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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a married couple
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Under the new rules, a married couple will now receive £20 a week extra.
a newly married couple (= having married not long ago )
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Many newly married couples cannot afford to buy their own homes.
engaged to be married
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She is engaged to be married .
happily married
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I’m a happily married man.
married quarters (= houses where soldiers live with their wives )
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Most of the officers live in married quarters .
marry/get married in a church
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I’d like to get married in a church.
marry/get married in a church
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I’d like to get married in a church.
marrying beneath (= marrying someone who was not good enough )
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His mother felt he was marrying beneath him .
the marrying age
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She was 28 – long past the usual marrying age.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
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What you've got to do is to get her to marry again .
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The rabbi told Minna that she would have to wait ninety days before she could be married again .
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I shouldn't think Helen would want to get married again .
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Eventually he married again , this time the daughter of a professor.
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Then she married again , had three more sons - and began picking on her oldest.
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Of course there was always the chance she could marry again .
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But, with the help of the changing law, a divorce is eventually granted, which allows him to marry again .
happily
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He has grown-up children from that, and is now happily married for a second time with a young son, Jamie.
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Both single people and unhappily married people report poorer health than peo-ple who are happily married or partnered.
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The catch is these two are more or less happily married -- to other people.
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This struck me as one of those existential moments in the life of a happily married woman.
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He was a phys ed teacher, and happily married , with two young daughters.
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He was a happily married man.
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I think it made happily married men review their vows.
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When the princess saw him, she loved him too, and they were very happily married .
never
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I will never marry again, said Alix.
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He was never married and passed away in 1921.
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That's why I've never married .
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She never married or went anywhere even on her days off.
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Women who have never married are over-represented among the very elderly.
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I was convinced I would never have a meaningful date, never marry , never have children.
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She knew he'd never married .
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They are married , divorced, separated, widowed, and never married.
■ NOUN
child
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Yes, and why hadn't that occurred to her before - that he might be married with children ?
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One parish had chosen him because he was unmarried but later wished he were married with children .
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And anyway, in other religions, priests married and had children .
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Alfred, a gang leader, had never been to college and was already married with a child on the way.
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He is married with three children and lives at Seaton Carew.
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I never thought I would find love or marry or have children .
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Some were married and had children .
couple
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They were a devoted couple , marrying after a teenage romance.
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Rachel dies of a mysterious illness before the couple can marry .
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The couple plan to marry next year.
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That meant taking Pre-Cana classes, a course of instruction for all couples who wanted to marry within the Church.
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The couple had been married nine years.
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None the less the young couple eventually married , which in the face of so much Glover resistance undoubtedly took some strength and resolve.
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For instance, if couples are not married they are asked not to share huts.
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The couple were formally married on 7 May at Chambery, and on 20 May made their ceremonial entry into Turin.
daughter
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The family will be celebrating again in June when one of his daughters gets married .
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Nick tossed three bags of gold through the kitchen window, and the three daughters married Soon after.
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His wife was dead, his two daughters raised and married , by the time Nina and Maria arrived in 1742.
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He died in 1574, leaving the property to his illegitimate daughter Hester, who married Lord Wooton.
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This daughter of an innkeeper married Constantius, the Roman general, in 270.
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He and his wife have a daughter married to a retained firefighter at Masham.
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A poor son is often forced to remain single, but a poor daughter can marry a rich man.
family
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Some people marry into families rather than commit themselves to a partner.
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Dorothy had always wanted to be married and have a family .
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Many left to marry and raise families .
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At times, he was saddened by never having married and raised a family of his own.
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And so when a son marries , his family may, with reason, mourn the dissolution of the way things were.
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He had never married and had no family or, at least, no family with whom he was in touch.
father
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He had heard of girls marrying a father substitute, but he had not met one before.
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The stepmother: Crude, rude, and obnoxious, she married the father after his wife passed away.
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By the time I turned seventeen, I had already been married to her father for two years.
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She married my father in 1932, in the depths of the Depression.
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Why shouldn't I marry their precious father ?
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This is when they were first married , and my father went out and joined a golf club.
girl
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She's a sexy, cheerful, lively and uninhibited girl who married the wrong man.
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Percilla the Monkey Girl married the Alligator Man.
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Most girls just get married once a year and have another baby.
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The years passed quickly, and soon it was time for the little girl to marry .
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After Christmas, Mona, the one girl who had not married , came every weekend from Dublin.
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He had heard of girls marrying a father substitute, but he had not met one before.
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Without following this Hindu custom, it would be difficult to get the girls married .
husband
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He thought she would marry him when her husband died.
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Marion Witherspoon had married her late husband when she was twenty or twenty-one.
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Chatman had a tumor removed 12 years ago, six years before she married her husband , Dennis.&038;.
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Women are working more across the board, but the biggest increase has come from women married to higher-earning husbands .
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In 1973 she married her present husband , Taufik Kiemas, a well-connected businessman who owns a string of gas stations.
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I sold papers until I was 17, then I married my husband .
man
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He had gone for ever, to be replaced by the man she had really married , the ambitious and powerful Damian Flint.
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Maybe she came from a good family, which back home was the reason men married plain, buck-toothed women.
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Well-educated men and women are marrying each other, and these well-educated wives are carrying on working.
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And if that man is married and a Catholic, his political career will wither and die.
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She had married not just the man , she had married his job, and all that it involved.
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There are only sixty-five men for every 100 women in that group, and two thirds of the men are already married !
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There are three men who want to marry Bathsheba.
sister
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For Davey ended up marrying Bret's sister Diana.
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But he accepted all that when he married Corinne Roosevelt, sister of the future president.
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But when she turned him down he married her sister instead.
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But she married and my sister took her place.
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Forcing her into a loveless marriage the same way he's forcing you pair into marrying the Costello sisters .
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His younger brother James married Jessie's sister .
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Powell married Violet Packenham, sister of Lord Longford, in 1934 after a brief acquaintanceship.
son
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If I had married and had a son , I reasoned to myself, that boy would be about Tom's age.
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The toad: Ugly; he wanted Thumbelina to marry his son .
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An additional 22, 000 went to married sons and daughters and their spouses and children.
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The Wilders have one daughter about to get married and a son about to graduate from high school.
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She was kidnapped by an ugly toad who wanted her to marry his son .
wife
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Only twenty months later, John married his second wife Jennie.
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I married my wife in 1939.
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He had married his second wife Maud by no later than Michaelmas term 1245.
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A woman is in love with a married man, whose wife is in a permanent coma.
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A Circuit Judge since 1986, he married his wife Jane 37 years ago.
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He has been married to his wife , Janet, for more than 25 years and is the grandfather of three.
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The Marquess married his wife Becky in 1990 but he now lives apart from her and their son.
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Sir Hugo marries and his wife bears three girls, but Deronda holds no resentment toward them.
woman
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Well-educated men and women are marrying each other, and these well-educated wives are carrying on working.
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Emphatically for foreign women who marry local bachelors.
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Women are working more across the board, but the biggest increase has come from women married to higher-earning husbands.
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Helen Leeder, who took the class last year, said most students were young women either recently married or considering marriage.
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Disillusioned with the ruthlessly ambitious woman he had married , Richard had long ago turned his back on her.
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Many women are reluctant to marry .
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Seventy-four percent of women who were married in 1900-9 who reached two children went on to have a third or more.
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In other words, men tended to seek polygamy, whereas women strove to marry upward with men of high status.
years
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Heated tempers George and Helen have been married forty-five years .
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I married Lida when I was twenty-two, and we were married twenty-one years .
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We married two years later and Anthony and Georgina Andrews were the only showbusiness guests.
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We been married forty-three years now, and I knowed she was sick.
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The couple had been married nine years .
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He married Guilbert two years later.
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She was born when they had been married a few years .
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She served with him as co-president of the Dension University student government; they have been married for 39 years .
■ VERB
ask
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You ask me to marry you, perhaps first to seduce you.
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He told her what had happened and asked her to marry him.
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When I phoned Glyn, he asked me to marry him.
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Deronda calls on Mirah to ask her to marry him, laying his gloves and diamond ring on a table.
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I told Bill in Paris I was going to ask her to marry me.
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Soon enough, Ferdinand was professing his love and asking her to marry him.
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But when he had asked her to marry him, she had declined out of nothing more than pique.
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And when you asked if I was married , I lied to you.
decide
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A bachelor of nearly fifty decides to marry .
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They fall in love and decide to marry .
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Peter and I decided to get married straightaway.
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Still, she said, she would be nervous if her son decided to marry a Druitt girl.
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This had occurred due to these latter two persons deciding to marry one another and leave the profession.
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But the prince was kind, and Rapunzel decided she wanted to marry him.
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I asked him why he had decided to marry me.
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Ever since Polly had decided to get married , I had been making her a quilt.
get
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Depending upon the social circles in which the young adult moves there will be more or less pressure towards getting married .
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C., and Paris, to move to his home town of Perry, Ga., after getting married .
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The way I see it, we can't get married if I stay here.
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The beast turned back into a man and he and the woman got married .
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Then he had started on again about getting married and giving up her job.
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Isabel was thinking about getting married to some one else.
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Some people get married to the wrong person simply because they like the idea of the big day.
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I had hardly dated, and the next thing I knew I was getting married .
want
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I shouldn't think Helen would want to get married again.
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The mole: Handsome and well dressed as moles go; he wanted to marry Thumbelina.
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She certainly doesn't want to marry me.
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That meant taking Pre-Cana classes, a course of instruction for all couples who wanted to marry within the Church.
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There are three men who want to marry Bathsheba.
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Not that I want to get married , or do any of that conventional trip, you understand.
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But did he want to marry Elaine?
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He wanted to marry me this summer when it happened.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be married to sth
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Alison had shown enough respectable horror on discovering that he was married to prove she was a nice girl.
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As your Grace knows, Alexander was married to your Grace's late lamented sister, Margaret.
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He believed he had never married because he was married to his calling.
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It was like they were married to the Democrats, husband and wife, and nobody argues, but nobody talks.
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It wasn't as if she were married to him.
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She is married to Dave Walden, former chief of staff to Mayor Lanier.
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She was married to Milton Hayes, an Oceanic Lines purser, in 1929.
marry (into) money
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It was obvious to everybody in Rome that he had to marry money .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Do you think your sister will ever marry ?
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He converted to Catholicism so he could marry her.
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I married young - it was a mistake.
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Mum and Dad fell in love on the cruise and were married by the ship's captain.
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Rabbi Feingold will marry us.
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The only reason Carla married Henry was because she was pregnant.
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The priest who married us forgot his lines during the ceremony.
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Will you marry me?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He married and divorced Ava Gardner.
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He told me to marry Victor Cousin.
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In 1684 he married Anne, daughter of the duke of Orleans, in a typical dynastic arrangement.
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Last month her parents decided that she must marry Tajammul, whom she knew but did not like.
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She said the chances of siblings marrying are minuscule if the number of sperm donations are kept low.
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They involve men and women who have previously married and whose relationships have broken down.
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When Miss Temple marries, Jane feels the necessity of trying something new and advertises for a position as a governess.