Example sentences of "be dead for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might be dead for all anyone I knew ever cared . |
| 2 | He might even be dead for all you know ! |
| 3 | If they stayed where they were they were dead for certain . |
| 4 | Then you wonder , it 's dead for both of u , our relationship is there , it 's like a |
| 5 | My father is dead for many years . ’ |
| 6 | Donald , alas , had been dead for thirty years when Hilary Spurling published her admirable biography Ivy when Young and gave us the answers to our questions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Then Jimmy said well you know she 's been dead for many years and er she says , oh that 's right . |
| 10 | Even though his father had been dead for twenty years , she talked about him as if he were still alive . |
| 11 | Her mother had been dead for twenty years . |
| 12 | The Book of Remembering was for remembering the animals but they had been dead for twenty thousand years . |
| 13 | Suppressed maternalism it may be , but her passion shines through and she can recall in detail some animals , particularly dogs , that have been dead for half a century and some that did n't even belong to her . |
| 14 | He 's been dead for some time . |
| 15 | Examining her responses to this normal catalogue of everyday events , of life , she found that she wished she was dead , had been dead for some time , so that she was used to it : and then she thought that if she had been dead for long enough , she would probably be bored with that by now . |
| 16 | Today he has been dead for several years , and still I have n't told the story . |
| 17 | They had been dead for several days when police were called in by neighbours in the millionaire 's district of Rancho Sante Fe , near San Diego , California . |
| 18 | A doctor examined the body and decided that the man had been dead for several hours . |
| 19 | He 'd been dead for several hours . |
| 20 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 21 | The fire had been dead for more than a day . |
| 22 | My son has been dead for three years . |
| 23 | When Lorne and our mother , Lydia , visited the Toraja in 1971 they found that the last great king , Lasso Rinding Puang Sangalla , had been dead for three years , and was still lying in state awaiting his final star-launch . |
| 24 | 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 . |