Example sentences of "die last year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliver Gillie , deputy editor of The Independent Magazine and formerly medical editor of the newspaper , won a special award for the paper 's health page , in yesterday 's first presentation of the Caroline Walker awards , created in memory of the campaigning nutritionist who died last year . |
| 2 | William Clark , who was press adviser to Anthony Eden during his premiership , wrote , while under sentence of death from the cancer of which he died last year , a book of mémoires d'outre tombe in the unconventional yet quite literal sense of that description . |
| 3 | He and his first wife , Judith , who died last year , had four children . |
| 4 | He is popular in Japan , more like a movie star than a politician ( partly because his brother , Yujiro , was a real film star until he died last year ) . |
| 5 | Wainwright , who died last year aged 84 , revolutionised footpath guides with his seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells , published between 1955 and 1966 . |
| 6 | He died last year . |
| 7 | ‘ You see , Simon died last year . ’ |
| 8 | The poetry-phobic Penguin flagship would never tell you , for instance , why Athenian shopkeepers closed their shutters when the Greek bard Yannis Ritsos died last year . |
| 9 | The appeal was set up by her friend , Lady Romsey in memory of her daughter Leonora Knatchbull who died last year at the age of five . |
| 10 | Mrs Fort , of Dagenham , Essex , died last year , five days after being punched and kicked by a boy who knocked on her door asking if he could search her garden for a lost football . |
| 11 | The appeal was started by Prince Charles ' cousin Lord Romsey and his wife Penny in memory of their daughter Leonora Knatchbull who died last year at the age of five . |
| 12 | Jean 's highly-respected husband , who often told her that Linford would reach the very highest level in his sport , died last year . |
| 13 | Robert Motherwell , who died last year , refined , over a period of years , a succession of related paintings he called ‘ The Open Series ’ . |
| 14 | Abstract paintings on the boards this month include those of James Brooks , the first generation Abstract Expressionist who died last year aged eighty-five . |
| 15 | At Browse and Darby , William Darby has collected thirty-five paintings from different periods of the career of Sir Robin Philipson , who died last year ( to 29 May ) . |
| 16 | They both died last year when a barn caught fire . " |
| 17 | More than a hundred kids were wounded and more than 30 died last year . ’ |
| 18 | Perhaps his finest single shot is an affectionate portrait of Zeng Yilu , his long-suffering father , who died last year . |
| 19 | She died last year , leaving him a considerable fortune . |
| 20 | American Ghosts and Old World Wonders [ Chatto ] is a collection of pieces she was writing when she died last year , but , with the exception of the opening story , I doubt this volume will secure her many new converts . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I see 97,307 people died last year of acute myocardial infarctions , ’ he remarks to an official in the Department of Health , trying to keep his tone conversational , as they go through the tables of statistics together . |
| 22 | The Woburn order included dwarf plums and cherries , French pears , an Elruge nectarine , and other fruit , with more young trees ‘ to make good those that died last year ’ in accordance with Gurle 's guarantee to supply ‘ the best of every sort in case any fail or die ’ . |
| 23 | IN MEMORY of three colleagues who died last year , Education Department staff at Torpichen Street have been holding a number of events to raise money for charity . |
| 24 | Anyway , he died last year . |
| 25 | ‘ He died last year . ’ |
| 26 | The game , which is sure to be a sell-out , has been organised as a memorial to Mervyn Brown , the former Irish League secretary who died last year after a long illness . |
| 27 | The game is a memorial one for Irish League secretary Mervyn Brown who died last year , with the receipts put into trust for the family — and to purchase the League headquarters in University Street to be named ‘ The Mervyn Brown Memorial Building . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I know that old Sir David only died last year — just before my own father — and I realise that she must be worried sick about poor Owen . |
| 29 | She died last year , soon after Helen 's husband died . ’ |
| 30 | Contractor Michael Grant , who was 24 , died last year in a blast at the Midlands Electricity heat and power station next to the Bulmers Cider factory in Hereford . |