Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] die [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eldest son Edward had died in 1370 , and his heir was now his younger son Richard , born at Bordeaux in 1366 . |
| 2 | One more child had died in 1768 , shortly to be followed by the births of daughters Elizabeth and Mary . |
| 3 | A girl on a health education course I once taught told me of someone she knew whose husband had died after six months of marriage . |
| 4 | Matilda 's German husband had died in 1126 . |
| 5 | On the other hand , Dr. Rowland Atkinson had died in 1773 , and Roe no longer had his old partner to look after matters there . |
| 6 | On 2 October 1762 she married Robert Clark of Tetbury , Gloucestershire , whose first wife had died in 1755 shortly after the birth of a daughter , Mary . |
| 7 | It was a time of great personal sadness ; his first wife had died in 1927 ; he had married Katherine Harrower-Peters the following year , but she too had died a few months later in an influenza epidemic . |
| 8 | His change in lifestyle perhaps owed something to his second marriage in 1863 ( his first wife had died in 1860 ) to Mrs Job Lees ( née Sarah Mayall , unrelated ) , from the ranks of the local élite . |
| 9 | He had not been with them since before the war and , as the youngest son , he saw his older brother and sisters passing away from him : Ada had died in 1943 , and now Henry was seriously ill with leukaemia . |
| 10 | However , this ambitious project was taken no further because Fairchild had died in 1727 , Miller was becoming preoccupied with his own writing and , after some dissension , the Society was disbanded . |
| 11 | Lewis 's father had died at sixty and his grandfather at sixty-two . |
| 12 | But although I chose it virtually at random , this does not make it ‘ typical ’ , any more than the horrific Bihar gaol described by Sinha ( 1978 ) in which 143 people had died within three years . |
| 13 | Popova had died in 1924 . |
| 14 | Robert Hibbert had died in 1849 leaving money for religious purposes , which was at first applied to theological education . |
| 15 | Reporters who visited the Dollo camp , about 425 miles south-west of Addis Ababa , said three babies had died within two hours . |
| 16 | Paul had died at ten o'clock that morning . |
| 17 | The United Kingdom Parliamentary Human Rights Group Report , published on April 4 — the day the Dalai Lama arrived in the UK for a nine-day pastoral visit — and alleging that over 1,000,000 Tibetans had died between 1950 and 1984 as a direct result of Chinese rule , brought the same response . |
| 18 | The Cologne-based Association of the Victims of Stalinism claimed that around 21,000 internees had died after 1945 in Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen and that 90,000 people had died in camps set up by Soviet occupying forces in eastern Germany after 1945 . |