Example sentences of "[v-ing] her husband " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were tears , moments of high drama , flashes of comedy and bizarre touches — like opening her husband 's coffin to brush back his hair — and more tears . |
| 2 | Brenda Down ( below , with husband Wilfred , Rector of Marlborough ) works at Swindon College , partly for the money , partly to avoid becoming her husband 's unpaid curate |
| 3 | When the time came for the machine which had been keeping her husband alive to be turned off , my friend faced the reality of his condition and let him go . |
| 4 | But , keeping the matter to herself was also a way of protecting her husband : she wanted to believe the incident was all Phil 's fault , not Bernard 's . |
| 5 | Is not the wife while in desertion , bound in law to refrain from pledging her husband 's credit ? |
| 6 | Jamila was soon in the felicitous position of neither liking nor disliking her husband . |
| 7 | A little later , as filmmakers began to expend the medium 's storytelling capacities , they drew from the techniques developed for the magic lantern or diorama and audiences saw a woman interrupting her husband in the act of kissing the maid , or a miller grappling with chimney sweeps in front of a windmill . |
| 8 | It is rape to have sexual intercourse with a woman by impersonating her husband or by deceiving her as to the nature of the act . |
| 9 | She is the housewife , bearing , raising and socialising children , and succouring her husband 's and children 's emotional and physical needs ( Oakley , 1974 ) . |
| 10 | In the middle of this pother of boots , brothers , and boisterous behaviour , Leonora Hussey came in from the hall , greeting her daughter and chiding her husband for being so late back . |
| 11 | She does not become criminally liable merely by assisting her husband to escape punishment for a crime which she knows him to have committed ; and it is only within certain limits that husband and wife are competent , and within narrower limits that they are compellable , to give evidence against one another , in criminal proceedings . |
| 12 | She came through the front door of the shop and was a little surprised at not seeing her husband behind the counter . |
| 13 | Seeing her husband , she set it down by the back door and came across to the stable . |
| 14 | Virginia 's doctor , a self-important little man , had a patient once who lost her memory after the shock of seeing her husband fall to his death over a cliff . |
| 15 | However much , privately , she may have hated seeing her husband drink , or hearing him swear , she would never rebuke him in front of others . |
| 16 | Plaintiffs ' solicitors should remember that the range of claimants was extended by the decision of the House of Lords in McLoughlin v O'Brian [ 1982 ] 2 All ER 298 to include , in that case , a wife and mother who suffered nervous shock on seeing her husband and children apparently badly injured in hospital after an accident and learning that one child had died . |
| 17 | Prosecutors did not go ahead with charges that she plotted to handle part of the proceeds of the robbery by allowing her husband to buy her a Tudor mansion . |
| 18 | He had treated her for several months using her husband as an interpreter — as though her husband were an objective witness to her depression . |
| 19 | Freed of the responsibility of nursing her husband Lady Chatterley spends more time with the gamekeeper and eventually they both give in to their desire . |
| 20 | On two occasions she had to cancel engagements , on others she looked pale and sickly , acutely aware that she was not helping her husband . |
| 21 | People will argue that she did it as a good deed , in helping her husband 's friend . |
| 22 | ‘ He went all the way along it with a torch , ’ Mackie said , stroking her husband 's arm , ‘ clever thing — and he came back after absolutely ages with Gareth 's camera and said you were n't there . |
| 23 | I simply wish to point out that if it is supposed that Karen Parsons and I embarked that afternoon with the intention of drowning her husband , why did we wait till we had reached a point where our criminal acts were overlooked by at least fifteen witnesses ? |
| 24 | And doubting her husband on this point , she wondered if Timothy Gedge 's future was as bleak as he had forecast . |
| 25 | In contrast , there was only one case where the seduction of the under-age girl is quite explicit — A couple seduced virgin , 15 — but even here there was a ‘ blonde wife ’ aiding and abetting her husband in a kinky sex session . |
| 26 | It was there that Diana took her own revenge — by deliberately upstaging her husband . |
| 27 | She felt lonely and miserable , but she had not stopped loving her husband , in spite of her anxiety about his past . |
| 28 | ‘ Save us ! ’ the mother screamed , almost throttling her husband . |
| 29 | And , to be honest , one must admit there are cases here … when a wife is ill , for instance. , or when she refuses to perform her duties , thereby causing her husband unhappiness … |
| 30 | Not even Jane 's tender digestion would keep her from tonight 's dancing , and nor did she have any real fear of meeting her husband , for Jane well knew Sharpe 's reluctance to dance or to dress up in a frippery uniform , but the possibility of his presence was an alarming thought that she could not resist exploring . |