Example sentences of "[vb past] died [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
| 2 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 3 | My paternal grandparents had died within a few months of each other whilst she was training , and as Grandfather had tied up all his savings in annuity for my grandmother , none of his children had inherited anything from him . |
| 4 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 5 | The Czechoslovak Communist leader , Klement Gottwald , who had died in the same year as Stalin and was embalmed like him and Lenin , suffered the indignity of springing a leak , loosing fluid , and slowly decomposing . |
| 6 | Two of his sisters and many of his relatives over three generations had died in the same way , indicating that the condition may be inherited . |
| 7 | Strangely , Gilkes , his predecessor , had died in the same manner , in the same area , in September , 20 years previously . |