Example sentences of "had died of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Nice when he heard the devastating news that his Portuguese friend , the artist Amedeo de Sousa Cardoso , had died of Spanish flu he broke down and sobbed like a child . |
| 2 | Of 46 patients who had Nissen fundoplication for proved gastro-oesophageal reflux , 25 were available for follow up after a median of 20 years , 15 had died of unrelated causes , and six could not be traced . |
| 3 | He had an aunt in Leicester who had died of double pneumonia in 1964 , but she had never wanted to speak to him . |
| 4 | " Several young adult males had died of severe , generalized bacterial or fungal infections . |
| 5 | Three weeks later Lavender had died of puerperal fever , but long before that Legh had come to his senses . |
| 6 | Simon Cormack had died of massive explosive damage to spine and abdomen , caused by a detonation of small but concentrated effect near the base of his back . |
| 7 | But unofficially the word ran that he had died of plain starvation . |