Example sentences of "and [pron] [adj] wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | you 're not only hurting me and my present wife and my two children , you are also hurting my ex-wife and my son . |
| 2 | I do n't know what happened to the front entrance , but there was a basement underneath there and my first wife was dancing in Harvey Martin 's dance hall underneath , her pal and herself she , they 'd gone to this dance it was a dancing lesson on a Saturday night it was famous in those days Harvey Martin 's dance class er yes I |
| 3 | glad of familiar accents and my dull wife . |
| 4 | So I 've only written about the women who were important in my life — my mother , my daughters and my two wives — and I write about them deeply . |
| 5 | And I 'm in the back in my little corner and my beloved wife Sandra walked in on what was , unbeknownst to her , this maniac , writing furious and tired . |
| 6 | Twenty-five years ago there were 144 people living there , mostly descendants of the original mutineers and their Tahitian wives . |
| 7 | Errant husbands and their unfaithful wives , bored concubines and their casual lovers , lecherous old men and randy widows , singsong girls and libertine young sons he could see it now , spreading like the leaves and branches of a great tree , until the tree itself rotted and fell . |
| 8 | Gleaming French cars nosed along the cluttered roadway bearing corpulent Chinese and their bejewelled wives or concubines in their curtained interiors , and the staccato , unmelodious babble of the Cantonese dialect had entirely replaced the softer , sibilant tones of the Annamese language . |
| 9 | It is run by George Vasilas and his Irish wife and it is exclusive to Club 18–30 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He and his blonde wife , Adrienne , a Klanswoman who is expecting their first child next month , now have to be careful , they say . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ALCOHOLIC Keith Chegwin and his estranged wife Maggie Philbin yesterday refused to say if they were getting back together . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | weeks ago and his poor wife was absolutely devastated |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Bob and his second wife Beryl , 49 , say they 'd never sell their dream house — estimated to be worth £500,000 . |
| 26 | The 60,000-acre estate is home to the duke , 37 , and his second wife , former interior designer Virginia Wynne-Williams . |
| 27 | These telephone calls provoke long and furious rows between Mr Smith and his second wife . |
| 28 | These telephone calls provoke long and furious rows between Mr Smith and his second wife . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In all , he 's given over $1 billion to charity , retaining about $1.4 billion for himself , his daughter and his second wife Leonore . |