Example sentences of "had died [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was widely reported that at least five people had died during food riots in Tehran on Nov. 2 , 1989 . |
| 2 | A lone grave , the resting-place of one who had died at sea , lay at a point of land under the shelter of a rugged knoll : the grassy mound was decked with a cross of white stones , and at either end an unhewn rock was placed to mark the spot as sacred ; and on the taller stone was a square patch whereon the remains of an inscription that bore a roughly-drawn cross and an anchor , and the fact J. M ‘ L. died at sea — all else defaced . |
| 3 | Her mother never tired of speaking of her own father , Don Humberto , who had been a gentleman adventurer and a favourite at the court of King John , but she had never met Dom João and could only assure Sara that if he was at all like his grandfather or his Uncle Pedro ( the one who had died at sea ) he would be a man of great charm , intelligence and wit . |
| 4 | Hey Nance , Nance , Nance , Nance , you know you were telling me that you thought someone had died at work ? |
| 5 | In that time he has said 27 funeral masses for gang members who had died at gunpoint . |
| 6 | Undefined neurological diseases , which in retrospect might have been Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease , had affected the patients ' fathers , who had died at age 68 and 71 respectively . |
| 7 | Until he had died for man 's forgiveness , until God had raised him from the dead by way of vindication , the Spirit which rested upon him was not available to be passed on to others . |
| 8 | And , since he had died for truth , he was a martyr , for this was what martyrdom meant . |
| 9 | In 1079 , Lanfranc asked Anselm to give his opinion , and ( as we know ) he argued that since Elphege had certainly died in the effort to save his tenants from an unjust exaction , he had died for justice ; and , if for justice , then also for truth , which is only justice in another mode . |
| 10 | In the spring , the news arrived that Swegen , the eldest of Earl Godwin 's family of seven sons and four daughters , had died on pilgrimage . |
| 11 | Chapman had died of cancer on Wednesday on the eve of the twentieth anniversary celebration of the first Monty Python show . |
| 12 | In fact , between 1982 and 1989 , the company paid out over £500,000 through a compensation scheme to the families of workers who had died of cancer . |
| 13 | Another study which looked at men whose wives had died of cancer of the cervix has shown that there is a much higher incidence of cervical cancer among their second wives than would be expected by chance . |
| 14 | His first wife , Catherine , had died of cancer in January 1990 , leaving him with their two sons , David , 15 , and James , 14 . |
| 15 | Bob 's wife Barbara had died of cancer when Kim was two and she was the only thing left in Bob 's life . |
| 16 | He too was an only child , the son of a widow : his father had died of cancer when he was seven . |
| 17 | If truth were known , he had had a wife , as well as a perdurable old mother , a great bicyclist and supporter of local Labour causes , but both of them had died of cancer , no replacements possible there . |
| 18 | There was a yellowish tinge on the tight-drawn skin that reminded Mrs Hellyer of her mother , who had died of cancer . |
| 19 | With the release of Buckley 's remains the bodies of only two Western hostages remained unaccounted for , Michel Seurat ( France ) who had died of cancer during captivity , and Alec Collett ( UK ) who was believed to have been executed by the Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Moslems in reprisal for the US bombing raid on Libya in April 1986 . |
| 20 | News agencies cited NPFL reports that 1,500-2,000 people had been killed , and said that numbers of refugees had died of exhaustion and hunger trying to reach Monrovia . |
| 21 | The announcement represented a victory for the Civil Liberties Organization , which the previous October had released a report drawing attention to the appalling conditions in Nigeria 's prisons and claiming that hundreds of prisoners had died of malnutrition or untreated diseases . |
| 22 | They had given out that he had died of typhoid . |
| 23 | The Associated Press news agency on Feb. 9 reported Bangladesh sources as claiming that 200 Moslem rebels detained in Arakan by the government had died of starvation or suffocation in the preceding week , while 75 others were reported missing after Myanman troops fired on boats of refugees . |
| 24 | The 330 replies showed that 22 servicemen had died of reticuloendothelia system neoplasms ( cancers ) , and another five dead men had a history of such diseases although they were not the primary cause of death . |
| 25 | The smell of antiseptic , and the helpless waiting , brought back powerful memories of the visitors ' room two years ago , where the doctor had come to break the mind-numbing news that during a routine operation to remove her appendix her mother had died of heart failure . |
| 26 | More than a hundred years after John Titford , the Frome volunteer , had died of consumption , Marwood was afflicted with the same disease under its more modern and bland title of ‘ T.B . ’ . |
| 27 | Dorothy alone remained a still centre , and when in January 1795 Wordsworth was left £900 in the will of Raisley Calvert , a young friend and admirer who had died of tuberculosis , there seemed nothing further to prevent them from realizing their hopes of a life together . |
| 28 | ‘ I hated you so much that I wrote back to him , telling him you had died of typhus fever at Lowood . |
| 29 | Technical experiments like stream-of-consciousness had died of inanition some years before , and they left few heirs ; and the poetic tradition of Eliot had been abandoned even by Eliot , who by the 1950s was writing little but plays . |
| 30 | Around 52,000 people had died in car crashes in America in 1985 , North pointed out , and 130,000 had died of lung cancer ; in perspective , the hostages were nothing . |