Example sentences of "have be [verb] dead " in BNC.
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| 1 | A father of five has been shot dead in Ulster . |
| 2 | A lorry driver has been shot dead in his cab in Ulster . |
| 3 | A man has been shot dead at his home in Lancashire after he and his family were held hostage by armed raiders . |
| 4 | A British soldier who joined the rebel Croatian army in Yugoslavia has been shot dead . |
| 5 | A German tourist has been shot dead by a lone gunman in an attempted robbery in Scotland , his wife and daughter are seriously injured . |
| 6 | A British holidaymaker has been shot dead whilst on holiday in Florida . |
| 7 | Peter Alcock , the last miner of six trapped in the Bilsthorpe pit in Nottinghamshire , has been certified dead at the scene . |
| 8 | ‘ A young girl has been found dead , looks like she was stabbed . |
| 9 | When best-selling author Max Telligan 's secretary , Liz , and his about-to-be-ex-wife Harriet , read that he has been found dead in Munich , they are stunned . |
| 10 | LLOYD 'S Name Margaret Jones , 55 , who stood to lose £200,000 , has been found dead in her fume-filled car near her home at Parkhill , South Wales . |
| 11 | Did you know about the family that has been found dead ? |
| 12 | Ian Spiro , the businessman wanted for questioning after his wife and children were found murdered , has been found dead in the California desert . |
| 13 | A MAN has been found dead in a police cell at Greenock , Strathclyde Police said last night . |
| 14 | THE daughter of Liverpoolborn erotica impresario Paul Raymond has been found dead . |
| 15 | THE daughter of Liverpool-born sex entrepreneur Paul Raymond has been found dead at her luxury home . |
| 16 | A woman in her thirties has been found dead at her home after a man walked into a police station and said he wanted to talk to detectives . |
| 17 | ‘ But it 's a lot of money for something which has been lying dead for twelve years . ’ |
| 18 | Rat , Badger and Mole would not have been seen dead with The Economist : Mr Toad might have flaunted it unread on the hall table . |
| 19 | The End was somewhere the Rejects would n't have been seen dead , so when I was in my ambitious , conventional mood , that made it more attractive . |
| 20 | It was a figure in a mask and a jacksuit with all this gear in pockets all over it , and she had a headset , and one for me , one like I would have had on if I had n't taken off in such a hurry , and she had jets , which no Gnat would have been seen dead with . |
| 21 | ( These ‘ butler 's pantry ’ sinks are worth a few bob these days , either to the dockland yuppies doing up houses Jack the Ripper would n't have been seen dead in , or to amateur photographers who use them in their darkrooms . |
| 22 | But I did n't go to the altar ; to be honest it was n't for lack of offers , but because they always seemed to come from people I would n't have been caught dead at an altar with . |
| 23 | Even the lawns had been restored , like emerald carpets unrolled before his eyes ; sunblasted trees which might have been thought dead had miraculously clothed themselves with leaves . |
| 24 | While undergoing an operation his heart has stopped , but he has come back to life after having been declared dead and deposited in a coffin . |
| 25 | The Scentmakers ' Bazaar was not normally a place she would have allowed herself to have been seen dead in . |
| 26 | Astrel Charles , an opposition parliamentary deputy , was reported on Dec. 18 by the Caribbean news agency Trans World Radio ( Bonair ) to have been shot dead by a rural official who had demanded that Charles end a meeting with his constituents . |
| 27 | Five American nuns were reported on Nov. 1 to have been shot dead after disappearing between Oct. 20 and 22 in areas of Monrovia then controlled by Taylor 's forces . |
| 28 | Two Somali gunmen were reported to have been shot dead and several others wounded the same day in an attack on a UN compound in Mogadishu , and there were further reported incidents of continuing instability in the capital and elsewhere . |
| 29 | They ran back and found Alice had been struck dead by lighting . |
| 30 | Gironella 's solution was entirely individual : to focus on the art of the European past , looming large as it did in Latin American consciousness regardless of how often it had been declared dead and buried by Europeans . |