Example sentences of "[noun prp] died at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because there was no register of potential donors at that time , no match was found and Anthony died at the age of seven . |
| 2 | One example was at London Zoo when a polar bear called Brumas died at the age of nine because he ate something which had been thrown into his enclosure . |
| 3 | There was more sadness in 1957 when Mr Field died at the age of seventy-seven . |
| 4 | In 1879 the eldest daughter to the Rev. Richard Cecil died at the age of 97 . |
| 5 | Each year Ba'al died at the end of the harvest , was revived , then ascended to his throne and opened a cleft in the clouds so that the rain could fall . |
| 6 | When Hornby died at the height of his company 's success , the annual output of his factories totalled millions of Meccano sets , Hornby trains , and Dinky toys , which had become household names throughout the world . |
| 7 | After a wild success Raymond died at the age of 20 from typhoid brought about by eating oysters . |
| 8 | Fracastorius , in whose poem Syphilis , the shepherd , was cured by guaiacum , endorsed the product and it was all the rage until Von Hutten died at the age of 35 of late syphilis in spite of his alleged cure . |
| 9 | Rolle died at the height of the plague , but his reputation as a loved spiritual counsellor survived him — probably furthered by his disciple William Stopes who seems to have been a young religious and acted as Rolle 's literary executor after his death . |
| 10 | When Queen Victoria died at the beginning of 1901 , Britain entered into the Edwardian Era with changes taking place at an ever increasing pace . |
| 11 | Humphrey Bohun Earl of Hereford died at the age of thirty in 1373 leaving , like Lancaster , two coheiresses , though both were under age when their father died . |
| 12 | When Thomas Cook died at the age of eighty-four in 1892 The Times obituary was fulsome in praise of his achievements , but bemoaned the fact that he could not change the character of the average tourist : |
| 13 | John Lewis died at the beginning of November 1761 , and Esther Lewis appears to have been left without a home . |
| 14 | The Labour party was changing too : Aneurin Bevan died at the age of 62 in July 1960 , and with him much of the reforming passion which had created the Welfare State . |
| 15 | George Orwell died at the age of 47 , from tobacco-assisted tuberculosis . |
| 16 | The incident happened late last night and was less than forty eight hours after fourteen year old Sally Cattell died at the wheel of a stolen car in a crash in Erdington , Birmingham . |
| 17 | Laurent died at the height of his powers in 1853 , but his ideas slowly gained ground over the next ten years . |
| 18 | Holroyd Smith died at the age of 84 in North Wales , still at work inventing devices to assist in his favourite hobby of angling ! |