Example sentences of "die at his " in BNC.

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1 His last years were marred by debilitating illness but , a compulsive worker , he went on writing until the end , dying at his home in Cambridge 19 December 1978 .
2 Adrian Quist , twice Wimbledon doubles champion and three times winner of the singles at the Australian Open , has died at his home in Sydney from cancer , aged 78 .
3 After returning to Bombay early in 1858 he was appointed the East India Company 's agent in Zanzibar and British consul , the previous consul having died at his post thirteen months previously .
4 ANTHONY Bowles , the original musical director for Jesus Christ Superstar in London in 1971 and another Andrew Lloyd Webber hit musical , Evita , in 1978 , has died at his London home .
5 ALFRED McTEAR , the first Scot preparing to take a tobacco company to court blaming it for his lung cancer and claiming compensation , has died at his Ayrshire home .
6 In 1702 a Miss Chapman , the last in this Chapman line and heiress to Widcombe , married Philip Bennet , and they lived and died at his family home of Maperton , near Wincanton .
7 Hard-drinking Elliott , who once boasted of a ‘ very active ’ sex life , died at his home on Ibiza surrounded by his wife and two children .
8 He died at his family 's Wiltshire home after a short illness .
9 Father-of-four Mr Ayre , 38 , died at his home in Radyr , Cardiff , the day after complaining of constant pains .
10 James Watt died at his Heathfield home on 25th August 1819 .
11 He died at his house at Sycamore Hill , Handsworth , Birmingham on 15th November 1839 aged 85 .
12 My co-author and friend Professor A. R. Collar , C.B.E. , LL.D. , F.R.S. , Emeritus Professor of Aeronautical Engineering in the University of Bristol , distinguished aeronautical scientist and former Vice-Chancellor of that University , died at his home in Bristol on 12th February 1986 , just ten days before his 78th birthday , and only a short time before our book was published .
13 He died at his home in Plymouth 13 January 1842 and was buried in St Andrew 's New Cemetery .
14 Singer died at his London residence , 52 Leinster Square , 21 August 1906 , and was buried in the United Synagogue 's Willesden cemetery .
15 He retired from practice in 1852 because of ill health , and moved first to Kent and then to Buckinghamshire , where he died at his home , Western House , Great Marlow , 26 September 1867 .
16 He died at his home at 6 Fitzroy Square 28 September 1848 , and was interred initially in the family vault at St Mary 's , Paddington Green .
17 He died at his home at Heston 4 March 1947 and is buried , with his wife ( died 1967 ) at Heston parish church .
18 Preston died at his home in Orwell Park , Rathgar , Dublin , 7 March 1900 .
19 He died at his home in Surbiton , Surrey , 7 November 1912 , whilst still in office .
20 Fowler died at his home , Spondon Hall , Derby , 16 October 1938 , and was buried at Nottingham Road cemetery , Derby .
21 Matcham died at his home in Southend 17 May 1920 .
22 He died at his house , 1 Hyde Park Gate , London , 16 September 1868 .
23 Headlam died at his home in St Margaret's-on-Thames , after a number of heart attacks , 18 November 1924 .
24 Bodley died at his home at Cuckfield 28 May 1925 .
25 Standidge retired from business in 1798 and died at his home in High Street , Hull , 10 February 1801 .
26 He died at his house in Nicolson Street in Edinburgh 29 February 1828 .
27 Thornton died at his suburban mansion , Cannon Hill , in Merton , Surrey , 20 June 1865 , and was buried in Norwood cemetery .
28 He died at his London home in Sermon Lane in 1733 .
29 Marks died at his home , Cerne Abbas , Bournemouth , 24 September 1938 and was buried in the North Bournemouth cemetery .
30 Lapworth died at his home in Birmingham 13 March 1920 .
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