Example sentences of "have died [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 A Scottish naval rating has died during a training exercise on an army firing range in County Down .
2 THE daughter of porn king Paul Raymond has died of a suspected heart attack , less than a month after splitting from her husband .
3 Philip Chappell , celebrated as a champion of rights of the individual investor , has died of a brain tumour at the age of 63 : he was chairman of ICL Plc through the firm 's gathering financial crisis of 1980 and 1981 after the retirement of Tom Hudson and resignation of managing director Geoff Cross .
4 John Kemeny , co-creator with Thomas Kurtz of the Basic computer language at Dartmouth College , has died of a heart attack in Lebanon , New Hampshire ; he was 66 .
5 Since then her husband has died of a heart attack , no doubt a result of the stress caused by the endless bombing of Baghdad .
6 Former Oxford United player , Tommy Caton , has died of a suspected heart attack at his home at Bampton in Oxfordshire .
7 THE former prime minister of Pakistan , Mohammad Khan Junejo , has died of a heart attack in Baltimore in the United States , where he was undergoing treatment for leukaemia .
8 The fire has died to a nest of grey feathers .
9 If it has died as a result of dog fighting then immediate action will be taken to stamp this odious business out straight away . ’
10 Albert Geldard , who gained an FA Cup-winners ' medal with Everton in 1933 and won four England caps , has died in a Bury hospital , aged 75 .
11 They emigrate to Australia , and do not learn till long afterwards that Ham has died in a vain attempt to save a drowning man , who turns out to be Steerforth .
12 COWBOY actor Dana Andrews has died in a California hospital of pneumonia aged 83 .
13 AN elderly man has died in a fire at his east Belfast home .
14 One person has died in a fire at a house in the Govan area of Glasgow .
15 Laura Davies has died in a Pittsburg hospital .
16 Gleave , one Liverpool 's wartime air heroes , has died in a Berkshire hospital at the age of 84 .
17 CRICKET : Joseph ( Joss ) Darley , secretary of York and District Saturday Cricket League for 29 years until retiring in 1980 , has died in a nursing home near York aged 85 .
18 A Middlesbrough driver has died in a road accident in Kirkby Stephen , Cumbria .
19 DEIRDRE Keaney , a member of the Scottish Arts Council and chair of its literature committee since 1989 , has died in a road accident , aged 60 , writes Deirdre Chapman .
20 IAIN Walker , executive editor of the Mail on Sunday , has died after a fall on An Teallach , while descending in mist from the mountain 's notoriously treacherous rocky crest .
21 CORONATION Street actor Teddy Turner , who played Chalky White in the popular soap , has died after a long illness aged 75 .
22 AN 11-year-old boy has died after a tragic accident while playing on a swing in the garden of his Co Londonderry home .
23 Tony Wilkinson , known in the industry as one of the pioneers of the lager revolution in Britain , has died after a 15 month battle against cancer .
24 A soldier has died after a triple bomb attack in Northern Ireland .
25 A fourth man has died after a road accident in Gloucestershire .
26 Meanwhile , a three-year-old boy , Hafeez Mahmood , has died after a hit and run accident at Smethwick in the West Midlands .
27 ONE of the founders of successful North Yorkshire food group Dalepak has died after a two year battle against leukaemia .
28 A PILLAR of a church community , renowned for his friendship and kindness , has died after a short illness .
29 ALEX Taylor , a recording artist whose brothers and sisters included the musicians James , Livingston and Kate Taylor , has died after a heart attack .
30 There 'd been a repeat of the sensational reports about Waite — he 'd died of a heart attack in an Iranian prison camp and his body returned to Beirut , or the island of Cyprus was on alert for his imminent release — and a three-day series on all the hostages in the Independent , but there was still no questioning of government policy nor a proper analysis of what was really happening .
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