Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] married for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been married for seven hours . |
| 2 | I 've been married for sixteen years . |
| 3 | I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one . |
| 4 | I 've been married for 16 years to a man I really love . |
| 5 | I have been married for nearly twenty-five years to a very nice kind Englishman . |
| 6 | I HAVE been married for 26 years to a wife I have loved since I was 20 . |
| 7 | Now I have been married for ten years . |
| 8 | Now Daph and I have been married for 30 years . |
| 9 | As for myself — Bob and I have been married for forty-six years , and spent most of our married life on and around Manchester , where he was ( eventually ) Market Research Manager in an engineering firm , and I practised social work when not fully engaged with the 2 children . |
| 10 | The change of status , too , from ‘ wife , to ‘ widow ’ is felt very keenly by most women as a loss of considerable significance , which indeed it is ; for without a partner , a woman who has been married for some years may , unless she already has well developed interests outside her home , find that her social life is suddenly transformed in a very disturbing way . |
| 11 | ‘ We always wanted to sponsor a guide dog and by the time you 've been married for 50 years you 've got everything you need and there 's no point in getting presents you do n't really need , ’ said Mr Lea . |
| 12 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 13 | She had been married for 19 years and had four children ( aged between 12 and 17 years ) . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | A wife , who had been married for six years , consulted the defendant firm of solicitors about her divorce proceedings . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And she 's married , she 's been married for two and half years to Glen . |
| 19 | I 'm 46 , Ruth is 45 , we 've been married for 24 years . |
| 20 | We 've been married for seven years and , though I 'm only 31 , I 'm beginning to worry — has he changed his mind ? |
| 21 | ‘ We 've been married for sixty years . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've been married for sixty years . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 've known Eric since I was 20 and we have been married for nearly six years . |
| 24 | We have been married for eighteen years . |
| 25 | ‘ They 'd been married for nearly forty years , did you know that ? ’ she said in a small voice . |
| 26 | They 've been married for 11 years and they 've always been so happy . |
| 27 | and , and if she 's already scared of his temper and they 've not even lived together , well they have lived together for quite a while actually so I mean it 's not like they do n't know each other but once they 're married and they 've been married for a couple of years I reckon , and he starts thinking of her more as a possession sort of thing I can , I can really imagine |
| 28 | They had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived . |
| 29 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 30 | They had been married for about a year . |