Example sentences of "[v-ing] her [adj] husband " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He watched her marry and divorce twice , before becoming her third husband , three years ago . |
| 2 | Or perhaps not , if she retained enough satisfaction in keeping her boring husband on the hook . |
| 3 | Julie could see the tears in her eyes as she re-read the sheet of paper , touching her dead husband 's name with her fingers as she read . |
| 4 | Just like poor old George , thought Nelly with a pang , remembering her late husband . |
| 5 | The evening class had been Amanda 's way of escaping her boring husband for a few hours . |
| 6 | Why should she feel guilty of deceiving her devoted husband , she asked herself , if it was only in her thoughts ? |
| 7 | After the scandalous murder of her secretary and the rumours surrounding her dismal husband , Queen Mary was anxious to re-establish her qualifications for wise , firm rule . |
| 8 | The old lady was defiantly wearing her dead husband 's Legion d'honneur about her neck . |
| 9 | Scarlet had found it all very puzzling and upsetting : she could n't envisage herself telephoning her first husband 's second wife to complain about her child — even if they had n't gone to Australia . |
| 10 | In May 1991 Rajiv Gandhi 's widow , Sonia Gandhi , had refused the presidency of the Congress ( I ) [ see p. 38175 ] , and in October she had decided against contesting her late husband 's constituency [ see p. 38532 ] . |
| 11 | She wo n't thank you for blackening her late husband 's name . ’ |
| 12 | In the past , Debbie has denied infuriating her less-ebullient husband by dancing on a table to the song I 'm Too Sexy . |
| 13 | At one point in an art gallery , I turned to see a formidable-looking woman dragging her recalcitrant husband and children in my direction . |
| 14 | It was essentially a masculine code , and those who often find it unacceptable in fiction may find some support in the comment of the Duchess of Omnium , regarding her noble husband 's often inconvenient scruples , that ‘ Men should n't be made of Sèvres china , but of good stone earthenware ’ . |
| 15 | But it was only when Raine , now 62 , decided the sightings were upset-ting her ailing husband that she decided to try to kill off the spook . |
| 16 | Peggy saw with some dismay that she wore the distant smile of a woman reviewing her late husband 's insurance position . |
| 17 | Ruby claims her illness was caused by washing her late husband 's overalls . |
| 18 | Marcelle Tweed , 50 , is used to people mistaking her 27-year-old husband Paul for her son . |
| 19 | A WOMAN jailed for life for murdering her violent husband was granted a retrial yesterday . |
| 20 | Meanwhile their investigation had received help from Roxie Farmer 's reluctant admission that her brother had been staying with her , and that he had gone off one day , borrowing her former husband 's bike , and had come back with blood on him . |
| 21 | Battered wives like Sara Thornton — serving life for killing her violent husband — were always in her thoughts . |