Example sentences of "[verb] been dead for a " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ English football has been dead for a decade now , ’ he added . |
2 | One day I shall lie beside that grave and the stone will say ‘ Angharad ’ and I shall have been dead for a long time . |
3 | She knew the woman had been dead for a long time . |
4 | Ty Fach had been dead for a long time . |
5 | I think I have been dead for a long time now . |
6 | I have been dead for a long time and by day I circle the huge air above the hills and by night I sleep in the quiet rock , as quiet as the rock , and the little worms mean consolation as they eat me . |
7 | A : Oh no they lived in Canada eh he was married to my mother 's sister + + well she 's been dead for a number of years now + |