Example sentences of "for dead " in BNC.
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| 1 | For dead Sicheus . |
| 2 | WELLINGTON ( AFP , AP ) — Three New Zealanders and an American given up for dead were found alive yesterday after drifting for four months on an upturned trimaran in the south Pacific . |
| 3 | Three times the ball was spun out to the right and three times Claude Gerald left the North Midlands defence for dead with a stunning hat-trick of tries . |
| 4 | DOA ( 15 Buena Vista 12 Oct ) is another remake , this time of a 1949 film noir , starting well as Dennis Quaid discovers he has been poisoned and will die within 24 hours : the initials stand for Dead On Arrival . |
| 5 | Ealing Studios made films as untypical of itself as Dead of Night ( 1945 ) , a collection of mostly unsettling tales of the fantastic and of hidden desires that erupt from below , Pink String and Sealing Wax ( 1945 ) , in which the son of a strict father becomes the unwitting accomplice in a woman 's murder of her husband , and even a costume melodrama , Saraband for Dead Lovers ( 1948 , Saraband in US ) . |
| 6 | It is as if he gave them up for dead when they left Shiloh . |
| 7 | Government-approved ‘ mousetrap ’ had for so long banished regional English cheeses , for instance , that they were given up for dead . |
| 8 | ‘ Simmetry ’ would be a place for dead people , lending new meaning to Blake 's poem about the tiger . |
| 9 | Then they make their ale from what they have collected , and those who do not come there to drink and do not give money at the foresters ' will are sorely punished at their pleas for dead wood , although the King has no demesne ; nor does anyone dare to brew when the foresters brew , or to sell ale so long as the foresters have any kind of ale to sell ; and this every forester does year by year to the great grievance of the country . |
| 10 | His third round of 67 left them all for dead , and with 11 holes to go for the Open he was ten shots ahead of the field . |
| 11 | Nothing is seen from the track to suggest the exciting underworld here apart from the covered shaft of Barbon pot nearby : this deep hole is used as a grave for dead sheep , but their bones and rotting carcases have not deterred enthusiastic cavers from exploring the passages and caverns extending from the gloomy depths . |
| 12 | The whole field left me for dead . |
| 13 | He lay for dead but very much alive . |
| 14 | A good many people suffered minor injuries in consequence ; but I believe those who suffered injuries were as nothing compared to those who wished to sustain an honourable contusion or bruise , or who , to make the whole setting more dramatic , lay on the ground as if laid out for dead without any injury at all . |
| 15 | ‘ He left her for dead . |
| 16 | ‘ Bed 's for dead people , ai n't it ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ This bloke left a young girl for dead and ruined a family 's life . |
| 18 | Sometimes the thread was misery , sometimes the black joy of an earth , blasted and left for dead , that went on labouring in darkness to renew itself . |
| 19 | A man on his way to Jericho was attacked , robbed and left for dead . |
| 20 | Once she got her bearings , she could head for Dead Rat and get Doc Threadneedle to sort out her skullplates . |
| 21 | Jackson jetted out of his blocks to leave the rest of his field for dead , crossing the line in 13.07 seconds . |
| 22 | £3m for dead AIDS woman |
| 23 | Meanwhile , our scintillating issue left our British rivals for dead . |
| 24 | And from the crown of the final bend it was murder in the Montjuic stadium as Gunnell first eased alongside the American , then left her for dead down the home straight . |
| 25 | And from the crown of the final bend it was murder in the Montjuic stadium as Gunnell first eased alongside the American , then left her for dead down the home straight . |
| 26 | SEVKI AKINCI : a 16-year old Kurdish boy , on 9 April 1992 he beaten and abused by soldiers , held down over an open fire , and then left for dead . |
| 27 | For Crohn 's disease , which has increased in frequency during the past 20–30 years , an additional three classes were defined for dead subjects based on their age and year of death ( table II ) . |
| 28 | The pier-end palmists and fake psychics , the spiritualists who wrote new concertos for dead composers , and sonnets for poets long since dust — all these would be left untouched . |
| 29 | In one case there were two 13-year-old girls , who had been sexually assaulted and left for dead . |
| 30 | A 39-year-old man admitted kidnapping two 13-year-old schoolgirls , raping one and indecently assaulting the other , before stabbing them with a three-foot-long ceremonial sword and leaving them for dead in the forest . |