Example sentences of "[verb] been dead for years " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Their mother had been dead for years , and their father had died only three weeks before . |
| 4 | Damned if he was going to call her Empress when her first husband , the Holy Roman Emperor , had been dead for years . |
| 5 | We encounter people who have been dead for years , or improbably have conversations with film stars or royalty . |
| 6 | ‘ I told you , he 's been dead for years , ’ the guard snaps . |