Example sentences of "die of a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Days later , Liam Taylor , a seven-week old baby in her care , had died of a mysterious heart attack . |
| 2 | As a male Caucasian with a father who had died of a coronary thrombosis at the age of 59 , I was brought up in the smoky atmosphere of a northern industrial town . |
| 3 | About 5,000 pink flamingos in western Kenya have died of a bacterial infection in recent weeks , which veterinarians say is a natural reaction to over-population . |
| 4 | THE daughter of porn king Paul Raymond has died of a suspected heart attack , less than a month after splitting from her husband . |
| 5 | Former Oxford United player , Tommy Caton , has died of a suspected heart attack at his home at Bampton in Oxfordshire . |
| 6 | All this had changed when she was thirteen and her five-year-old sister had died of a sudden illness . |
| 7 | John Coleridge , ‘ an Israelite without guile ’ , had probably died of a massive stroke , and a few days later was buried on the north side of the altar in the church he had served for twenty-one years . |
| 8 | Perhaps we might have a look at things , at this stage , through the eyes of young Benjamin Titford , the youngest surviving son , left motherless at nine years old ; waving his big brother William Charles goodbye as he set off for London soon afterwards ; watching brother John cough himself into an early grave ; listening to endless conversations about high prices , shortages , and a war across the channel ; dragged out of his bed in the middle of the night to cries of ‘ Fire ! ’ and ‘ Flood ! ’ ; struggling to keep warm every winter ; watching his father die of a long illness — these experiences made his childhood , in modern terms , an awful , albeit a dramatic one . |
| 9 | Moody thinks that ‘ the final stanza may allude to a variant of Ariadne 's tale , which has it that she did not die of a broken heart but was loved by Bacchus ’ . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , Monty 's beloved Betty died of a strange illness , just ten years later , leaving a distraught Monty with a son , David . |
| 11 | Carter 's first wife died of a strange accident on the farm where they both worked . |
| 12 | Hoffnung was only thirty-four when he died of a cerebral haemorrhage in Hampstead 28 September 1959 . |
| 13 | 1 patient died of a pulmonary embolism on day 4 . |
| 14 | A 72 year old woman died of a perforated colon 11 days after completing the trial , despite continuing prednisolone treatment . |
| 15 | Of course , he defied doctor 's orders , and in 1977 he died of a massive heart attack , aged sixty . |
| 16 | He died of a single gunshot wound to the left side of the head following the attack at the ancient tourist town of Parati . |
| 17 | A FORMER soldier and adventurer , shot by robbers in Brazil , died of a single bullet wound to the left side of his head , an inquest heard . |
| 18 | He recorded a verdict that Mr Crossthwaite died of a prescribed disease . |
| 19 | Forty nine patients with adenomatous polyps were recruited into this study , nine were not included in the final analysis ( five were lost to follow up , two were diagnosed with upper gastrointestinal cancer , one died of a myocardial infarction , and one patient in the Β -carotene group was not compliant ) . |
| 20 | ‘ They died of a broken heart . |
| 21 | Dr Edwin Latham suggested that Joseph ‘ died of a broken heart ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I do wonder if the King 's mad gallop through a storm-blown night finally unhinged his mind and so he caused the King 's death and later died of a broken heart ? |
| 24 | Daphne recalls how , early on , ‘ I made the mistake of allowing one to become too fond of me and , when I went away for two weeks , she died of a broken heart . |
| 25 | No one ever died of a broken heart . |
| 26 | All a waste of time for his daughter , poor Bloody Mary , lost it to the French and died of a broken heart . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought he died of a broken heart when the Russians bombed Long Bridge . ’ |
| 28 | It was about this time that their grandmother died of a sudden heart attack . |
| 29 | He died of a crushed chest , moments after crashing into a newsagent 's shop . |
| 30 | Enfield North Labour candidate Martin Upham , Chitra Viswanadha , died of a suspected heart attack yesterday morning . |