Example sentences of "[Wh pn] die at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 At the top of the Shoulder of Mutton Hill is the Poet Stone , dedicated to the memory of the poet Edward Thomas who died at the battle of Arras in 1917 .
2 The heroes of the faith who died at the hands of the persecutor had long enjoyed special honour among Christians , as , before them , among Jews .
3 A sad tale about a man who died at the age of 103 because no one would give him any money .
4 He did n't talk to his wife , who died at the age of thirty-three , having borne him nine sons .
5 THE Football Association are to request that players of all clubs competing in the third round of the FA Cup this weekend should wear black armbands in memory of former secretary Ted Croker , who died at the age of 68 on Christmas Day .
6 In 1896 he married Helena Agnes Dalrymple , daughter of T. W. Ainsworth of Blackburn ; they had a son who died at the age of nine , another son , and two daughters .
7 They had one daughter who died at the age of six ; the mother died shortly afterwards .
8 They had a daughter who died at the age of four in 1905 and two sons .
9 THERE WERE GOODBYES TOO for Nelson Piquet , who retired hurt after a terrible Indy smash … and , to everyone 's sorrow , to Denny Hulme , who died at the wheel of racing car in October .
10 They had two daughters , one of whom died at the age of thirty-eight , and one of whom , Stephanie , was to appear in the Gubbins oeuvre as The Awful Child , forever asking awkward questions .
11 They had two sons , the elder of whom died at the age of nineteen , and two daughters .
12 , Sir Percival Victor David Ezekiel , second baronet ( 1892–1964 ) , financier and sinophile , was born in Bombay 21 July 1892 , the fifth and youngest child in the family of three sons ( the elder two of whom died at the age of two ) and two daughters of ( Sir ) Sassoon Jacob David , later first baronet , cotton and yarn merchant , mill owner , and later founder and chairman of the Bank of India , and his wife Hannah , daughter of Elias David Sassoon , of Bombay .
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