Example sentences of "[vb past] been married for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 'd been married for nearly forty years , did you know that ? ’ she said in a small voice . |
| 2 | He had , in fact , treated her as a man might well treat a wife to whom he 'd been married for some years — a relaxed , comfortable relationship in which there was no need for any outward signs of affection . |
| 3 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 4 | A wife , who had been married for six years , consulted the defendant firm of solicitors about her divorce proceedings . |
| 5 | Mrs Ireland had been married for thirty-nine years . |
| 6 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 7 | ‘ Elsie and Simon had been married for six years or so when she disappeared . |
| 8 | She had been married for 19 years and had four children ( aged between 12 and 17 years ) . |
| 9 | Elizabeth and Harry had been married for ten years , both for a second time . |
| 10 | She was an Irish Catholic woman of twenty-eight and had been married for nearly two years . |
| 11 | As they were mainly couples who had been married for a number of years and were now able to move to a larger , more expensive home , their children ranged in age between seven and nineteen years . |
| 12 | They had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived . |
| 13 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 14 | They had been married for about a year . |
| 15 | When Esther visited Alix and Sebastian , they had been married for three weeks , and the marriage had been consummated . |
| 16 | I had been married for seven hours . |
| 17 | They also found that the ex-married women had been married for about eight years , on average , before becoming lone mothers . |
| 18 | They had been married for fifty years , but was his mother forty-nine or only forty-eight ? |
| 19 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 20 | At his death he had been married for at least nine years to a wife called Margaret . |
| 21 | She had been married for the last two years , to a man who really was a sewage plant manager ( Slater was quite hurt that Graham thought he 'd invented this detail for the sake of a joke ) . |
| 22 | Colette and Bernard had been married for fifteen years . |
| 23 | He spoke as if they had been married for years , and could joke about sharing a bed . |
| 24 | When Alan and Carolyn had been married for four years , Alan 's grandmother ( Lucy 's mother ) died , leaving him and Pamela £20,000 each . |
| 25 | they had been married for two years but had as yet no offspring . |
| 26 | Donald and Sheila Baughan had been married for 20 years . |
| 27 | Peter Armstrong , prosecuting , said the couple had been married for a year but had lived together for four years before marrying . |
| 28 | ‘ When she was writing Rebecca she had been married for about four years , had one child and during the writing of the book , had her second child . |