Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] die [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A commodity never difficult to find , in John-William 's experience , particularly now when the Chartist leaders , who had been locked up after the troubles of 1839 , were all out of prison again ; except for that Sheffield lad , of course , who 'd died at twenty-seven , from the hard labour he 'd been put to at Northallerton jail . |
| 2 | The Prime Minister of the Pakistan-based Afghan Interim Government ( AIG ) , Abdur-Rabbur Rasul Sayaf , dismissed the plan as an " affront " to the memory of the 1,500,000 Afghans who had died during 12 years of civil war . |
| 3 | Had it been the director with a retained shareholding of 30 shares who had died on 31 December 1986 , his estate too would have had the benefit of business assets relief , but at a lower percentage deduction . |
| 4 | Interest and miscellaneous expenses were , however , quite a different matter , and the fact that it had been in the nature of his employment to disburse vast and unspecified amounts , as he put it , ‘ upon the simple word of the treasurer ’ , who had died in 1635 , did not help matters . |
| 5 | Again , curiosity won the day and , as recorded by C. Collingnon in a paper delivered to the Royal Society , the body was that of Thomas Beaufort , Duke of Exeter , who had died in 1424 . |
| 6 | It was over forty years before a trail led to Whitewright , Texas , where they were being offered for sale by the descendants of Joe Tom Meador , the lieutenant in question , who had died in 1980 . |
| 7 | It proved only a partial victory for Parker who had died in 1902 and it was not until 1919 that the first Moderators or de facto bishops were inducted to ensure higher , more uniform standards and greater control from London . |
| 8 | It was , naturally , a substantial part of Wagner 's appeal that he was " flesh and blood " , a living genius , unlike Schopenhauer ( who had died in 1860 ) . |
| 9 | The last person to have the title emperor conferred on him by a pope before 962 had been a minor Italian prince , Berengar I , who had died in 924 . |
| 10 | He was , however , intrigued to talk in Mousehole with those who claimed to have known Dolly Pentreath , the last native speaker of Cornish , who had died in 1778 . |
| 11 | I was present in 1983 during the clearance of the vaults beneath St Marylebone parish church when the coffin of a two-year-old boy , who had died in 1815 , was opened . |