Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been married for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been married for seven hours . |
| 2 | I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one . |
| 3 | I 've been married for sixteen years . |
| 4 | I 've been married for 16 years to a man I really love . |
| 5 | I HAVE been married for 26 years to a wife I have loved since I was 20 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Now Daph and I have been married for 30 years . |
| 8 | Now I have been married for ten years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 12 | She had been married for 19 years and had four children ( aged between 12 and 17 years ) . |
| 13 | A wife , who had been married for six years , consulted the defendant firm of solicitors about her divorce proceedings . |
| 14 | And she 's married , she 's been married for two and half years to Glen . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been married for sixty years . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been married for sixty years . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm 46 , Ruth is 45 , we 've been married for 24 years . |
| 18 | We 've been married for seven years and , though I 'm only 31 , I 'm beginning to worry — has he changed his mind ? |
| 19 | We have been married for eighteen years . |
| 20 | They 've been married for 11 years and they 've always been so happy . |
| 21 | They had been married for fifty years , but was his mother forty-nine or only forty-eight ? |
| 22 | they had been married for two years but had as yet no offspring . |
| 23 | When Esther visited Alix and Sebastian , they had been married for three weeks , and the marriage had been consummated . |
| 24 | They had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived . |
| 25 | They have been married for two years . ’ |
| 26 | They have been married for six years and despite years of tests and trying , have no children . |
| 27 | They have been married for five years , confounding sceptics who said it would n't last because of the age difference . |
| 28 | 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 . |