Example sentences of "be dead for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father is dead for many years . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Then Jimmy said well you know she 's been dead for many years and er she says , oh that 's right . |
| 6 | Even though his father had been dead for twenty years , she talked about him as if he were still alive . |
| 7 | Her mother had been dead for twenty years . |
| 8 | He 's been dead for some time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A doctor examined the body and decided that the man had been dead for several hours . |
| 11 | He 'd been dead for several hours . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 14 | Today he has been dead for several years , and still I have n't told the story . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | My son has been dead for three years . |
| 17 | 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 . |