Example sentences of "[unc] wife at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We opt for The Baker 's Wife at the Phoenix and all vote it a definite winner , and I wonder again at the jaundiced palate of critics who gave it a fair old drubbing when it first trotted out . |
| 2 | The warden 's wife at the Beinn Eighe Nature Reserve told me the no doubt apocryphal tale of a traveller in Northern Canada laboriously taking down phonetic notes from an Inuit pointing to various landmarks in his territory . |
| 3 | There was Miguel , huge and thick-set with a permanently-hard ugly smirk on his face , and lithe , handsome Juan , whom she 'd last seen being forcibly ejected for bonking his host 's wife at the Waterlane 's party , both swinging their sticks round and round to loosen up their shoulders . |
| 4 | I felt she was condescending to me — like a don condescending to some poor don 's wife at the annual garden party , asking about her social work , her charitable committees . |
| 5 | ‘ When we started in 1983 , the image of the old farmer 's wife at the stove was what we had in mind , ’ Charles explained . |
| 6 | The first concerned the landlord 's wife at the Packet Inn . |