Example sentences of "[vb past] died in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I came back to England I was very humbled really to erm because I arrived in Nepal three hours before that crash and erm a lot of people had thought I 'd died in that crash and erm the patients had thought I 'd died as well and they had to put a big notice outside to say that I 'd been alright , they had lots of people ringing up . |
| 2 | She had stared at him wide-eyed , unseeing , and any desire that he might have felt had died in that instant . |
| 3 | He had not been with them since before the war and , as the youngest son , he saw his older brother and sisters passing away from him : Ada had died in 1943 , and now Henry was seriously ill with leukaemia . |
| 4 | Popova had died in 1924 . |
| 5 | Interest and miscellaneous expenses were , however , quite a different matter , and the fact that it had been in the nature of his employment to disburse vast and unspecified amounts , as he put it , ‘ upon the simple word of the treasurer ’ , who had died in 1635 , did not help matters . |
| 6 | On Feb. 24 IRNA , quoting the chief of the Iraqi Red Crescent , Ibrahim al-Nouri , reported that more than 5,000 women , children and elderly people had died in various hospitals throughout the country since Jan. 17 due to shortages of medicines and medical facilities . |
| 7 | Robert Hibbert had died in 1849 leaving money for religious purposes , which was at first applied to theological education . |
| 8 | These killings , in Mölln , Schleswig-Holstein , brought to 17 the number of people who had died in extremist attacks during 1992 . |
| 9 | It proved only a partial victory for Parker who had died in 1902 and it was not until 1919 that the first Moderators or de facto bishops were inducted to ensure higher , more uniform standards and greater control from London . |
| 10 | In a report released on Feb. 26 , the human rights organization Amnesty International alleged that more than 550 unarmed people had died in political killings by government or government-backed forces since 1988 , while hundreds of others had " disappeared " . |
| 11 | On the other hand , Dr. Rowland Atkinson had died in 1773 , and Roe no longer had his old partner to look after matters there . |
| 12 | Captain Kinloch had inherited the estate of Kinloch in Strathmore from his younger brother , John , who had purchased it from the proceeds of a fortune made as a sugar planter in Jamaica , and had died in 1770 . |
| 13 | It was over forty years before a trail led to Whitewright , Texas , where they were being offered for sale by the descendants of Joe Tom Meador , the lieutenant in question , who had died in 1980 . |
| 14 | On 2 October 1762 she married Robert Clark of Tetbury , Gloucestershire , whose first wife had died in 1755 shortly after the birth of a daughter , Mary . |
| 15 | His second son , Lionel Duke of Clarence , had died in 1368 , and his third son , John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster , spent much time abroad in the early 1370s . |
| 16 | Again , curiosity won the day and , as recorded by C. Collingnon in a paper delivered to the Royal Society , the body was that of Thomas Beaufort , Duke of Exeter , who had died in 1424 . |
| 17 | His eldest son Edward had died in 1370 , and his heir was now his younger son Richard , born at Bordeaux in 1366 . |
| 18 | One more child had died in 1768 , shortly to be followed by the births of daughters Elizabeth and Mary . |
| 19 | On Sept. 24 , Yeltsin and the Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev achieved a ceasefire agreement between the republics of Azerbaidjan and Armenia over Nagorny Karabakh , where an estimated 800 people had died in inter-ethnic conflict since 1988 . |
| 20 | ‘ Or would that we had died in this wilderness ! |
| 21 | Many things had died in this room and left their stink behind . |
| 22 | Nine years ago my uncle , Mr Reed , had died in this room , and since then nobody had wanted to sleep in it . |
| 23 | It was a time of great personal sadness ; his first wife had died in 1927 ; he had married Katherine Harrower-Peters the following year , but she too had died a few months later in an influenza epidemic . |
| 24 | However , this ambitious project was taken no further because Fairchild had died in 1727 , Miller was becoming preoccupied with his own writing and , after some dissension , the Society was disbanded . |
| 25 | A report in September 1989 by a parliamentary committee asserted that 5,877 people had disappeared in political circumstances in the past nine years and that another 2,346 had died in unexplained circumstances . |
| 26 | Earlier , in November 1990 , NLD representative Maung Ko had died in military custody ; the authorities claimed that he had committed suicide , but his relatives insisted that he had been tortured to death . |
| 27 | The report singled out three recent incidents : a demonstration in Kishinev ( the capital ) on Jan. 8 , when a funeral procession for a Moldavian youth who had died in suspicious circumstances had turned into a rally by up to 10,000 people protesting against Soviet and communist rule , and fights had ensued between rival gangs of Moldavian and Russian youths ; a picket of the district Moldavian CP committee building in the town of Chadyr Lunga by members of the Gagauz minority demanding creation of their own autonomous republic ; and a referendum on Jan. 28 called by the city soviet in Tiraspol , Moldavia 's second largest city , in which the predominantly Russian population had voted overwhelmingly ( over 96 per cent of a 92 per cent poll ) to declare greater autonomy for the Tiraspol district and to support the possible declaration of Tiraspol and neighbouring Russian-populated towns as an autonomous republic ( Tiraspol had been one of the main centres of strikes by Moldavia 's Russian and Ukrainian population in August-September 1989 against greater Moldavian language rights — see pp. 36855 ; 36898 ) . |
| 28 | Matilda 's German husband had died in 1126 . |
| 29 | His change in lifestyle perhaps owed something to his second marriage in 1863 ( his first wife had died in 1860 ) to Mrs Job Lees ( née Sarah Mayall , unrelated ) , from the ranks of the local élite . |
| 30 | It was , naturally , a substantial part of Wagner 's appeal that he was " flesh and blood " , a living genius , unlike Schopenhauer ( who had died in 1860 ) . |