Example sentences of "[adv prt] for dead " in BNC.
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| 1 | WELLINGTON ( AFP , AP ) — Three New Zealanders and an American given up for dead were found alive yesterday after drifting for four months on an upturned trimaran in the south Pacific . |
| 2 | It is as if he gave them up for dead when they left Shiloh . |
| 3 | Government-approved ‘ mousetrap ’ had for so long banished regional English cheeses , for instance , that they were given up for dead . |
| 4 | I 'm given up for dead by now , I 'm accepted for dead . |
| 5 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 6 | Aberdeen went ahead towards the end of the first half after Duncan Shearer chased a ball to the byeline that some would have given up for dead , and made the cross from which Mixu Paatelainen bundled the ball over the line . |
| 7 | A good many people suffered minor injuries in consequence ; but I believe those who suffered injuries were as nothing compared to those who wished to sustain an honourable contusion or bruise , or who , to make the whole setting more dramatic , lay on the ground as if laid out for dead without any injury at all . |