Example sentences of "[verb] been dead for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | According to the coroner 's report , 27 year old Jeremy Parkinson had been dead for only 48 hours when he was found . |
| 5 | It had been dead for about three or four months . |
| 6 | Examining her responses to this normal catalogue of everyday events , of life , she found that she wished she was dead , had been dead for some time , so that she was used to it : and then she thought that if she had been dead for long enough , she would probably be bored with that by now . |
| 7 | Yet I do not doubt that Aristotle and St Paul have done more to frame the Prime Minister 's mind and therefore the destiny of her Government than any thinkers who have been dead for less than 1,900 years . |
| 8 | ‘ Because he 's been dead for over two hundred years . ’ |