Example sentences of "husband had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unchaperoned freedom with which she and her sister had gone about the city with their prospective husbands had given rise to the ‘ hostile breath of rumour ’ , and had encouraged a general belief that ‘ Pantisocracy meant a system of things which dispensed with the marriage-tie ’ . |
| 2 | For those whose husbands had not yet returned , which included my own husband , it was a time of unhappy waiting . |
| 3 | They were n't used , but one eventually blossomed into the TV hit series Widows , about four women who commit the robbery their late husbands had planned . |
| 4 | Only the older ones , the ones whose husbands had been engineers and farmers and management consultants first , agreed with her . |
| 5 | Most never knew how much their husbands had earned . |
| 6 | Even at this early break in the morning , several husbands had lost bets and were to be glimpsed shouting at themselves in silence in corners . |
| 7 | Normally , married women only applied for re-admission to the union and thus to the trade ( which was not granted automatically ) when their husbands had either died or were severely incapacitated . |
| 8 | Westwood describes the various forms of dependence of the women on their husbands and the control the husbands had over their wives . |
| 9 | It does however , seem likely that working class wives were tolerant of occasional abuse , provided that husbands had what they considered ‘ just cause ’ . |
| 10 | Since 1805 husbands had been legally responsible for the married couple 's tax affairs and any married couple 's allowance had been received by the husband . |
| 11 | The husbands had returned , and despite their experiences in the war , women were once again the ‘ weaker vessel ’ . |
| 12 | New divorce legislation reported on Dec. 9 was said to grant unprecedented rights to women , allowing divorcees to seek compensation through the courts for housework which husbands had ordered them to do during the marriage . |
| 13 | It was a phrase often used by her mother to describe women whose husbands had made money and moved to Edgbaston . |
| 14 | MY friends and I were discussing whether we would find it more acceptable if our husbands had an affair based on lust , rather than love . |
| 15 | Her husband had always been the centre of attention wherever he went — large , handsome , charming : a vote-getter by trade and inclination . |
| 16 | Mrs Doran 's husband had been a loser to Phipps , both at golf and in the bedroom . |
| 17 | Mrs Yardley 's husband had lost his job recently , and Phipps held the mortgage on the little cottage they were so proud of . |
| 18 | Now the remarkable circumstance , recorded by Anna Dostoevsky in her memoirs , is that her husband had a foreboding of political disturbances at the Academy , and fearing that his brother-in-law ‘ because of his youthfulness and weakness of character might take an active part in them ’ , he persuaded Anna 's mother it would be a good thing if the young man came to them in Dresden : which he did in October of 1869 , the month before Ivanov was murdered . |
| 19 | My husband had come to collect us at the airport and we came back here in a minicar . |
| 20 | Then went to the Citizen 's Advice Bureau ( CAB ) at Wembley , as my husband had suggested , and asked them for information about how to join a union . |
| 21 | Mrs Cullam did n't even look at him and when he asked her at what time her husband had come home on Friday night she said laconically , ‘ Quarter past eleven . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Something like that , ’ Now was not the time to suggest to this woman that her husband had been a blackmailer as well as a thief . |
| 23 | Yes , her husband had asked her to put in for £500 worth of shares . |
| 24 | Mr Justice Douglas Brown said that the defendants were negligent ( 1 ) in failing to appreciate that they were dealing with a husband of substantial means who might well be able to afford to pay , not only a lump sum , but also substantial periodical payments ; ( 2 ) in failing to obtain full disclosure of the husband 's financial affairs ; ( 3 ) in failing to realise that because of family trusts and wills the husband had an expectation of further assets ; ( 4 ) in advising the wife to obtain a mortgage when she had no taxable income ; ( 5 ) in recommending a settlement which removed the wife 's undoubted right to maintenance ; and ( 6 ) in failing to use ouster proceedings to remove the husband from the matrimonial home . |
| 25 | In The last Country Houses , a book which documents the death of the old tradition of hospitality , Clive Aslett records the response of a nouveau riche lady when told that some pleasant people lived near the rural seat her husband had just acquired . |
| 26 | ( One member of the Silverlock family married Matilda de Langford , whose first husband had been William de Mohun — see page 28 . ) |
| 27 | Her freehold and copyhold land , it is true , remained her own ; but the husband had the enjoyment of it at least during the continuance of the marriage . |
| 28 | The husband had a right to dispose of them for his own benefit while he lived , and his wife had no power of disposition during that time , though , if she survived him , and they had not been disposed of , they would be hers again . |
| 29 | Later , my husband had taken me with him . |
| 30 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |