Example sentences of "her husband " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman alleged to have sewn the flag was sentenced to eight years in prison and her husband , who led the ceremony , to 20 years . |
| 2 | Vera Chirwa and her husband Orton are British-trained lawyers , who played a leading role in the struggle for Malawi 's independence in 1964 . |
| 3 | The young woman remembers how her mother would leave home at 5am day after day , and wait in the Marmoura forest near where the King used to play golf in an effort to plead with him for her husband 's life . |
| 4 | Her mother tried to persuade the woman who had received the letters to let her talk with this guard ; a man who was actually in touch with her husband . |
| 5 | In 1959 Dore Ashton was dismissed by the New York Times , the charges being that her articles were not aimed at a wide newspaper audience , and her articles on work by artist friends gave evidence of bias ( her husband , whose work she was forbidden to review , was a painter and print-maker called Adja Yunkers ) . |
| 6 | His mother died early , worn out by making ends meet and by her husband 's gambling . |
| 7 | The novelist is less inward , less collusive , with her than he is with her husband — a relation fully consonant with Eric 's law of nature — but he wants her view to be respected , and works it too hard as a purchase on wrong thinking . |
| 8 | Kate Smith , joint proprietor of the Beetle and Wedge Inn with her husband , Richard , tries to define the skills of restaurant management as opposed to those or the chef |
| 9 | Wendy Vaughan began cooking professionally six years ago at the Old Rectory in Llansanfraid , North Wales — the family home she converted to a small hotel with her husband Michael when he sold his motor parts company . |
| 10 | In the early hours , she left with her husband Guy to drive back to Lourmarin so that she could open her restaurant in the morning . |
| 11 | She beamed at her husband , bravely facing the barrage of produce , and winced as a particularly juicy specimen caught him right on the chin . |
| 12 | She went to find her husband , and discovered him still laughing and ducking the tomato barrage , naked from the waist up but liberally coated with a kind of raw ketchup . |
| 13 | Her husband had always been the centre of attention wherever he went — large , handsome , charming : a vote-getter by trade and inclination . |
| 14 | For if Mrs Phipps been clever enough to manage her husband 's murder , then she was too bright to make such uninhibited admissions , even to a sympathetic vicar 's wife , other than in the knowledge that she 'd nothing to hide . |
| 15 | ‘ And poor Mrs Phipps , with her husband lying there … ’ |
| 16 | ’ Her husband gazed at her across the body . |
| 17 | Her blue eyes were cold as slate as she turned to her husband . |
| 18 | Anyway , there she was in her own room , and no call if she did n't want to open the door to anyone , not even her husband . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Especially not her husband , ’ said Thomas . |
| 20 | ‘ And did you tell the foreign gentleman that her husband was going mad with jealousy ? ’ |
| 21 | Henry Tyler had had an unexpected few days ' leave and had descended on his married sister and her husband in the small market town of Berebury in Calleshire without a great deal of warning . |
| 22 | ‘ At least Arthur would have been there , ’ said her husband . |
| 23 | Wendy stared at her husband . |
| 24 | Or have been asked not to by her husband … ’ he put his arm round his wife . |
| 25 | She was a somewhat intense woman who probably rather enjoyed such gatherings , but I 've often wondered if she secretly used them as a ruse to get her husband home to mind the little one while she nipped out for a breather . |
| 26 | Her husband was due to retire then and they had decided that they would both give up work at the same time . |
| 27 | Her heart cramped now as she thought of her husband 's folly in plumping for the easy money , as it had seemed , after three bad harvests — his airy promise to come home soon — his failure to return after his regiment had been disbanded in Madras and left to make its own way back round half the world . |
| 28 | Aileen was looking dubiously at her husband but he was in no mood to disapprove . |
| 29 | Aileen Gillies was all brisk agreement as she wrapped up some food in a cloth and gave it to them while her husband busied himself with laying the fire . |
| 30 | Nathan 's illness apart , theirs was a home life of high-minded living , fun and goodness ; one which rang with Masha 's high spirits , an acceptable foil for her husband 's Edwardian style and manner , a real baleboste . |