Example sentences of "[vb past] die [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly Adalard 's influence was great ( Nithard was not alone in identifying Ermentrude as " Adalard 's niece " rather than as the daughter of Count Odo of Orléans , Adalard 's brother-in-law , though an obvious reason could have been that Odo had died eight years before , perhaps leaving Ermentrude in her uncle 's care ) . |
| 2 | Mrs Menzies had died five years before , killed by malaria and stomach trouble from their time in Bengal . |
| 3 | At the subsequent press conference held high in the stadium stand , Foster hushed even the most hardened of hacks by dedicating his gold medal to his mother who had died two years earlier , along with other members of his family , in a car crash . |
| 4 | This included my Dad , who had died two years before . |
| 5 | They had separated , and then he had died two years ago . |
| 6 | She had felt responsible for her twin since their mother had died two years ago . |
| 7 | And just to add insult to injury , Doreen 's husband , Mike , had died two years ago . |
| 8 | I was accepted as part of the family , which consisted of two daughters and a grandfather , ; the husband had died many years before . |
| 9 | The only other person in the bar was an old inhabitant of Cobham and during our conversation I mentioned that my beat-grandfather once lived in Cobham but had died many years before I was born . |
| 10 | His father had died that year . |
| 11 | The background was that Stanley 's first wife had died six years previously , and Joan had been her best friend . |
| 12 | Patrick 's mother had died twenty years before in the County Donegal , trying to prove that she could still climb to the top of a mountain called Muckish . |
| 13 | Her second husband had died Some years before , and now she lived with her son , George Grimsdale and his two young children in a large house at Windsor — 37 Victoria Cottages . |
| 14 | My father and mother had died some years before and I lived with my brother Rabah , my sister Rabiha , my wife Sulafa and my baby son . |
| 15 | She looked forty but must have been younger , and was dressed entirely in black — for her brother who had died three years ago , they said . |
| 16 | Francis , Daniel 's son , who was probably involved , had died three years earlier . |
| 17 | Guntram had died three years earlier and , according to the seventh-century chronicler Fredegar , Sigibert 's son , Childebert II ( 575 – 96 ) took over his kingdom , thus uniting what had been the kingdom of Orléans , but which came to be known as the kingdom of Burgundy , with that of Rheims , or Austrasia . |
| 18 | Here they discovered that their last great king had died several years previously , and still lay rotting in his widowed queen 's home . |