Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been dead for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I have been dead for a long time now . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He went on a while about the various tests but where he came out was that she 'd been dead for at least five days , and seven was perfectly possible . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 + |
| 7 | ‘ She 's been dead for hours , ’ he commented . |
| 8 | Then Jimmy said well you know she 's been dead for many years and er she says , oh that 's right . |
| 9 | Oh yes , keep it in the family oh dear she was my youngest sister too and she 's been dead for , oh bloody hell , she was eighty six when she died , how long 's that ago , a few years , I 'm the baby of the family and me brother 's the next one , and he 's eight eighty five now , is he ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Book of Remembering was for remembering the animals but they had been dead for twenty thousand years . |
| 12 | Today he has been dead for several years , and still I have n't told the story . |
| 13 | He 'd been dead for several hours . |
| 14 | Young lads gather round the car which looks as if it had been dead for days or weeks . |
| 15 | It had been dead for about three or four months . |
| 16 | And that it had been dead for at least half an hour ! |
| 17 | One reason for this was , of course , that since he had been dead for three months his eyes were in any case not in the best of condition . |
| 18 | ‘ I told you , he 's been dead for years , ’ the guard snaps . |
| 19 | He 's been dead for some time . |
| 20 | ‘ Because he 's been dead for over two hundred years . ’ |