Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] dead [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was found down by the river this morning and he 'd been dead since midnight or before . ’ |
| 2 | Edmund had been dead for months and she had n't known it . |
| 3 | After the war opinion was more fluid and open on political grounds the tariff issue had been dead for years and I felt it was one which would pull the party together , including the Lloyd George malcontents . |
| 4 | Their mother had been dead for years , and their father had died only three weeks before . |
| 5 | Damned if he was going to call her Empress when her first husband , the Holy Roman Emperor , had been dead for years . |
| 6 | Young lads gather round the car which looks as if it had been dead for days or weeks . |