Example sentences of "[verb] been dead for " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the novel Jaromil has forsworn his artist friend , who is under the ban of the regime and compelled to paint by candlelight : ‘ The whole world of his pictures has been dead for years . |
| 2 | There is nothing he can tell you beyond what I already have — that as far as we are concerned my mother has been dead for more than twenty years . ’ |
| 3 | Today he has been dead for several years , and still I have n't told the story . |
| 4 | ‘ English football has been dead for a decade now , ’ he added . |
| 5 | My son has been dead for three years . |
| 6 | He went on a while about the various tests but where he came out was that she 'd been dead for at least five days , and seven was perfectly possible . |
| 7 | Even though she 'd been dead for so long it could sometimes seem that she was still with him , a presence in the next room , someone on the other side of a door who waited and listened but who never stepped through , except when he dreamed . |
| 8 | He 'd been dead for several hours . |
| 9 | One day I shall lie beside that grave and the stone will say ‘ Angharad ’ and I shall have been dead for a long time . |
| 10 | He must have been dead for hours . ’ |
| 11 | Young lads gather round the car which looks as if it had been dead for days or weeks . |
| 12 | After the war opinion was more fluid and open on political grounds the tariff issue had been dead for years and I felt it was one which would pull the party together , including the Lloyd George malcontents . |
| 13 | It had been dead for about three or four months . |
| 14 | Even though his father had been dead for twenty years , she talked about him as if he were still alive . |
| 15 | Donald , alas , had been dead for thirty years when Hilary Spurling published her admirable biography Ivy when Young and gave us the answers to our questions . |
| 16 | Her mother had been dead for twenty years . |
| 17 | ‘ Certain highly technical factors , intelligible only to the expert and with which I will not take up the time of this inquest , have led me to conclude that Subject A had been dead for more than nine years and less than twelve . |
| 18 | They had been dead for several days when police were called in by neighbours in the millionaire 's district of Rancho Sante Fe , near San Diego , California . |
| 19 | Handel had been dead for five years , but his music was still enormously popular ; J C Bach ( whose concert series run by himself and his compatriot Carl Friedrich Abel was one of the highlights of musical life at the time ) was also music master to the queen and a member of her private chamber band : as such he was responsible for organizing elaborate concerts at court . |
| 20 | She knew the woman had been dead for a long time . |
| 21 | According to the coroner 's report , 27 year old Jeremy Parkinson had been dead for only 48 hours when he was found . |
| 22 | The men had been dead for at least a week and speculation is mounting that they had suffocated after locking themselves in the container . |
| 23 | When Lorne and our mother , Lydia , visited the Toraja in 1971 they found that the last great king , Lasso Rinding Puang Sangalla , had been dead for three years , and was still lying in state awaiting his final star-launch . |
| 24 | Their mother had been dead for years , and their father had died only three weeks before . |
| 25 | The Book of Remembering was for remembering the animals but they had been dead for twenty thousand years . |
| 26 | Ty Fach had been dead for a long time . |
| 27 | Examining her responses to this normal catalogue of everyday events , of life , she found that she wished she was dead , had been dead for some time , so that she was used to it : and then she thought that if she had been dead for long enough , she would probably be bored with that by now . |
| 28 | Examining her responses to this normal catalogue of everyday events , of life , she found that she wished she was dead , had been dead for some time , so that she was used to it : and then she thought that if she had been dead for long enough , she would probably be bored with that by now . |
| 29 | Volume iv was issued in 1908 , volume v in 1912 , and volume vi in 1921 ( by which time the author had been dead for five years ) . |
| 30 | A doctor examined the body and decided that the man had been dead for several hours . |