Example sentences of "died in the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 News now of the unveiling of a fine memorial commemorating the 30 men of 30 Squadron and 20 men of 33 Squadron who died in the defence of Maleme airfield , Crete , in May 1941 .
2 A garrison of fewer than 10,000 men had held out against massive Japanese land and air forces and more than 3,000 died in the defence and subsequent occupation .
3 Hundreds of Somerset men died in the battle and in the executions ordered by Judge Jeffreys at the famous Bloody Assizes following the Royalist victory .
4 The six occupants of the house also died in the battle .
5 Richard also seems to have felt a special devotion for the shrine of Bury St Edmund 's — he may well have been attracted by a cult which celebrated a king who died in the struggle against pagans .
6 One bird died in the incident .
7 Daniel Stuart Mackenzie Chapman , 53 , of St Cuthbert 's Square , Norham , near Berwick died in the incident two miles east of his home at about 12.45pm .
8 And then you left us alone and we nearly died in the cold !
9 Amongst the Phoenicians live infants were placed in the arms of a idol , and died in the flames burning inside it .
10 FIVE-year-old survivor John Tomlins still does not know that his brother and sister died in the ferry tragedy .
11 Maybe he would continue to ride pointlessly around the forest of Haling Heart until he died in the saddle , and maybe even then he would still ride pointlessly around .
12 When Yerkes died in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel his empire was taken over by the son of a Derbyshire coach-maker , Albert Henry Stanley .
13 In the entrance hall of he present church the 20 bronze plaques commemorate both old and young — from Desmond William Green , who lived for 6 weeks , to many who died in the fullness of age .
14 He fought in the first World War and died in the Aegean in 1915 at the age of 27 .
15 The Middle East International of Jan. 24 reported that three guerrillas died in the raid , and also that Israeli rockets hit a nearby shanty town killing at least nine women and children .
16 One of these many memories I find myself repeating , even today is to retrace our Sunday morning walks from my home in Pilrig , Leith , to a hotel near the Tron Kirk ( where my aunt worked as a housekeeper ) stopping first at a statue , halfway up the Mound , of a kilted figure representing the Black Watch who died in the Boer War .
17 Harvey died in the year of the Rambles .
18 People will wonder if it is their fault that the person who died in the road traffic accident perhaps was not looking where they were going because of being preoccupied with what was happening just before they left home .
19 Gwynne died in the King 's Bench prison 24 January 1726 .
20 Ogden immediately before it , and Science and Poetry and Practical Criticism , which first appeared in 1926 and 1929 respectively , was published early in Richards 's long career ( he was born in 1893 , and died in the United States in 1979 ) , when he was teaching English literature at Cambridge .
21 One person died in the crash involving 30 vehicles on the southbound carriageway at junction 30 , near Chesterfield , Derbyshire .
22 One crew member ejected but was later found drowned , the other did not eject and died in the crash .
23 A CHARITY worker on her way to help children died in the crash .
24 Ceri Marsden , 17 , sat the exams before going on a family trip to Cyprus where she and her sister Sian , 14 , died in the crash .
25 Also a photograph of the grave of Oberfeldwebel Erich Maack and Unteroffizier Heinrich Haselmeyer who died in the crash of their Heinkel He 111 at a site near the Grimstone viaduct four miles to the west of Dorchester on August 13 , 1940 .
26 Name the two famous rock stars who died in the crash with Buddy .
27 Other aircrew who died in the crash were …
28 Graham Branch was one of ten people who died in the crash two years ago .
29 7 year old Ian Lilly died in the crash , along with 8 year old Sheree Lear 15 year old Paula Barnes , 16 year old Paul Carr and 19 year old Belinda Brown .
30 Peugeot passengers Paul Dyke , 19 , of St George 's Grove , Northallerton , and Jonathan Bell , 17 , of Leachfield Grange , Newsham , near Thornton-le-Street , died in the crash .
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