Example sentences of "[vb past] his [adj] wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MAN who beat his unfaithful wife to death after she viciously grabbed his testicles was jailed for six years yesterday . |
| 2 | He he divorced his second wife cos she thought more of anim animals . |
| 3 | Yet he soon divorced his first wife , quite casually , to cement a treaty against his brother Carloman , and certainly paid little or no attention to orthodox Christian morality . |
| 4 | He had by this time divorced his first wife . |
| 5 | He met Paula , described by workmates as popular and outgoing , in 1988 the year that he divorced his first wife . |
| 6 | A man lured his estranged wife to her death by claiming he wanted to discuss a problem with one of their children , a jury has been hearing . |
| 7 | When Elizabeth discovered this clandestine liaison , she was livid and when , some short time later , it was discovered that Dudley found his second wife an inconvenience and tried to poison her , the whole Amy Robsart affair flared up once more . |
| 8 | It was his soft eyes that had put her at ease the first time she met him , when she timidly knocked at his door just a few years ago , the evening when Fred employed a helper and found his future wife . |
| 9 | Harry Pascoe returned from these sporting festivities scratched all over from fighting among the gorse bushes on Pencarrow Head , and found his new wife in her new kitchen . |
| 10 | But Rochester did er did er , when he was trying to rebuke himself for committing what was bigamy , and the works , he said , when he compared his own wife , who was really a mental animal because she very bestial the way she bit people , and then , he compared her with this sweet , dewy-eyed Jane , he did give a reason did n't he ? |
| 11 | When he was offered the Rangers job , he told his estranged wife that there was no way he would become a sterotypical manager ‘ working all hours and driving myself crazy ’ . |
| 12 | The notorious Dr Crippen , he pointed out , in fact murdered his assertive wife only because he was too vain simply to run away from her and make himself a target for scorn . |
| 13 | A JILTED husband stole a plane and dive-bombed his estranged wife 's home . |
| 14 | My father feared my mother as much as I did and wished me to please and agree with her always , for when I did not she would complain to him of my behaviour and I suspected that when this happened his new wife would complain in her turn that he paid too much attention to us and too little to her and her own children . |
| 15 | He got out with a fractured skull — but had a mental blackout and forgot his beautiful wife Kathy had been sitting beside him . |
| 16 | A MAN killed his estranged wife , their two young daughters and his mother and father-in-law before turning his gun on himself . |
| 17 | A MAN who killed his cheating wife walked free yesterday after a judge heard how he had dedicated his life to his family . |
| 18 | ‘ The Crown 's case is that on the morning of 31 October , 1991 , in a storeroom at the rear of their home , he clubbed his young wife to death with a lump hammer . ’ |
| 19 | Hull Crown Court heard his estranged wife Jackie was left covered in cuts and bruises and with two black eyes after being kicked and punched for three hours . |
| 20 | Although diagnosed as having a weak heart in 1948 , he survived his first wife and married again at the age of 85 . |
| 21 | Fred watched his young wife go through her weekly ritual thinking how beautiful she looked . |
| 22 | When the Vichy government confiscated his property early in the war , Service brought his French wife and their daughter to Vancouver for the duration . |
| 23 | Later he married abroad , and when Margery was about sixty years old brought his German wife and child on a visit to her , but died when he had been in England about a month . |
| 24 | Characteristically , Dall first met his present wife Helena in a cafe in Patagonia 14 years ago . |
| 25 | His father owned several mills , not just in North Carolina , and Stanley Pons worked in one of these in Louisiana where he met his present wife , Sheila , and then he became manager of a restaurant that the family owned in Palm Beach Florida . |
| 26 | Soon after he met his second wife , Hannah Anderson , a publican 's daughter from Gateshead , Gallacher was arrested for brawling with her brother under Newcastle 's High Level Bridge . |
| 27 | It was here that he met his future wife , Jan , and the pair eventually set up their own practice . |
| 28 | There he met his future wife , Idayu Njoman Rai , said to belong to a Brahman family . |
| 29 | It was four years ago that Billy Wright was Best Man at his cousin 's wedding and were he first met his future wife . |
| 30 | Simon first met his future wife whilst on holiday in Majorca three years ago . |