‘ The press have been decent about it for years ; even the Opposition has n't suggested that his attitudes affected my credibility or my wife 's . |
| 5 | ‘ I make no judgments on man or woman , perhaps because I make no judgments on myself — or my wife I 've managed to preserve a friendship between husband and wife living thousands of miles apart , and that 's nae a bad achievement . ’ |
| 6 | They then pass the manuscripts to me , and I or my wife type the journal to a computer file . |
| 7 | or I was frightened , or my wife was pregnant , |
| 8 | Erm I 've been off work in excess of five years now er add my income has been very very small and whatever award I get will never go ahead and compensate me or my wife for what I 've been through . |
| 9 | Pride , envy , selfishness , resentment , kindness , self-respect , good-heartedness , ambition , every quality of character there is will be revealed in the way that someone talks — about their mother , say , their colleagues or their wife . |
| 10 | or their wife 's tits ? |
| 11 | Or their wife 's tits |
| 12 | Some MPs , or their wives , amended their guest lists . |
| 13 | When she was n't explaining that she and the libbers were on the same side really , Mrs Travers took pains to point out that FAMILY had no quarrel with the poor or socially inadequate ; it was just that she wanted to pay tribute to the unsung millions of women ( and men ) who lived normal lives , did not swap roles , get divorces or abortions , become homeless or batter their children ( or their wives ) ; people who faced misfortune with re-sourcefulness and courage and without recourse to public funds . |
| 14 | In the first case , he feared me as many men fear women : because their mistresses ( or their wives ) understand them . |
| 15 | Last weekend , as you will know by now , we briefly overlapped with a bevy of V.C.s from British Universities and the Director-General of the British council & his wife before we left Sian . |
| 16 | My cousins , & his wife , , sailed from Victoria , via Vancouver to spend a day with us in Seattle ( we had already met them at an all-family-reunion wedding in Cheltenham in August . ) . |
| 17 | By his own account , Mr Tyson is thrifty and states quite proudly that neither he or his wife Rosie are a burden on any form of social or government support . |
| 18 | In a period of ten years he recorded at least thirty proven cases of clairvoyance between himself , or his wife , and a horse . |
| 19 | Of the volume Henry Jones published in 1749 nearly half the poems have in their titles the name of some eminent person , while the volume as a whole is dedicated to Chesterfield and five individual pieces to him or his wife . |
| 20 | He can obtain from the chief executive or clerk of the authority an appropriate form and this will then save him from making repeated disclosures at any time when any matter in which he or his wife is interested is being discussed . |
| 21 | A tradition says that the Emperor 's wife was ill with a disease that baffled the native doctors but the letter which was carried by the Ambassador suggests the true reason ; the Emperor 's sexual ability seems to have been causing him more concern than either his own or his wife 's health as he asked that the physician should bring ‘ some medicines that would provoke the venery ( encourage sexual indulgence ) ’ , in other words , he wanted an aphrodisiac . |
| 22 | The latter was very likely his misfortune , or his wife 's . |
| 23 | It was bad enough he himself trying to turn into an amateur psychiatrist or psychotherapist or whatever they liked to call themselves , but to have some strange layman taking an interest in his wife , or his wife 's case , was altogether too much . |
| 24 | This can have a rather unsettling effect over a long period — the family man can not promise to take his children to the seaside or his wife out to dinner more than a week ahead without the chance that he might be in India , California or Scotland at the time he promised . |
| 25 | It was as if he were still competing for Martha : every return to harbour became a race between his ketch and Sam 's ; every catch had to be compared for weight and quality , and every new little luxury Harry purchased for himself or his wife had to be announced that evening in the Russell alehouse as further proof of his superiority . |
| 26 | I am fairly constantly approached either by the honour-seeker or his wife to assist him to feature in the list . |
| 27 | Or his wife , even — she turns against him . |
| 28 | Before either the Rector or his wife could speak again Louisa hurried from the room . |
| 29 | He had no taste for further encounters with either Cunningham or his wife . |
| 30 | At least let me know of your address , even if you feel you can not tell the Ambassador , your uncle , or his wife where you are . |