Example sentences of "[vb past] been dead for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He 'd been dead for several hours . |
| 4 | Young lads gather round the car which looks as if it had been dead for days or weeks . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It had been dead for about three or four months . |
| 7 | Even though his father had been dead for twenty years , she talked about him as if he were still alive . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Her mother had been dead for twenty years . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She knew the woman had been dead for a long time . |
| 14 | According to the coroner 's report , 27 year old Jeremy Parkinson had been dead for only 48 hours when he was found . |
| 15 | The men had been dead for at least a week and speculation is mounting that they had suffocated after locking themselves in the container . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Their mother had been dead for years , and their father had died only three weeks before . |
| 18 | The Book of Remembering was for remembering the animals but they had been dead for twenty thousand years . |
| 19 | Ty Fach had been dead for a long time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | A doctor examined the body and decided that the man had been dead for several hours . |
| 24 | Linkworth had been dead for an hour . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Damned if he was going to call her Empress when her first husband , the Holy Roman Emperor , had been dead for years . |
| 27 | Edmund had been dead for months and she had n't known it . |
| 28 | The fire had been dead for more than a day . |
| 29 | And that it had been dead for at least half an hour ! |