Example sentences of "and his [adj] wife " in BNC.
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1 | It is run by George Vasilas and his Irish wife and it is exclusive to Club 18–30 . |
2 | When Tony Eley and his Irish wife Mary purchased Braemount House in 1986 they were newcomers to the hospitality business ; Mary had retired from the nursing profession and Tony from the Royal Air Force . |
3 | His brilliant work has already brought out the very best in Brigitte Bardot , Raquel Welch , Britt Ekland and his former wife Faye Dunaway , among countless Hollywood stars . |
4 | Candidate Florio and his blonde wife , Lucinda , had no choice but to pose with the property developer from the Jersey waterfront before moving on past three mediocre belly-dancers , a man ( on stilts ) dressed up as Abraham Lincoln and an actor dressed up as Rip Van Winkle . |
5 | He and his blonde wife , Adrienne , a Klanswoman who is expecting their first child next month , now have to be careful , they say . |
6 | Heini and his fifth wife , Carmen — Tita to her friends — are thus free to concentrate on his art collection , the world 's most valuable in private hands , if you exclude those of the Queen and of Prince Hans Adam of Liechtenstein . |
7 | Sally-Anne Tunstall , beloved daughter of Senator Jared Tunstall , arguably the richest man in the USA , and his dear wife Mary , niece of Orrin Tunstall , the American ambassador , society beauty , heiress , spoiled child of fortune , who had once thought that the world was her ball to play with , sat on her bed in an East End attic , dressed in her skivvy 's clothing , grieving because she could not consummate her love for a poor doctor who had renounced the world over which she had once reigned . |
8 | ALCOHOLIC Keith Chegwin and his estranged wife Maggie Philbin yesterday refused to say if they were getting back together . |
9 | THE wayward Marquis of Blandford and his estranged wife Becky had a blazing row yesterday … hours after they were reported to have patched up their rift . |
10 | Seemingly more interested in spoiling tactics than news values , The Sun gave the supposed transcript of an alleged row between Prince Charles and his estranged wife far more prominence than it deserved . |
11 | After Wilde 's release in 1897 and his exile to France , Ross continued to befriend and support him , and to act as intermediary between Wilde and his estranged wife and her advisers . |
12 | They did indeed put the kettle on , but then the Bishop took it off again and said he needed a drink more , oh , that poor fellow ; and his wife said , ‘ And his poor wife . ’ |
13 | weeks ago and his poor wife was absolutely devastated |
14 | Last December , when £2 million was suggested as the likely price for their property , Mr Widdup and his 62-year-old wife made it clear they would not sell at any price . |
15 | Lucky Ebenezer , 74 , and his 75-year-old wife , who has been fitted with a heart pacemaker , will now be taking life much easier at their home in Aberystwyth , west Wales . |
16 | So was his position as heir presumptive , a necessary acknowledgement in order to remove any doubt created by the fact that he was the son of a divorced father and his second wife . |
17 | Bob and his second wife Beryl , 49 , say they 'd never sell their dream house — estimated to be worth £500,000 . |
18 | The 60,000-acre estate is home to the duke , 37 , and his second wife , former interior designer Virginia Wynne-Williams . |
19 | These telephone calls provoke long and furious rows between Mr Smith and his second wife . |
20 | These telephone calls provoke long and furious rows between Mr Smith and his second wife . |
21 | It mentioned that he lived with his mother , Lady Ursula Berowne , and his second wife in one of the few extant houses built by Sir John Soane and that he had one child by his first marriage , 24-year-old Sarah Berowne , who was active in left-wing politics and who was thought to be estranged from her father . |
22 | In all , he 's given over $1 billion to charity , retaining about $1.4 billion for himself , his daughter and his second wife Leonore . |
23 | One or two , like his solicitor and his second wife 's psychiatrist , took their leave after no more than 90 minutes . |
24 | Burun was sitting on a chest which had been used to carry the food , and his second wife , Kiku , whom men called the Regal Lily , was standing behind him dressing his hair while he admired himself in a hand-held mirror . |
25 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
26 | , Henry George Bonavia- ( 1847–1917 ) , founder of Trinity College of Music , London , was born 30 June 1847 in Valetta , Malta , the eldest surviving son of William Hunt , former private secretary to the bishop of Jerusalem , and his second wife , Marietta Bonavia , daughter of a Maltese doctor of Italian extraction . |
27 | , Charles Eamer ( 1837–1907 ) , artist in stained glass and church decoration , was born 29 June 1837 at Ovingdean Hall , Sussex , the fifth son and seventh and last child of Nathaniel Kemp , JP who died when his son was six , and his second wife Augusta Caroline , the daughter of Sir John Eamer , a former lord mayor of London . |
28 | At some stage he married again and his second wife predeceased him . |
29 | , Johann Christian ( 1735–1782 ) , composer , was born 5 September 1735 in Leipzig , the sixth and youngest son and the eleventh of the thirteen children of Johann Sebastian Bach and his second wife Anna Magdalena , daughter of Johann Caspar Wilcke , court trumpeter . |
30 | , Emily Wilding ( 1872–1913 ) , feminist , was born in Blackheath , London , 11 October 1872 , the second of three children and elder daughter of Charles Davison , businessman , and his second wife Margaret Caisley , who had been a housekeeper before marriage . |