Example sentences of "and [pos pn] wife [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was five one pound bets that we put on between us , I put two on , my wife put three on , and all mine were place bets , and I got the winner and I got the fourth , and my wife got the second , and the other one of hers lost . |
| 2 | There was a fight , and his wife killed the other . |
| 3 | CD modelled it on the SS Britannia on which he and his wife made the crossing in 1842 . |
| 4 | The personal interests of an Anglo-French magnate and his wife made the absorption of this great and valuable fief a far costlier operation for the French crown . |
| 5 | HAVING spent all his working life in the pottery industry , a Wedgwood executive is setting his sights on a new ‘ career ’ that will take him and his wife exploring the scenic routes , cities and towns of Britain , America , Canada and Europe . |
| 6 | The minister and his wife offered the freedom of the manse , and the children started to go to Brownies , Boys ' Brigade and Sunday school . |
| 7 | A few months ago he died , and his wife sold the house and went to live with her sister . |
| 8 | He and his wife know the sex already . |
| 9 | Last week on The Jamesons ( R2 ) he and his wife ditched the usual phone-in for a fax-in . |
| 10 | After a buffet rijstafel of gargantuan proportions-thirty dishes concluded with a chewy sweet much beloved of the malais which resembled nothing so much as toenail pie — the Colonel served Tia Maria which he and his wife thought the last word in cosmopolitan sophistication . |
| 11 | That American and his wife left the boat and drove away , later some of the crew came ashore too . |
| 12 | Heads turned that night when Senator Jared Tunstall and his wife entered the ballroom at Devonshire House . |
| 13 | expulsion from Paradise : " Unto Adam also and his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them . " |
| 14 | More remote , but lovely , is Valcebollère , a stone village perched at the end of a valley , where M Lafitte and his wife run the cosy L'Auberge les Ecureuils hotel . |
| 15 | Relations between him , his wife and bishop Patiens of Lyons were particularly cordial , according to Sidonius in a letter which provides the only depiction of the Burgundian ruler 's cultural and religious connections : Chilperic admired the banquets provided by Patiens and his wife admired the bishop 's fasts . |