Across the dining room, his wife tended some of the children and said gently, "No more problems.
And his new wife, they concluded, tends to believe what she hears for lack of another perspective.
"Use it, and then my wife will tend your wounds."
"Perhaps I shall have a look at it, whilst you and my wife tend the sick."
General Rashood and his wife tended to sleep very closely together.
Nevertheless, both husbands and wives tended to say that they did more of the work than their partners.
His wife was still tending to her mother, who'd yet to die.
His wife tended to their 6-month-old son in a stroller.
And I should point out that the wife of so stodgy a man tends not to seem very exciting herself.
His wife, her arm in a cast after being injured by a horse, tends the animals.