Example sentences of "die in [num] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He continued to hunt and race till he was well over 83 , dying in 1826 at the age of 86 . |
| 2 | To have died in 1940 at the age of 35 is to have experienced in different ways the dramatic historical upheavals of the interwar period , and in particular in Nizan 's case , the post-revolutionary development of the Soviet Union and the growth of the French communist party . |
| 3 | His brother Luke , whom Coleridge had come to know and revere in London , had died in 1790 at the age of twenty-five ; Nancy , loved ‘ most tenderly ’ , had succumbed to tuberculosis the following year at only twenty-one . |
| 4 | A former employee of the Soviet KGB ( state security committee ) declared on Swedish television on March 10 that the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg , who had enabled thousands of Hungarian Jews to escape deportation to concentration camps during the Second World War , and who disappeared after his arrest by the Soviet military in Budapest in 1945 , had died in 1947 during a prison interrogation [ see also p. 37162 ] . |
| 5 | Newman died in 1890 after a career in which he had been successively the most influential thinker in the Church of England , and then in English Roman Catholicism . |
| 6 | Queen Alexandra died in 1925 at the age of 81 . |
| 7 | The Claire House appeal was launched in February , named in memory of nine-year-old Claire Cain who died in 1989 from a tumour behind her nose and eye . |
| 8 | Her older sister Catherine died in 1986 at the age of 104 and Dora , her younger sister last February , aged 95 . |
| 9 | His new wife was a Parisian and he spent the last eight years of his life in Paris , where he continued to practise until he died in 1843 at the age of eighty-eight . |
| 10 | She died in 1918 at the age of ninety-nine ; and she had a daughter , Dorothy , who married the explorer Henry Morton Stanley . |
| 11 | Another claim to fame by the village is that it is the birthplace of authoress Winifred Holtby , who sadly died in 1935 at the age of 37 and is buried in the churchyard here . |
| 12 | ‘ My grandfather died in 1935 at the age of eighty-eight . |
| 13 | Barclay 's son James , who died in 1771 at the age of twenty-four , was the youthful author of An Examination of Mr Kenrick 's Review of Mr Johnson 's Edition of Shakespeare ( 1766 ) . |
| 14 | Matthias did not reign long enough to consolidate his achievements for he died in 1490 at the age of fifty . |
| 15 | He retired to Hampshire and died in 1832 at the age of 76 . |
| 16 | When Jeremy Bentham , the radical jurist , philosopher and founder of University College , London , died in 1832 at the age of eighty-four he bequeathed his body to Dr Southwood Smith , an anatomist and author of Uses of the Dead to the Living , in which it was suggested that the difficulties experienced by medical schools in acquiring bodies for dissection could be alleviated if people chose to bequeath their bodies to them . |
| 17 | They had three sons ( one of whom died in 1938 at the age of fifteen ) and one daughter . |
| 18 | Hooker died in 1600 at the age of forty-six after catching cold on a passage by water between Gravesend and Greenwich . |
| 19 | Their son Rudolph , whose wedding was the first to be celebrated in Liverpool Cathedral , died in 1929 after an operation for appendicitis ; his twin sons died in infancy . |
| 20 | Most of his energies were directed to bringing about the union of the Scottish and English parliaments and he died in 1707 on the eve of his aim being realised . |
| 21 | George died in 1906 at the age of fifty-nine and Mary lived to be eighty-four . |
| 22 | Cézanne died in 1906 with the feeling of only partially having achieved the end for which he had striven so long and hard . |
| 23 | This ceased in 1986 , when I left the Midlands to return to the family home to help my sister in caring for our father , who died in 1988 at the age of 99 . |
| 24 | Today the influence of Isamu Noguchi , who died in 1988 at the age of eighty-four , is as vast as it is underrecognised . |
| 25 | Ferrari died in 1988 at the age of 90 . |
| 26 | Charlie Wilson died in 1988 in a drugs dealing dispute . |
| 27 | His ancestors came from Tilley , just across the parish boundary , where the first Richard Gough of that name died in 1538 at the age of eighty-three . |
| 28 | for Lewes in 1741 as a nominee of the Duke of Newcastle ; unfortunately the death of his wife the following year drove him mad and he died in 1743 after a series of suicide attempts . |
| 29 | Marshall Field died in 1905 at the age of seventy-one . |
| 30 | Rose of Lima was born in Peru in 1586 and died in 1617 at the age of thirty-one . |