Example sentences of "be dead for " 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 | Prior to this she played Ophelia in both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead for Theatr Clwyd and on tour . |
| 7 | By the end of the novel Jaromil has forsworn his artist friend , who is under the ban of the regime and compelled to paint by candlelight : ‘ The whole world of his pictures has been dead for years . |
| 8 | Yet I do not doubt that Aristotle and St Paul have done more to frame the Prime Minister 's mind and therefore the destiny of her Government than any thinkers who have been dead for less than 1,900 years . |
| 9 | ‘ I told you , he 's been dead for years , ’ the guard snaps . |
| 10 | Young lads gather round the car which looks as if it had been dead for days or weeks . |
| 11 | He went on a while about the various tests but where he came out was that she 'd been dead for at least five days , and seven was perfectly possible . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It had been dead for about three or four months . |
| 14 | He 's been dead for some time . |
| 15 | Even though his father had been dead for twenty years , she talked about him as if he were still alive . |
| 16 | There is nothing he can tell you beyond what I already have — that as far as we are concerned my mother has been dead for more than twenty years . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Her mother had been dead for twenty years . |
| 19 | ‘ Certain highly technical factors , intelligible only to the expert and with which I will not take up the time of this inquest , have led me to conclude that Subject A had been dead for more than nine years and less than twelve . |
| 20 | Today he has been dead for several years , and still I have n't told the story . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She knew the woman had been dead for a long time . |
| 24 | ‘ The irony is that it 's all been dead for us lately . |
| 25 | ‘ English football has been dead for a decade now , ’ he added . |
| 26 | According to the coroner 's report , 27 year old Jeremy Parkinson had been dead for only 48 hours when he was found . |
| 27 | My son has been dead for three years . |
| 28 | The men had been dead for at least a week and speculation is mounting that they had suffocated after locking themselves in the container . |
| 29 | We encounter people who have been dead for years , or improbably have conversations with film stars or royalty . |
| 30 | ‘ Been dead for years now , has Titch , do n't live to a grand old age as a rule , his sort , everything 's compressed , you see , and he lived a lot longer than they usually do . |