Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] been dead for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ty Fach had been dead for a long time . |
| 2 | Handel had been dead for five years , but his music was still enormously popular ; J C Bach ( whose concert series run by himself and his compatriot Carl Friedrich Abel was one of the highlights of musical life at the time ) was also music master to the queen and a member of her private chamber band : as such he was responsible for organizing elaborate concerts at court . |
| 3 | According to the coroner 's report , 27 year old Jeremy Parkinson had been dead for only 48 hours when he was found . |
| 4 | Linkworth had been dead for an hour . |
| 5 | Edmund had been dead for months and she had n't known it . |