Example sentences of "he [verb] been dead for " in BNC.
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1 | Today he has been dead for several years , and still I have n't told the story . |
2 | He 'd been dead for several hours . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | ‘ I told you , he 's been dead for years , ’ the guard snaps . |
5 | He 's been dead for some time . |
6 | ‘ Because he 's been dead for over two hundred years . ’ |