Example sentences of "[pron] wife 's [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have another matter to talk with them actually about my wife 's liability to class to contributions . |
| 2 | Had interview with housing official who stated that I had to transfer the tenancy from my wife 's name to mine and then something would be done within a week . |
| 3 | Many husbands are puzzled , and sometimes hurt , by their wife 's attitude to the event . |
| 4 | William Mackworth added his wife 's surname to his own , and they assumed their place in the foothills of county aristocracy . |
| 5 | Mr Allan , who likened his wife 's campaign to that of the father of murdered British woman Julie Ward in Kenya , said : ‘ It 's most important we have something positive even though it is bad news . ’ |
| 6 | Nahum Morey was not at all happy about his wife 's attachment to the Foundling child . |
| 7 | But if he obtains his wife 's submission to intercourse without resort to those means , there is no offence . |
| 8 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 9 | The proposition that in procuring his wife 's signature to the document Duval was acting as agent of Turnbull & Co. would , in my opinion , have been unreal and artificial . |
| 10 | This submission was based on the assertion that the bank had employed the husband ‘ as agent to procure his wife 's signature to the document or at least her agreement to the transaction in principle . ’ |
| 11 | Goodricke relinquished his Stockholm appointment in 1773 , following his wife 's succession to the Yorkshire seat of Branham Park , which brought sudden wealth ; he was then free to take his ease as a country gentleman , and devote himself to estate and agricultural improvement . |