Example sentences of "[verb] been dead for [noun] " 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 | He must have been dead for hours . ’ |
| 3 | Edmund had been dead for months and she had n't known it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Their mother had been dead for years , and their father had died only three weeks before . |
| 6 | Damned if he was going to call her Empress when her first husband , the Holy Roman Emperor , had been dead for years . |
| 7 | Young lads gather round the car which looks as if it had been dead for days or weeks . |
| 8 | We encounter people who have been dead for years , or improbably have conversations with film stars or royalty . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's been dead for hours , ’ he commented . |
| 10 | ‘ I told you , he 's been dead for years , ’ the guard snaps . |