Example sentences of "[subord] his [adj] wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although his new wife knew of his past , including the part played by Sara Hart and her two young offspring , Tawell could not ignore them and decided to do something about it . |
| 2 | If his new wife has a child I will become like a servant . |
| 3 | If his first wife can not afford to live without benefit support from the rest of us , which is what state benefit is , the government has no money , it takes money out of other families who are struggling to bring their children up to give it to you . |
| 4 | He may have gone to Italy in order to escape the regime of Queen Mary I , and his support of the Protestant settlement of 1559 was clear , but his credit suffered because his Catholic wife practised her faith within his household . |
| 5 | The loss of income is a particularly hard blow for Joe because his Lebanese-born wife Elham was duped three times during his captivity into paying ransom money for his safe return . |
| 6 | She had refused to breast-feed her two children because she thought it disgusting , and my father in middle age had spent many wakeful nights , not cavorting in the pleasure grounds of a foreign city , but walking the floor feeding his children from a bottle while his new wife lay in a sedative-induced slumber . |
| 7 | Just as Jennie had been on the sidelines while his first wife was alive , Mary became his mistress almost immediately he went through his second marriage ceremony . |
| 8 | Julia found herself wanting to get to know her better , quite certain by then that whatever there had been between Suvarov and Felicity while his first wife was alive it had not been the kind of affair David had assumed . |
| 9 | Maurice Fermoy became the Conservative Member of Parliament for King 's Lynn while his Scottish wife , who gave up a promising career as a concert pianist to marry , founded the King 's Lynn Festival for Arts and Music which , since its inception in 1951 , has attracted world renowned musicians such as Sir John Barbirolli and Yehudi Menuhin . |
| 10 | But she also sensed how deep Hugo 's hurt ran and since his first wife 's death was also connected with the man she told herself it would be tasteless to dwell on it . |
| 11 | In recent years the press has had to challenge such diverse rulings as an order not to name a witness from a famous family lest publicity might interfere with her care for heroin addiction ; an order not to publish the address of a former Tory MP lest his estranged wife should discover his whereabouts and harass him , and an order that reporters should leave the court so that a distressed defendant could explain in privacy the matrimonial problems which drove her to drink before she drove her car . |
| 12 | JUST weeks before his pregnant wife was found hanging , a hospital technician was allowed home early from work after telling colleagues she had left him . |
| 13 | He died in Frith Street , at one of various lodgings after his second wife had left him . |
| 14 | After his first wife 's death , Deacon married Caroline Rutt of Islington , Middlesex , 27 November 1866 . |
| 15 | Detectives , who are treating the attack as arson and attempted murder , are hunting the baby 's father after his 31-year-old wife said he started the blaze . |
| 16 | ‘ Garry and I will get married after his dreary wife gives him a divorce . ’ |
| 17 | Clive Greenacre was not only put out when his agoraphobic wife started to express her anger about his callous behaviour , but also amazed by the sexual demands she then started to make on him . |
| 18 | Not that I 've any time for him any longer — going on like that when his poor wife was near her time . ’ |
| 19 | Misfortune struck Sir John when his second wife died ; she received the same treatment as his first spouse . |
| 20 | In fact , Peggy remembered her own mam saying as how there were certain folk , including herself , who believed it were Luther Reynolds ' fault when his second wife died of the fever . |
| 21 | But when his second wife Wendy became ill , incurring extra expenses , that was cut to a nominal five pence a year . |
| 22 | Pugin 's strict rules and principles were upheld in part to counteract the inordinate sadness he had suffered at the age of twenty-two , when his first wife died giving birth to their only daughter . |
| 23 | When his first wife died in 1751 , he went so far as to obtain a licence to marry a certain Hannah Laskey . |
| 24 | Sir John Pryce ( 1698–1761 ) of Newton , Glamorgan , was so distressed when his first wife died that he had the body embalmed and placed next to his bed . |
| 25 | Denis Cannan 's Dear Daddy ( 1976 ) , again , another successful stage comedy , tells of a virtuous middle-aged family man whose life is triumphantly self-organised down to its last petty details — exactly one-third of a bottle of wine at dinner every evening — until the comfortable domestic order he has created in his second marriage turns into an object of irrational despair to those around him ; and when his first wife , ruined by alcohol , abruptly re-enters his world , he is forced to accept a share of deferred responsibility for the wreckage of her life . |
| 26 | Byrne plays the young ragamuffins ' father , Papa Riley , a former leader of the travellers who went to pieces when his beloved wife died in childbirth and now subsists on cheap whisky and stale fags in a rundown council flat while his boyos fend for themselves . |
| 27 | Though his first wife remains a shadowy and rather pathetic figure about whom one longs to know more , there is plenty here on the crowded , ramshackle household and its often hand-to-mouth existence constructed entirely around the demands of the workaholic , temperamental sculptor — the hoarded treasures , the art and music which pervaded the house , the much loved but somewhat casually raised children , the constantly changing and eccentric cast of live-in models , nannies , general factotums , portrait sitters , studio visitors , plaster moulders , musicians , friends and members of the press who were usually given short shrift . |
| 28 | ‘ As for the manner of burial , ’ the lawyer said , ‘ it appears that your father wishes to be buried in the same place as his first wife . |
| 29 | Bernard VI , count of Armagnac , had married Isabelle d'Albret ( d. 1294 ) as his first wife , and Amanieu VII d'Albret 's eldest son Bernard-Ezi V ( 1326–59 ) was husband to Mathe d'Armagnac , Bernard VI 's daughter . |
| 30 | As his first wife , June Barry , recalls , Whitaker was at work on another project when a knock at the office door heralded the entrance of Donald Wilson . |