Example sentences of "[Wh pn] died [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Champion was a friend of two youngsters who died on a stolen police motorbike in July , sparking three nights of rioting in the Hartcliffe area . |
| 2 | There is an even older version of the song , describing the fate of a young lady who died of a broken heart after being jilted by her lover . |
| 3 | In July 1990 British researchers investigating the origins of AIDS reported that tests on a man who died of an unexplained disease in 1959 showed that he had carried the HIV virus . |
| 4 | Celebrating a new $3m contract in 1921 , the 34-year-old comic threw a three-day party in a San Francisco hotel which ended in the fatal rape of 25-year-old starlet Virginia Rappe , who died from a ruptured bladder . |
| 5 | ‘ There was some trouble at the end of last year about a little gipsy child who died from a burst appendix . |
| 6 | A JETSKIER who died in a freak holiday accident was buried yesterday . |
| 7 | The funeral has taken place of a student who died in a mysterious barn fire nine months ago . |
| 8 | Prince Charles has paid tribute to soldiers from the Gloucestershire Regiment who died in a fierce battle forty one years ago . |
| 9 | THE funeral was taking place today of Comber businessman Ken McWhinney who died in a tragic flying accident at an air rally in the Republic on Sunday . |
| 10 | An inquest opened yesterday on two teenagers who died in an old quarry pond . |
| 11 | Written in memory of a Jewish friend who died in an Nazi concentration camp , it is a work of great depth and imagination ; Shostakovich at his very best . |
| 12 | Down the road a man in his fifties — a window cleaner — lost his wife who died after a long and harrowing illness . |
| 13 | By dissecting the brain of a 74-year-old man who died after a 14-year history of Alzheimer 's , DeLong and his co-workers showed a ‘ profound and selective loss ’ of Meynert cells , compared to brains of people who died without a history of dementia . |
| 14 | Alexander tried to steady Muscovites by visiting the city in September 1855 , but his visit was offset by the effect on public opinion of the Westernizers ' laments for Granovskii , who died after a short illness on 4 October . |
| 15 | In 1839 he married in Canada Sarah Antoinette ( died 1843 ) , daughter of Henry Veicht of Madeira ; they had two sons , one of whom died at an early age and the other , Beaufort , who became a general in the Canadian army . |