Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] been dead for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ English football has been dead for a decade now , ’ he added . |
| 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 | Volume iv was issued in 1908 , volume v in 1912 , and volume vi in 1921 ( by which time the author had been dead for five years ) . |
| 4 | Even though his father had been dead for twenty years , she talked about him as if he were still alive . |
| 5 | She knew the woman had been dead for a long time . |
| 6 | A doctor examined the body and decided that the man had been dead for several hours . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | My son has been dead for three years . |
| 9 | The fire had been dead for more than a day . |
| 10 | Her mother had been dead for twenty years . |
| 11 | Their mother had been dead for years , and their father had died only three weeks before . |
| 12 | Well I mean her mother 's been dead for , I do n't know how many years . |