Example sentences of "they [vb past] [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 had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived . |
| 3 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 4 | They had been married for about a year . |
| 5 | When Esther visited Alix and Sebastian , they had been married for three weeks , and the marriage had been consummated . |
| 6 | They had been married for fifty years , but was his mother forty-nine or only forty-eight ? |
| 7 | He spoke as if they had been married for years , and could joke about sharing a bed . |
| 8 | they had been married for two years but had as yet no offspring . |