Example sentences of "[verb] been dead for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Linkworth had been dead for an hour . |
| 32 | One reason for this was , of course , that since he had been dead for three months his eyes were in any case not in the best of condition . |
| 33 | Damned if he was going to call her Empress when her first husband , the Holy Roman Emperor , had been dead for years . |
| 34 | Edmund had been dead for months and she had n't known it . |
| 35 | The fire had been dead for more than a day . |
| 36 | And that it had been dead for at least half an hour ! |
| 37 | Yet I do not doubt that Aristotle and St Paul have done more to frame the Prime Minister 's mind and therefore the destiny of her Government than any thinkers who have been dead for less than 1,900 years . |
| 38 | We encounter people who have been dead for years , or improbably have conversations with film stars or royalty . |
| 39 | I think I have been dead for a long time now . |
| 40 | I have been dead for a long time and by day I circle the huge air above the hills and by night I sleep in the quiet rock , as quiet as the rock , and the little worms mean consolation as they eat me . |
| 41 | Suppressed maternalism it may be , but her passion shines through and she can recall in detail some animals , particularly dogs , that have been dead for half a century and some that did n't even belong to her . |
| 42 | ‘ I told you , he 's been dead for years , ’ the guard snaps . |
| 43 | He 's been dead for some time . |
| 44 | A : Oh no they lived in Canada eh he was married to my mother 's sister + + well she 's been dead for a number of years now + |
| 45 | ‘ Because he 's been dead for over two hundred years . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ She 's been dead for hours , ’ he commented . |
| 47 | Well I mean her mother 's been dead for , I do n't know how many years . |
| 48 | Then Jimmy said well you know she 's been dead for many years and er she says , oh that 's right . |
| 49 | Oh yes , keep it in the family oh dear she was my youngest sister too and she 's been dead for , oh bloody hell , she was eighty six when she died , how long 's that ago , a few years , I 'm the baby of the family and me brother 's the next one , and he 's eight eighty five now , is he ? |