Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] be married for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I had been married for seven hours .
2 She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce .
3 She had been married for 19 years and had four children ( aged between 12 and 17 years ) .
4 They had been married for fifty years , but was his mother forty-nine or only forty-eight ?
5 they had been married for two years but had as yet no offspring .
6 When Esther visited Alix and Sebastian , they had been married for three weeks , and the marriage had been consummated .
7 They had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived .
8 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 .
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