Example sentences of "have been dead [prep] " 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 | He was found down by the river this morning and he 'd been dead since midnight or before . ’ |
| 10 | One day I shall lie beside that grave and the stone will say ‘ Angharad ’ and I shall have been dead for a long time . |
| 11 | He must have been dead for hours . ’ |
| 12 | Blagg would have been dead of old age before we got clearance . ’ |
| 13 | Formal negotiations for the English match might have been dead by the end of 1543 ; discussions about the queen 's marriage were not . |
| 14 | She could have been his mother , for he was the son of John Symmys of that parish , or even his relict , for he himself must have been dead by 1525 , when the Ridlington lease was granted to the duke of Richmond . |
| 15 | The Rev Aaron Longwe , who has been detained and tortured by the regime for speaking out about corruption , told a gathering of former missionaries at the Kirk 's headquarters in Edinburgh : ‘ If it were not for the Church of Scotland some of us would have been dead by now . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ True , ’ said Isambard , grinning at him , ‘ it 's a pity to think I might have been dead by this , and you ten miles away on your road home . |
| 17 | Well he could have been dead by then . |
| 18 | He 'd have been dead in a very few minutes . |
| 19 | On a crowded traffic way he 'd have been dead in under a minute but the barren landscape of this world offered little in the way of obstacles and the vehicle seemed able to right itself over the irregular peaks that occasionally reared unexpectedly out of the mists . |
| 20 | An unnecessary signal : the radios had been dead since the crash landing . |
| 21 | Young lads gather round the car which looks as if it had been dead for days or weeks . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It had been dead for about three or four months . |
| 24 | Even though his father had been dead for twenty years , she talked about him as if he were still alive . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Her mother had been dead for twenty years . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She knew the woman had been dead for a long time . |