Example sentences of "and [pos pn] wife [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 Although none of the other Blaxhall competitions is connected with horse-gear , they are included as examples of the way farm-workers and their wives enjoyed a frolic .
2 ‘ Would you believe it 's no less than some of the company directors and their wives paying a visit to Family Day ? ’
3 As well as teaching , Mr M and his wife run a farm on South Ronaldsay .
4 One night he and his wife witnessed a vague aura of human form on the fire-box top of No 43106 .
5 And his wife died a year ago nearly ?
6 So when her son married and his wife had a baby girl she felt as if she 'd regained the daughter she 'd lost .
7 THE Duke and Duchess of Kent became grandparents for the second time yesterday when the Earl of St Andrews and his wife had a baby girl .
8 Later in Edward I 's reign he and his wife had a series of disputes with the Dublin government .
9 In fact , he was married , although not many people knew this , and his wife had a serious and incurable disease called lupus , which at times took quite a toll on his own emotions and energy .
10 Der summat like that , and his wife had a baby at the same time as Elaine 's so she our midwife would come and er , so the she kept in touch really of of what they were because they wanted to , I 'll take the place off , they wanted to take it over .
11 Finally , in 1571 , the Emperor Maximilian II and his wife paid a visit on foot to the Jewish quarter , and were welcomed under a traditional canopy by the Rabbi and the mayor , Mordechai Maizl .
12 All the same , Dustin does some things that seem strange to the natives , like making the Woodstock peace sign to the yobbish workmen , who return it mockingly , and also by playing loud bagpipe music on the record-player when the vicar and his wife pay a call .
13 And his wife looks a real dragon . ’
14 THIS is the time when Blackpool sparkles in the bright lights and when the world and his wife pays a visit to the Queen of Resorts .
15 ‘ Barrymore and his wife have a very fine home and nothing to do while the family is not living in the Hall , ’ said Sir Henry .
16 He and his wife have a place here in Ghent , and he 's asked us both over .
17 He and his wife have a house in London . ’
18 He and his wife have a daughter married to a retained firefighter at Masham .
19 In retrospect , the events of that afternoon seem trivial , but the combination of stone-throwing rioters and Paisleyites abusing the dignatories of the Irish Presbyterian Church and the Governor of Northern Ireland and his wife triggered a considerable wave of anti-Paisley feeling .
20 I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination .
21 They put a temporary dressing on his cut nose and his wife puts a bobble hat on his head .
22 In 1976 Mr Gerald Rhodes and his wife bought a large chest in a furniture sale at Craven Arms .
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