Example sentences of "that [pron] wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learned that my wife had been released but had very little money to live on . |
| 2 | Or when I come down with psychosomatic diseases so that my wife babies me and Huxley and Hooker fight all my battles . |
| 3 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 4 | This should not suggest that my wife and I are cut from the American kind of Anglophilic chintz that may of you like to poke fun at . |
| 5 | This proved very difficult because , between the time of the decision being taken to move Cossors to Harlow and the time that my wife , my wife 's department actually went , the Development Corporation had changed their policy and would not have married women as tenants . |
| 6 | Well I suppose at the , one of the best things , best examples of the difference was that my wife when she saw this house , knew that it was a house in which she could be happy , in which her tastes and , could spread themselves , erm rather than her tastes having to be curtailed by lack of space and lack of accommodation , erm , the fact that I had a garage which was essential er next to my house instead of some er quarter or twenty minutes ' walk away from where I lived as happened in London also made a terrific difference to comfort , erm the fact that there was a garden instead of a few windowboxes and a couple of tubs , all these things I think made one appreciate the fact that you 'd come , not only into a new town , but into a new way of life probably the fact that we had a staircase inside the house , which was the first time that we 'd had a staircase between our bedrooms and our living rooms |
| 7 | If it is that I do not , on the grounds that had I heard about the invitation my justification would have been defeated , you have a duty to give some account of why the ( unknown to me ) truth that my wife has refused the invitation does not somehow redress the balance . |
| 8 | I must n't keep you away from her , but will you tell her that my wife and I are very concerned ? |
| 9 | It seems that my wife has already conceived her doubts about the work we are doing here . |
| 10 | I need hardly say that my wife 's first impression of Lewis differed somewhat from my own . |
| 11 | " I have n't liked to say anything about it , but you must have noticed , that evening you stayed to have a drink with us , that my wife was n't quite herself . " |
| 12 | Having now seen the answers , I find that my wife and I had just one word wrong . |
| 13 | I think just the fact that my wife knew what was going on , and knew the problems exactly you know , they had their own meetings and the food parcels that they could organize , you know I would n't have a clue how to go about it , the fact that various shops refused to have collection points inside , and they wrote off to the management of these shops and got that changed . |
| 14 | Erm , well yeah I 've learnt that my wife is more use than just in the kitchen . |
| 15 | Th they told me to default on the mortgage that I 'm paying for the property that my wife lives in , because the assessment does n't take into account that I |
| 16 | Mother love has a tendency to forgive all , and a lot of men seem to think that their wife is their mother ! |
| 17 | Mother love has a tendency to forgive all , and a lot of men seem to think that their wife is their mother ! |
| 18 | Risto Gojkovic , 45 , said to be worth £4m , had argued that his wife should receive the maisonette and £532,000 . |
| 19 | Father was convinced that his wife would not have enough to live on when he died and overworked to get money . |
| 20 | He also knew that his wife , after being secretary to a bishop and then secretary to the professor of divinity , and his hostess for eight years , was better equipped to be the wife of the new Bishop of Durham than any other woman in the country . |
| 21 | Peter Yeo controlled the impulse to shout at her , realizing that his wife was badly rattled . |
| 22 | Could it be that his wife Elizabeth , who was secretary of labour until three months ago , wanted another push in the campaign she launched last May ? |
| 23 | Last December an appeal court ordered the retrial of a convicted murderer when it was revealed that his wife had had an affair with his lawyer . |
| 24 | He remembered that his wife had one precious jewel , and he did what no man should ever do — he went and gave his wife 's only jewel to the beggar . |
| 25 | If any of them hinted afterwards that his wife might not be thrilled at seeing them again , he 'd say , ‘ You can tell her to bugger off any time . ’ |
| 26 | She was most solicitous ( scheming bitch ! ) so he told her that his wife was cured and they went back to the same old routine . |
| 27 | It was more tolerable that his wife should write her horrible effusions as Gina Buffon ( not many people knew his wife 's name ) but it was still more than he could bear . |
| 28 | He comforted himself that his wife , being foreign , had just repeated the phrase parrot-fashion and did n't mean by it what he would have meant . |
| 29 | By the end of two months , Nigel realized that his wife had permanent PMT . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't think that his wife cared much for ice cream , ’ said a relative . |