Example sentences of "die just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barbara Stanwyck spent her whole career suffering and dying just because the dreamership could n't stand to see a woman come first . ’ |
| 2 | Her mother had surprised everyone by dying just as they were recovering from her husband 's death . |
| 3 | Each year there are over 7,500 miscarriages and more than 450 babies who , due to parental smoking , die just before , during , or very soon after birth , says the author of the report , Dr Tony Lee , of the Princess Elizabeth Hospital , Guernsey . |
| 4 | So if they 're out of the water they die just like if we 're under the water too long we die . |
| 5 | His wife had died just over a year earlier ; one of his daughters was a teacher in Tel Aviv , the other a painter , and Shlomo Green was himself a sculptor of some distinction . |
| 6 | This was precisely the situation in which Charles and Elizabeth found themselves in 1772 ; and we may surmise that they did what brother John was to do later — in the absence of Thomas the Calvinist , who had died just over a year previously , they honoured Charles 's elder brother William by making him the godfather and giving the child his Christian name . |
| 7 | It was a Herculean task , and she 'd died just as she was beginning the nineteenth volume , with no end in sight , but even the one book in Godolphin 's possession was enough to guarantee that he would search for the others until his dying day . |
| 8 | Boddy , describing very slowly and emphatically how Asquith had died just before he could meet him , put his own hand through the same manoeuvre , and one by one all the other spare left hands disappeared behind their owners ' backs , too . |
| 9 | Maisie 's father had died just after Christmas . |
| 10 | Once , she would have died just to hear a kind word . |
| 11 | An eighty eight year old woman has died just hours after two bogus officials called at her home . |
| 12 | But you did n't die just because you were taken to hospital — unless you were old . |
| 13 | Her will included legacies of twenty pounds each to her Frome cousins , Mary and Sarah , the daughters of her uncle John Titford ; she was not to know that Mary would die just two months before she did , though Sarah , as we shall see , survived for another five years , long enough to bless the generosity of her Surrey cousin . |
| 14 | Well , since God has decreed that I do n't die just yet , I look forward to getting to know you better . ’ |
| 15 | MARGARETE Buber-Neumann lived and suffered much in the eye of the storm of history that tore Europe apart , and died just as the world was watching incredulously what seems to be the great schism 's healing . |
| 16 | In 1981 , when he was known to be seriously ill , Henry Fonda was voted Best Actor for On Golden Pond : his daughter and ( co-star ) Jane picked up the Oscar for him , and he died just five months later . |
| 17 | Angela died just as she was beginning to be more widely accepted . |
| 18 | Although he survived the blow to his head , the accident turned out to be the start of a rapid decline and he died just a few months later . |
| 19 | He died just a few months before the war began , aged ninety-six . |
| 20 | Frankie Howerd : April 19 , aged 71 : ‘ Titter Ye Not ’ master of sexual innuendo and star of Up Pompeii , who died just as he was enjoying a big comeback . |
| 21 | Cyril Smith , from Carrickfergus , died just over a year ago after a huge bomb was driven into the border checkpoint at Newry . |
| 22 | He went on an orgy of self-destruction in 1985 , after his fiancée left him when their baby daughter died just two days old . |
| 23 | Happily there was no quick cash-in when ROY ORBISON died just before Christmas 1988 , and his widow Barbara has left it four years before releasing his posthumous album KING OF HEARTS ( Virgin ) . |
| 24 | Anna who had renal cancer , died just hours after she learned officially that she had graduated from Northumbria University . |
| 25 | Leopold died just under two months later , alone , on 28 May . |
| 26 | One of the coach passengers died just as we arrived on duty . |
| 27 | Bel-Korhadris died just after the completion of the White Tower and was buried amid its foundations . |
| 28 | The arms were granted to the princess on her marriage to Prince Leopold of the Belgians and are especially rare because she died just a year later in childbirth . |
| 29 | And , then that famous man who died just recently , Finniston was asked to er , present a report to the government about ten years ago , in which he was going to knock the heads together again and try to get some kind of er organisation which would actually get the institutions to cooperate and coordinate their activities and that was the beginning of the Engineering Council . |
| 30 | And she responded , though too late to save my grandmother , who died just before Easter . |