Example sentences of "of his [adj] wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Tarrant — kindly portrayed in The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans as Mr Stodham — later introduced Edward to Mr Noble ( the father of his future wife ) who was slowly dying of a malignant , tubercular throat disease but was still actively engaged as ‘ Paul Pelican ’ , an influential journalist and critic . |
| 2 | His parents already doubted Angel 's religious belief , so they were almost relieved to hear this of his future wife . |
| 3 | There it is said the ghost of his departed wife pleaded with him to proceed no further . |
| 4 | Van Butchell kept a diary of the embalming of his 36-year-old wife , which took a month to perfect . |
| 5 | CELEBRITY chef Marco Pierre White leapt to the aid of his estranged wife Lisa Butcher yesterday . |
| 6 | Then he held two men friends of his estranged wife at gunpoint and forced them to drive him 200 miles to her secret address at Barrow-in- Furness , Cumbria . |
| 7 | His maiden speech , ostensibly a conventional attack on placemen , was directed at the prince regent who , provoked by Bennet 's championship of his estranged wife , labelled him ‘ factious ’ . |
| 8 | In London on 29 September 1900 she married the painter , Count Casimir Dunvin-Markievicz , son of a Polish landowner in the Ukraine , after the death of his estranged wife . |
| 9 | 2 detectives knocked on the door , and arrested Jonathan Probyn in connection with the death of his estranged wife Tania . |
| 10 | John Hickey , 42 , of Quarry Road , Silksworth , Sunderland , will appear before a special sitting of Sunderland magistrates today charged with the murder of his estranged wife . |
| 11 | So was ‘ The Tinker 's Grace ’ , purporting to be Bunyan 's prison musings on Divine Grace , and so was Pedro of Portugal 's rapt and bizarre declaration of love , in 1356 , for the embalmed corpse of his murdered wife , Iñez de Castro , who swayed beside him on his travels , leather-brown and skeletal , crowned with lace and gold circlet , hung about with chains of diamonds and pearls , her bone-fingers fantastically ringed . |
| 12 | Then he disappeared leaving the running of his 200 acre farm in the hands of his distrought wife and friends . |
| 13 | For the past year Maureen Timmins has been corresponding with him in San Quentin jail where he 's waiting execution for the murder of his pregnant wife . |
| 14 | By Paul Byrne , crime reporter A MAN appeared at Liverpool Crown Court today charged with the murder of his pregnant wife . |
| 15 | Josiah sailed to America in 1683 and Benjamin was born there 23 years later , the seventh child of his second wife . |
| 16 | Now that we have in print the diary of his second wife , and his correspondence with Dame Margaret , Lloyd George 's private morality can be viewed in historical terms . |
| 17 | In about 1744 , shortly after the death of his second wife , Hoare dammed the Stour to create the lake in the gardens and called upon Henry Flitcroft [ q.v. ] to design the temples around it . |
| 18 | During these years Lambarde , after the death of his second wife , spent quite a lot of his time in London , and it was the fashionable thing in London for men of rank and members of Inns of Court to visit the Shakespearean theatre , while the plays were also performed in the Grays Inn Hall , before crowded audiences of Benchers , Lawyers and friends . |
| 19 | If Pound had attended to Thomas Hardy 's marriage to Florence Emily Dugdale within two years of the death of his first wife , Emma , there can be little doubt that this is the verdict he would have passed on the transaction . |
| 20 | In 4 BC Antipater , son of his first wife Doris , was also executed shortly before Herod 's own death in the same year . |
| 21 | Nor did he ever speak of his first wife , her mother . |
| 22 | He took it out on Scarlet in the same way as he avenged himself on her for the pressures at work and the demands of his first wife . |
| 23 | She had somehow found it difficult to defend Brian against the accusations of his first wife , who held that he was inept and ineffectual in the field of human relationships . |
| 24 | On 11 June 1787 he married Friedericke Kottewski ( the fate of his first wife is unknown ) . |
| 25 | Curwen 's interest in agriculture probably dated from a long journey through Europe following the death of his first wife in 1778 . |
| 26 | On 16 June 1927 , after the death of his first wife , he married Marie Theresa Laura , daughter of Thomas William Moore of London , theatrical manager and co-founder of the Moore and Burgess Minstrels . |
| 27 | He set up in the West End of London in 1912 , following the death of his first wife and only daughter , having realized that property deals yielded far better returns in the metropolis than in the provinces . |
| 28 | ( During the lifetime of his first wife he had also had estate responsibilities at Banbury in Oxfordshire and Kirtling in Cambridgeshire . ) |
| 29 | Nothing is known of his first wife whom he married c .1730 , but they had two daughters . |
| 30 | Li Shai Tung woke , drenched in sweat , the dream of his first wife , Lin Yua and that dreadful night so clear that , for a moment , he thought the banging on the doors a part of it . |