Example sentences of "they [verb] be married for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 'd been married for nearly forty years , did you know that ? ’ she said in a small voice . |
| 2 | They 've been married for 11 years and they 've always been so happy . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | They had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived . |
| 5 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 6 | They had been married for about a year . |
| 7 | When Esther visited Alix and Sebastian , they had been married for three weeks , and the marriage had been consummated . |
| 8 | They had been married for fifty years , but was his mother forty-nine or only forty-eight ? |
| 9 | He spoke as if they had been married for years , and could joke about sharing a bed . |
| 10 | they had been married for two years but had as yet no offspring . |
| 11 | They have been married for five years , confounding sceptics who said it would n't last because of the age difference . |
| 12 | They have been married for six years and despite years of tests and trying , have no children . |
| 13 | They have been married for two years . ’ |