Example sentences of "[pos pn] marriage to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roger Carr has been my close friend and musical director for the past fourteen years , and , until my marriage to Kenneth in 1985 , shared my life and my flat in Sheffield . |
| 2 | A few days earlier I had been thinking of calling my doctor to assess the chances of having my vasectomy reversed in order to save my marriage to Karen . |
| 3 | ‘ Unfortunately my marriage to Andrew has come to the end . |
| 4 | And the fiery explosion which had resulted from two large egos clashing had blown their marriage to smithereens . |
| 5 | Finally when Edmund marries Fanny , semblance is the main aspect which leads their marriage to happiness . |
| 6 | With her marriage to Damian , his life 's work of fighting Charles for the company was finally at an end . |
| 7 | But , all those years ago , she simply had n't been experienced enough to realise that , despite those wonderful and ecstatic nights of passion , her marriage to Ross had been founded on a disastrously thin layer of quicksand ; a relationship which would crack and disintegrate under the first onslaught of any stress and tension . |
| 8 | She was also estranged from her only child Nicolas , from her marriage to Charrier , and looked to be facing a lonely old age . |
| 9 | Her mother had shed ten years since her marriage to Douglas , and after all the years of struggle had learned to laugh again . |
| 10 | Presently I remembered that it was when I had been about to call Eleanor Darcy and confirm the year of her marriage to Bernard Parkin , when I had found myself calling Lou instead , on impulse . |
| 11 | For several weeks after her wedding she had entertained the silly idea that James might look for her , but she was thankful that he never came even though he soon heard about her marriage to Nahum . |
| 12 | Her marriage to Estabrook had come and gone along that river , and a good deal of pain with it . |
| 13 | He thought with pity of her future , as he knew her marriage to Troy could not be happy for long . |
| 14 | In contrast , the middle-class Bleak House admits the light and air of day through its open windows , and is so fertile in its humanity that it even gives birth to another , the ‘ rustic cottage of doll 's rooms ’ which shares its name , prepared for Esther by Mr Jarndyce on her marriage to Alan Woodcourt . |
| 15 | Anthea Turner ( above ) radiant after her marriage to Peter Powell — but what a shame no one told him about Head and Shoulders |
| 16 | He wondered suddenly if she had got any fun out of her marriage to Peter Dawson . |
| 17 | During a career that started with junk TV through small film roles to her current stardom , Michelle also had to cope with the breakup of her marriage to Peter Horton , the star of American TV show Thirtysomething , which is now screened in Britain . |
| 18 | It was the Queen 's wedding present to Anne on her marriage to Captain Mark Phillips in November 1973 . |
| 19 | The Princess Royal already has two children , Peter , 15 , and Zara , 12 , from her marriage to Captain Mark Phillips , whom she divorced last year . |
| 20 | Her marriage to Bill was the beginning of a very happy part of her life and his death in 1990 left her bereft . |
| 21 | It had taken a long while , Harry thought as he glanced fondly at Cora-Beth , before he had got over Madeleine 's rejection of him and the shock of her marriage to Dunbar . |
| 22 | Alongside the item about Sniffy Wilson and the MacQuillan death plot , Holly had ringed a story about Vanessa taking up with a rich young duke after the break-up of her marriage to Wickham . |
| 23 | TEXAN beauty Jerry Hall yesterday confirmed her marriage to Mick Jagger is definitely back on again . |
| 24 | Jones often visited Lovelace at the castle and later at New Lodge in Windsor Forest , where Lovelace moved after her marriage to Lord Henry Beauclerk in June 1739 . |
| 25 | She was killed in a car accident in 1961 shortly after her marriage to Dr Julius Seeger . |
| 26 | From leaving school at twelve years of age until her marriage to Hywell Gates at the age of twenty-five , she had slaved in other peoples houses for a pittance . |
| 27 | is risk management assistant at Lower Brook Street , and will soon become on her marriage to systems analyst , on . |
| 28 | Marina , 26 , daughter of Princess Alexandra and Sir Angus Ogilvy , caused a storm when she had Zenouska before her marriage to photographer Paul Mowatt . |
| 29 | ‘ We have two wills on file , ’ Timothy Hutton said , reaching the end of whatever internal debate he had been having , ‘ but the second , which was made in anticipation of her marriage to Mr Hawick , can not of course be submitted for Probate since that marriage did not take place . |
| 30 | A LAWYER acting for Mrs Winnie Mandela appealed yesterday for an end to press speculation about her marriage to Mr Nelson Mandela as further reports surfaced alleging links with yet another township murder . |