Example sentences of "whose husband " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phipps 's latest conquest — he rarely went long without excitement — had been the childless and bored Mrs Venables , whose cake was the last he 'd tasted , and whose husband was the local chemist . |
| 2 | She rented rooms from a woman whose husband died in Suez and had left her a small income and a house in Whitcher Place . |
| 3 | ‘ It was his feeling that in any country , even if there is war , there is time for negotiations , ’ said Mrs Sisulu , whose husband , Walter , a former secretary-general of the ANC and a close friend of Mr Mandela , is to be freed from prison . |
| 4 | A woman from Nairobi who is a laundry worker in North London but whose husband works in a bank told me about her daughter . |
| 5 | He puts the case for Xanthippe ( aka Mrs Socrates ) , whose husband 's ‘ homosexual leanings , his absent-minded behaviour , his idleness and his love of proving everyone wrong would have endeared him to no wife of mettle . ’ |
| 6 | When Caius is mentioned as being a husband , our minds are led to a woman whose husband he is . |
| 7 | She had arranged to go and live with a niece , whose husband was out of work ; the couple would look after the old lady together . |
| 8 | During our work with this widow , whose husband had died very unexpectedly , it turned out that since the time of his death until the time she contacted us , she had kept herself in a state of perpetual motion between her house and that of her son who lived some fifty miles away . |
| 9 | She was an English woman , now widowed , whose husband had come from County Galway . |
| 10 | ‘ They said he is a great big boney giraffe of a horse but we were determined to prove them wrong , ’ said Mrs Mary Stoddart , whose husband , David , bred the horse . |
| 11 | The fact was that his own heart had grown irresistibly fond of the love of his life , Senora Isabel-Maria Estanguet de Moss , whose husband had just been posted to the Argentinian Embassy in Brussels . |
| 12 | Mrs Anne Lennox , whose husband , Sqn Ldr Garry Lennox , was shot down and killed over Iraq , said that the three RAF widows would have to undergo ‘ demeaning means tests ’ years from now if they wanted something from the fund . |
| 13 | A wife whose husband had had multiple sclerosis and went to a holiday home for the disabled for two weeks to give her a rest said : |
| 14 | Anne 's closest friend was Sarah Churchill , whose husband was created Duke of Marlborough in 1702 , and who won a resounding victory against the French troops of Louis XIV at Blenheim in 1704 , followed in later years by many other victories , which included the acquisition of Gibraltar , in which Admiral Rooke took a major part . |
| 15 | Mrs. Norton , whose husband gave the Henley Ladies ' Club the trophy still known today as the Norton Cup , was to become the first Lady Rathcreedan in 1916 . |
| 16 | Mrs Taylor from the Welcome Café , whose husband had summoned the police at the discovery of Oliver 's body , said that between 4.15 and 4.30 on 22 June a man resembling the description given by others had staggered into her café . |
| 17 | Equally loyal and effective was the Lady-in-Waiting , the Duchess de Bassano , whose husband was Grand Chamberlain of the Court , and whose devotion to their sovereigns was such that they followed them into exile , remaining faithful unto death . |
| 18 | When this honest but somewhat unusual messiah delivers his message to a neurotic undersexed housewife ( Andie MacDowell ) whose husband is having an affair with her sister , fur flies . |
| 19 | Economic pressures belong with Joanna 's mother , whose husband left her with three school-going children ; Helen 's lecturing post in another country is a career move . |
| 20 | John gave the leading part , of the woman whose husband is drowned , to a young dancer he had not previously created for , although he had partnered her in Khadra , Sheilah O'Reilly . |
| 21 | While a woman whose husband had an affair said : |
| 22 | And to Marion McKnaught , whose husband appears to have been falsely accused in the local town council , he wrote , |
| 23 | widow whose husband had ‘ broken his heart of the Peruvian mines ’ some forty years ago . |
| 24 | I ate at the Corner House , very little , as it was not easy to pay the modest sum my landlady in Southwark , Mrs William Vitou , whose husband was a dental mechanic trained in Guy 's hospital , charged me , and eat a great deal apart from breakfast and a high tea . |
| 25 | One widow whose husband had died shortly after they had both retired felt that it was the practical aspect of life that heightened her feelings of loneliness and loss : |
| 26 | Another friend , whose husband is a farmer , shares the care of her parents , who live in a neighbouring village , with a married sister , who also lives nearby . |
| 27 | A wife whose husband had taken a girl out on a number of occasions would tell the counsellor , ‘ This time it 's different — they 've slept together . ’ |
| 28 | In the Stapleton chapel is a memorial carving of Lady Elizabeth Stapleton , whose husband was the General of HM Horse at the battle of Edgehill in 1642 . |
| 29 | Eileen Kinnaird , whose husband Rick was a prime mover of the event , led an all-girl team soon to be known as the ‘ Mama-Sans ’ which made its mark by beating the men on a disqualification . |
| 30 | Aunt Tinty , an amiable half-wit , keeps house for him and sings sentimental songs in the gloaming ; her daughter , Margaret , is a heavily pregnant , rather mannish woman doctor whose husband is far away ; her son , Tom , is an eternal and drunken medical student , engaged in a squalid affair with the woman at the village pub . |