Example sentences of "[verb] been dead for [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Today he has been dead for several years , and still I have n't told the story . |
2 | He 'd been dead for several hours . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | A doctor examined the body and decided that the man had been dead for several hours . |
5 | The fire had been dead for more than a day . |
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 | Suppressed maternalism it may be , but her passion shines through and she can recall in detail some animals , particularly dogs , that have been dead for half a century and some that did n't even belong to her . |
8 | Then Jimmy said well you know she 's been dead for many years and er she says , oh that 's right . |
9 | He 's been dead for some time . |