Example sentences of "die [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must be dying for a drink . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Well , that 's an artful way to get me to wait on you , ’ interrupted Sally-Anne frankly , ‘ and I suppose , since you are so cunning , and I am dying for a drink , you might have your way — perhaps a bonus on my wages might be an idea , seeing that I shall be doing this out of hours . ’ |
| 3 | Had n't she been watching the models for weeks and dying for a chance to imitate them ? |
| 4 | ‘ He said , ‘ I was dying for a pint so when I saw the pub I decided to land and come in . ’ ‘ |
| 5 | ‘ Am I right ? ’ she repeated , dying for a row to ease the tension . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm dying for a swim , ’ Henrietta panted . |
| 7 | And dying for a drink.The badger falls victim to the drought . |
| 8 | ‘ I have been dying for a toke all day . |
| 9 | ‘ This is also a story of courage and compassion ’ said Owen , objecting to the fact that Inouye had called it ‘ sad and sordid ’ : ‘ caring and sharing ’ — ‘ of doing what is right , and dying for a cause ’ . |
| 10 | Nothing has gone down my throat , in fact I 'm dying for a beer , I have n't had a drink all morning |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm dying for a cup of tea , ’ Charlie announced . |
| 12 | Ooh , he was funny though , he was coming like that , and he 's dying for a stroke |
| 13 | I 'm dying for a cig ! |
| 14 | Ever found yourself ‘ dying for a cuppa ’ ? |
| 15 | She was dying for a coffee but some streak of perversity made her answer briskly , ‘ Neither , thank you . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm dying for a smoke . |
| 17 | Rather than dying for a reason she does n't comprehend . ’ |
| 18 | There was a moment of silence , and then the old lady , her tone returning to normal , looked at Grace as she said , ‘ Now , Grace , when the meal is over and there 's all this tosh about the ladies rising so the men can enjoy their port and cigars , here 's one who is staying behind because I 'm dying for a cigarette . |
| 19 | Dad looked as if he was dying for a cigarette : he gave up smoking two years ago when his secretary-before-last got lung cancer . |
| 20 | He walked back to his consulting room , dying for a cigarette . |
| 21 | There were two sons : John , the elder , became a solicitor 's clerk , dying as a bachelor in Lambeth in 1862 , while his brother Joseph , a house painter settling in Hoxton , assured the continuity of the Titford line by having a number of male children by his wife Elizabeth , née Griffiths . |
| 22 | While pneumonia is still a common occurrence , current preventative measures and improved treatment have reduced the numbers dying as a result to only 3% by 1989 . |
| 23 | While pneumonia continues to be a common occurrence , by 1989 improved treatment had reduced the numbers dying as a result to only 3% . |
| 24 | This means that the odds are between 630 to one and 1,176 to one against each of us dying as a result of drunken driving . |
| 25 | Patients dying as a result of postoperative complications ( within 30 days ) were excluded from the survival analysis . |
| 26 | More patients fall into this category than any other but despite the relatively localised extent of disease the long term outcome is unpredictable , 35–40% dying as a result of metastatic spread . |
| 27 | It 's been revealed that a prostitute who was found murdered was responsible for an eight year old boy dying of a drugs overdose . |
| 28 | It comes through friendship with June ( Elizabeth Perkins ) , an attractive young woman dying of a brain tumour , and through the mortifying experience of hospital bureaucracy from the other side of the counter . |
| 29 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 30 | Mr Tarrant — kindly portrayed in The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans as Mr Stodham — later introduced Edward to Mr Noble ( the father of his future wife ) who was slowly dying of a malignant , tubercular throat disease but was still actively engaged as ‘ Paul Pelican ’ , an influential journalist and critic . |