Example sentences of "to his [adj] wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he has already made his will , yes , leaving all already to his future wife . |
| 2 | Bruce Forsyth to his future wife on The Generation Game |
| 3 | He was to give him a part which would take him into the West End a few months after leaving school , write a special role for him in what would be his first film , introduce him to his future wife and , through one of his sons , Brook , provide him with a lifelong younger ‘ brother ’ . |
| 4 | He spoke movingly of his time in the trenches in the First War and of how a whole generation , many of them his friends , had been wiped out , of the effect that the unemployment of the 1930s had on his political thinking , of how being Prime Minister was less demanding than being an ordinary Minister , of ( and this with tears in his eyes ) his devotion to his late wife , who had fallen dead of a heart attack close to where we were sitting , of his belief in God . |
| 5 | One morning a husband said to his newly-wed wife , ‘ Goodbye , darling . |
| 6 | … and in the arms of the law yesterday after his arrest for non-payment of maintenance to his now-estranged wife |
| 7 | What he has to come out with is not initially clear , but it becomes clearer when a taste of gay night-life turns him off , and he trails back to his dull wife . |
| 8 | Jenny has urgently advised Tim to return to his dull wife , telling him that her dullness is the ‘ whole point ’ . |
| 9 | Mr Higgs said Capper had been married to his 47-year-old wife Carol for six years , but it had been a stormy relationship and there were frequent drunken rows . |
| 10 | The women wait anxiously and when the boat returns one of its crew has been lost , causing inconsolable grief to his young wife . |
| 11 | Nellie 's last few words stayed in Fred 's mind and later , in the comfort of the cosy front room above the dining rooms , after Maisie had left , he was moved to speak to his young wife about what her mother had said to him . |
| 12 | Then to his beaming wife , ‘ Did you polish them for him ? ’ |
| 13 | Instead , he destabilized his own government by selecting totally inadequate ministers and , deferring to his hysterical wife , allowed the depraved ‘ holy man ’ Rasputin to tarnish his own popular image and that of tsarism itself . |
| 14 | AMERICAN senator Teddy Kennedy chose a novel way of proposing to his new wife , Vicky Reggie . |
| 15 | LOVELORN millionaire Bill Garwood , who bought the house next door to his estranged wife to try to win her back , yesterday conceded defeat . |
| 16 | He also packed a mean punch , according to his estranged wife Sheila . |
| 17 | A husband was jailed for attacking a man he found making love to his estranged wife . |
| 18 | To be truthful , I had forgotten about Earl Angus 's gift to his estranged wife but the two Highlanders still remembered us . |
| 19 | Cranog Jones , who sits on the Cheltenham bench , was charged with administering noxious gas to his estranged wife at their home in Brockhampton in Gloucestershire . |
| 20 | As he started a 112-day sentence in London 's Pentonville prison for failing to pay more than £10,000 in maintenance to his estranged wife Becky , the 37-year-old aristocrat also faced new charges of attacking police sent to arrest him . |
| 21 | The heir to the £100m Blenheim estate is set to serve 112 days for failing to pay more than £10,000 in maintenance to his estranged wife Becky , and now also faces new charges of attacking police sent to arrest him yesterday . |
| 22 | The Marquess was sent to Pentonville prison on Tuesday for failing to obey a High Court order to pay arrears of £10,534 to his estranged wife Becky and their son George . |
| 23 | Mr Justice Johnson , who jailed the 37year-old Marquess for failing to pay £10,534 to his estranged wife Becky , said he had been acting in excess of his powers when he imposed the sentence . |
| 24 | Most if it he knew : the copyright on his works to his wife Viola ; the manuscripts to his former wife Hilda Machin ; a small sum of money to his mother , still alive at the time of the making of the will . |
| 25 | The wording of the concession would seem to suggest that if the husband moves out of the matrimonial home and makes no election that his new home is his main residence then he need do nothing further , since on any subsequent transfer of the former matrimonial home to his former wife the principal private dwelling house exemption will be available ( provided she has continued to live there ) . |
| 26 | Docherty was betrothed to his first wife Agnes , an unpretentious Glaswegian who he had met in the late '40s at a social club dance when The Doc was an aspiring player with Celtic . |
| 27 | Mr Deaves — said to have paid £300,000 alimony to his first wife , TV presenter Fran Morrison — lives with second wife Jacqui in a guest house in the grounds . |
| 28 | The Sun report on The Savage in my Bed about his first wife also makes it clear that Fairley was violent and sexually abusive to his first wife and , indeed , that this was a major factor in why she left him . |
| 29 | You know , he sent me with a message to his first wife before he died . |
| 30 | he 's still tied to his first wife . |