Example sentences of "[vb -s] 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 | ‘ I told you , he 's been dead for years , ’ the guard snaps . |
| 7 | He 's been dead for some time . |
| 8 | 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 + |
| 9 | ‘ Because he 's been dead for over two hundred years . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ She 's been dead for hours , ’ he commented . |
| 11 | Well I mean her mother 's been dead for , I do n't know how many years . |
| 12 | Then Jimmy said well you know she 's been dead for many years and er she says , oh that 's right . |
| 13 | 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 ? |