Sentence examples for been dead only for from inspiring English sources

I would have been dead only for a man who was passing by in the park and ran over to help me.

When she went to bed last night Martin will have been clinging to the fact that four years ago after losing to Germany she claimed "we're out, we're dead" only for the cards to fall in her favour.

Lost You know all those people who halfway through series one said: "They're all dead," only for the producers to say they were wrong?

When that version fell through, the film was assumed dead only for Eastwood to revive it.

But the idea is that since you've only been dead for a few days, you might still be able to make out some of the compliments.

Carson's wife has only been dead for three months.

At this stage my son had only been dead for three weeks.

McConnell offered one of the first salvoes; Scalia had only been dead for a few hours when McConnell announced that he would oppose replacing him before the election.

Anderson showed me the dessicated remains of one body, which Anderson estimated had only been dead for a month.

Elsewhere, Scott's dead body is brought to a Massive Dynamic high-tech lab, where Sharp orders that Scott be interrogated, since he has only been dead for five hours.

Recently, I overheard someone say that emoji have been dead for a while and are now only for old moms.