Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [pron] [adj] wife " in BNC.
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| 1 | Errant husbands and their unfaithful wives , bored concubines and their casual lovers , lecherous old men and randy widows , singsong girls and libertine young sons he could see it now , spreading like the leaves and branches of a great tree , until the tree itself rotted and fell . |
| 2 | glad of familiar accents and my dull wife . |
| 3 | Twenty-five years ago there were 144 people living there , mostly descendants of the original mutineers and their Tahitian wives . |
| 4 | Eliot — his rent restriction fears and his new wife . |
| 5 | So I 've only written about the women who were important in my life — my mother , my daughters and my two wives — and I write about them deeply . |
| 6 | Heini and his fifth wife , Carmen — Tita to her friends — are thus free to concentrate on his art collection , the world 's most valuable in private hands , if you exclude those of the Queen and of Prince Hans Adam of Liechtenstein . |