Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] marry [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By midnight , he 'd asked me to marry him . ’ |
| 2 | He 'd been shy and fair-haired the Sunday afternoon he 'd asked her to marry him , without any confidence in those days . |
| 3 | But when he had asked her to marry him , she had declined out of nothing more than pique . |
| 4 | He had asked her to marry him because he was ashamed of himself , because he wanted to hide . |
| 5 | He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion . |