Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [be] dead for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Even though his father had been dead for twenty years , she talked about him as if he were still alive . |
| 3 | A doctor examined the body and decided that the man had been dead for several hours . |
| 4 | My son has been dead for three years . |
| 5 | The fire had been dead for more than a day . |
| 6 | Her mother had been dead for twenty years . |