Example sentences of "[unc] [adj] marriage to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose of Lima 's mystical marriage to Jesus , his visits to her , her direct sense of his immediate and corporeal presence , was understood by her and her contemporaries as a direct reward , and more than a compensation , for the violence of her own purification . |
| 2 | During Catherine 's brief marriage to Henry , Culpepper and another former lover , Richard Dereham , were arrested and tortured into admitting having lain with Catherine before she wed the King . |
| 3 | The churches split in 1534 after the Pope refused to annul the king 's first marriage to Catherine of Aragon so he could marry Anne . |
| 4 | As the cricket world reeled at yesterday 's shock news that Gooch 's 16-year marriage to wife Brenda has broken up , Test and county chiefs expressed their amazement — and drew up contingency plans . |
| 5 | Rothenberg 's recent marriage to artist Bruce Nauman led to her relocation from New York City to New Mexico . |
| 6 | PRINCESS Anne 's proposed marriage to Tim Laurence finally became legal yesterday — when this notice was pinned outside a tiny register office in the village of Ballater , near Balmoral . |