Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been dead for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ English football has been dead for a decade now , ’ he added . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Ty Fach had been dead for a long time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | According to the coroner 's report , 27 year old Jeremy Parkinson had been dead for only 48 hours when he was found . |
| 8 | Even though his father had been dead for twenty years , she talked about him as if he were still alive . |
| 9 | She knew the woman had been dead for a long time . |
| 10 | A doctor examined the body and decided that the man had been dead for several hours . |
| 11 | The men had been dead for at least a week and speculation is mounting that they had suffocated after locking themselves in the container . |
| 12 | Linkworth had been dead for an hour . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | My son has been dead for three years . |
| 16 | The fire had been dead for more than a day . |
| 17 | Edmund had been dead for months and she had n't known it . |
| 18 | Her mother had been dead for twenty years . |
| 19 | Their mother had been dead for years , and their father had died only three weeks before . |
| 20 | Well I mean her mother 's been dead for , I do n't know how many years . |