Example sentences of "wife and [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davies had a wife and 18 children , and he supported them in style . |
| 2 | Abigail 's will provided for numerous relatives , i.e. a married son , his wife and 4 children , a married daughter , her husband , 6 children and 1 grandchild , and a brother , a sister and 2 brothers-in-law . |
| 3 | He has , he says , been ‘ overwhelmed ’ by the kindness and support he has received , and for the moment is relishing not working a 14-hour day and seeing more of his wife and four children . |
| 4 | It was granted and his wife and four children came down in pyjamas and dressing-gowns . |
| 5 | Some time later this ‘ incorrigible rogue ’ was taken to court for running away and leaving his wife and four children who became a charge on the parish of Felmersham . |
| 6 | Every winter for years the popular illustrated paper of Europe had devoted great colour spreads to the Shah and his wife and four children on the ski slopes . |
| 7 | Three cottages at Far End , Coniston , cost the mine £6 : 15s. every six months and since about 1836 John Aldersley , mentioned later in the text , occupied one of these with his wife and four children , one of whom had been crippled when a heavy cart wheel fell on him in Greenodd . |
| 8 | You would anyhow not expect on this occasion any words of wisdom from me , indeed my wife and four daughters would doubtless tell you that you should never expect words of wisdom from me . |
| 9 | Derry Holmes his wife and six children were on board the Celtic Pride Ferry when it made what was only it 's second voyage . |
| 10 | ‘ Darling , you 've had one wife and one fiancée and you have a son who 's going to need you more and more . |
| 11 | Erm , before that he was the northern sales rep. for a large controls company , he is an amateur , erm , he lives with his wife and eighteen month old son and his wife 's expecting another child next month . |
| 12 | Roberts is survived by his wife and two sons by a previous marriage . |
| 13 | DETECTIVES hunting a man whose wife and two sons were murdered on the Bergerac island of Jersey discovered his body on wasteland yesterday . |
| 14 | Neighbours said one of the arrested men moved into a flat just before Christmas and lived with a woman presumed to be his wife and two sons in their mid-teens . |
| 15 | Mr Meat the butcher ( it actually was his name ) with a pig 's head on a tray , garlanded with strings of sausages carried by his wife and two sons . |
| 16 | His wife and two sons , despite his admonishments , had said he was exaggerating the danger of the Nazis . |
| 17 | The same ostentatious pride in Southern good manners also prompted him to sit up immediately when one of the ship 's white-uniformed junior officers appeared at his side bearing a tray of iced drinks for him , his wife and two sons . |
| 18 | Carvajal was survived by a wife and two sons : one of them became a broker on the exchange , but neither of them seems to have married . |
| 19 | I think we all felt a little like Dave as we saw his wife and two sons on the quay and met many of his friends . |
| 20 | The house itself was owned by a Polish man who lived with his wife and two sons in Clapham . |
| 21 | Timothy Spain , defending , said Dakers had gone to Australia with his wife and two sons and had got a job there . |
| 22 | Clarkson says that on August 19 , the opening day of this season , he , his wife and two mates arrived at Highfield Road at 2.15pm with £9.50 stand tickets for the Coventry v Everton game , kick-off 3pm . |
| 23 | Man saw hit-run driver kill wife and two girls |
| 24 | Even the family allowances , though based in their present form upon the experience and conditions of the inter-war years — when Seebohm Rowntree 's surveys in York suggested that one male in four earned less than was necessary to maintain a man , wife and two children above the poverty line — consist of a simple system of payments and enter into budgetary habits and expectations no more and no less than the fiscal allowances , of which I once suggested to a CPC conference they might be regarded as an extension . |
| 25 | ASENIOR police officer and his wife and two children escaped injury yesterday after a bomb containing up to 10lb of high explosive exploded at the back of their bungalow in Drumbo , south of Belfast . |
| 26 | Haim , who speaks halting Hebrew with a heavy accent , still leads an intensely Russian life in the new West Bank settlement north of Jerusalem where he lives with his wife and two children . |
| 27 | Jordania left his wife and two children behind in the Soviet Union , and he and Mullova moved to New York . |
| 28 | ‘ My first priority is to feed my wife and two children , but the German win has given me respite of about 13 months to consider medals rather than money . |
| 29 | A man on average earnings , with a wife and two children , has an income today which after tax and inflation is 39 per cent higher than it was in Labour 's last year . |
| 30 | One DHAC member had discovered John Wilson , his wife and two children living in a small caravan in the Brandywell . |