Example sentences of "[pron] wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Nancy might be only seventeen , but she 's already a full-growed woman to look at , and I know she 'd be pleased to be 'is wife , 'e 'd only 'ave to ask 'er , except 'e did say once that 'e 's waitin' a while before 'e gets married . |
| 2 | I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face . |
| 3 | ‘ Tommy Allen was tellin' me 'is wife 's pregnant , ’ she began . |
| 4 | Not 'is wife — but the bébé ’ ! |
| 5 | Maybe I could have been offered a discount if I brought my wife next time . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's my wife 's antenatal class this afternoon and I 've got to look after the other one . ’ |
| 7 | If my wife manages to elbow her way past me to the book first , she 's immediately led astray by extras like ‘ free use of private beach ’ , ‘ heated swimming pool ’ or ‘ wine-tasting ’ . |
| 8 | Martin even cooked , every pan in the place , ‘ nothing too good for my wife ! ’ |
| 9 | Also it was hard to know what to say to Anne — that 's my wife — when she asked each evening ‘ How was your day ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I was walking down Piccadilly in 1973 with the woman who was later to become my wife when she grabbed me by the arm and steered me into St James 's church to see the carvings ’ . |
| 11 | As an academic critic and university teacher specializing in modern literature and literary theory , I spend much or my time these days reading books and articles that I can barely understand and that cause my wife ( a graduate with a good honours degree in English language and literature ) to utter loud cries of pain and nausea if her eye happens to fall on them . |
| 12 | My wife , who liked him and to whom he was always charming , thinks he was a snob . |
| 13 | One evening , perched in his landing window , he shot towards my wife with an air rifle and I reported him to the police . |
| 14 | ‘ I discussed the matter with my wife and signed a contract straight away — without my wife seeing the house . |
| 15 | ‘ I discussed the matter with my wife and signed a contract straight away — without my wife seeing the house . |
| 16 | Speaking through an interpreter , Ahmed , 31 , said : ‘ I 'm very worried about my wife and children . |
| 17 | I have split with my mistress today , my wife gave me an ultimatum — and now this . |
| 18 | Yet we felt we should give this fellow a chance , so my wife put it in a box and set it on top of the Aga . |
| 19 | ‘ My wife and I are not badly off as we have the state pension , my police pension , and a police civil staff pension . |
| 20 | It has n't been much of a week for my wife either ; she now sees little prospect of winning back even a beefburger space in the deep freeze . |
| 21 | I have not always found it easy to counter my wife 's complaints that frozen peas have to be eaten the same day . |
| 22 | They stood to the side as I entered then the woman showed me to a chair as the man brought two glasses and placed them on the table in front of me , then said very seriously , ‘ This is my wife . |
| 23 | Her husband said , ‘ Wait one moment , Monsieur , my wife has something for you . ’ |
| 24 | My wife and I returned recently from a visit to our son in South Australia , and whilst there we paid several visits to the local RAFA branch . |
| 25 | Ash-Wednesday , dedicated , originally , ‘ To My Wife ’ , deals , amongst other things , with the resignation of sex , which goes hand in hand with the abandoning of primitive ceremony , the link between such primitivism and the erotic being preserved . |
| 26 | My wife and I went up to the pay booth . |
| 27 | My wife and i feel somewhat denied . |
| 28 | ‘ What my wife and I really like doing are the very simple things , like gardening and walking , ’ he adds . |
| 29 | For example when , as a journalist , I visited couples in their homes to ask about local events , my conversations with women would often be interrupted by their husbands holding up their hands in the direction of their wives and saying in the most matter of fact way ‘ Be quiet , ’ and then turning to me and saying ‘ There is no point in asking my wife . |
| 30 | It is something I would certainly not agree with and neither would my wife , who always makes that page her first piece of reading when Autocar & Motor arrives . |