Example sentences of "whose wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be termed an uncomely version of what happens to Patrick , whose wife discovers that , at long last , she is pregnant . |
| 2 | Lord Howard de Walden , a former Senior Steward of the Jockey Club , whose wife owns Spritsail , joked afterwards : ‘ The price was wrong at Ascot . ’ |
| 3 | Margaret Lockwood plays a nurse who , on the eve of a bank holiday , has to console a man whose wife has just died in childbirth . |
| 4 | But yesterday , on his 91st birthday , Trafford , whose wife died in sheltered accommodation four years ago , told a community nursing conference in London that , though a Tory voter all his life who thought most of what Mrs Thatcher was doing was good , he saw a danger that old people might be heading back towards the workhouse if the Government went ahead with NHS cuts and changes in community care . |
| 5 | The third duke , whose wife had left him , set up a lady friend here ; and what more perfect house could exist for romantic visitations ? |
| 6 | The Lord Chamberlain , who acts as head of the royal household , is the Earl of Airlie , an Old Etonian banker whose wife , Virginia , is a longstanding Lady of the Bedchamber and whose younger brother , the Hon. |
| 7 | Mompesson , whose wife was among those to succumb , wrote that Eyam had become ‘ a Golgotha — a place of skulls ; and had there no been a small remnant of us left , we had been as Sodom and Gomorrah . |
| 8 | The extract is from a biography of Mr Major 's favourite author , Anthony Trollope , whose wife 's maiden name was … |
| 9 | Mr Don Dovaston , assistant chief constable of Derbyshire , named one of the terrorists being sought for the murder of the Army recruitment soldier as Joseph Philip Magee , 26 , whose wife and sister live in Derby and who detectives believe acted as the getaway driver for the gunman and his accomplice who killed Sgt Michael Newman , 34 . |
| 10 | George I died in June 1727 , whilst on a visit to Hanover , and he was succeeded by the more cultured George II , whose wife was Caroline of Anspach , and she fitted well into London . |
| 11 | By 1764 the estate was held by the fifth Duke of Devonshire , whose wife , Georgina , was Earl Spencer 's daughter , and she became the popular hostess in the many entertainments for which Chiswick House became famous . |
| 12 | British consul at Silver-store , a self-important man who becomes governor of the island and a KCB : ‘ a stiff-jointed , high-nosed old gentleman , without an ounce of fat on him , of a very angry temper and a very yellow complexion ’ , whose wife ‘ making allowances for differences of sex , was much the same ’ . |
| 13 | Lord Eversley , whose wife had just died , did not attend at all . |
| 14 | So very reluctantly they took me to the home of a local merchant whose wife 's health had been the reason for their not taking anyone so far . |
| 15 | ‘ It happened , he says , because of a prince of the Turcomans called Uzum Hasan whose wife was a princess of Trebizond . |
| 16 | It might be in order to lend three times the income of an applicant whose wife was also working , there were no children , a significant salary increase was likely and he had no outstanding hire purchase commitments , but not in less favourable circumstances . |
| 17 | Weller plays the Burroughs character , a roach-exterminator whose wife , played by Judy Davis , turns him on to his own insecticide . |
| 18 | I shook his hand , like this ’ ) whose wife has married someone else . |
| 19 | Waiting at the airport is the Mercedes limousine taxi of Monsieur Leclerc , one of the best-known local characters , whose wife runs a bed-and-breakfast business at her spotless guest house downtown . |
| 20 | whose wife had a tapeworm |
| 21 | The Princess Royal would make a much stronger ruler than poor old Prince Charles , whose wife has run rings round him . |
| 22 | DETECTIVES hunting a man whose wife and two sons were murdered on the Bergerac island of Jersey discovered his body on wasteland yesterday . |
| 23 | Sir Edward , whose wife Virginia is the niece of Lord Astor , said he had not had an annus horribilis . |
| 24 | THE Army Major whose wife ran over and killed his lover has finally been stripped of his rank . |
| 25 | ALISTAIR Bell , whose wife was found murdered in a sports centre car park , won undisclosed libel damages in the High Court yesterday over a story linking him with her death . |
| 26 | Grant , whose wife Dawn died in October following a long battle with cancer , added : ‘ The boss always used to say to me how tough Dawn was , but there was no one tougher than Arthur . ’ |
| 27 | Pressure in this sense was exercised by the customers , and especially by the customer with whose wife the employee had an affair . |
| 28 | In 1981 , Enver Hoxha , whose wife Nexhmije controlled ideology , suddenly denounced his prime minister of a quarter of a century 's standing , Mehmet Shehu , as an agent of Yugoslavia , the CIA , and the Gestapo . |
| 29 | There was fury from John Gallagher , whose wife and mother-in-law were the fatal crash victims . |
| 30 | Whose wife will she be at the resurrection ? |