Example sentences of "had die [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the charter to Maryland sought by George Calvert passed the Great Seal on 20 June 1632 Cecil Calvert was named the grantee , since his father had died earlier in the year . |
| 2 | Arne Treholt , 49 , who had been sentenced in mid-1985 to 20 years ' imprisonment for espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Iraq [ see p. 34113 ] , was pardoned on July 3 on health grounds ; his second wife had died earlier in the year and he was reportedly suffering from depression . |
| 3 | There were minor disturbances in the Amman governorate on Aug. 18 during by-elections for the House of Representatives , called to replace two deputies who had died earlier in the year . |
| 4 | New Scientist , basing its report on information from well — placed anonymous sources , argued that British sailors had died needlessly in the Falklands because their ships were floating fire traps . |
| 5 | All the earlier amphibians from the late Carboniferous and the Permian had died out in the Triassic , including the cotylosaurs . |
| 6 | The de Warrenes had died out in the later middle ages , the priory was pulled down in 1538 , and with the disappearance of traditional authorities attention turned to the lesser but more numerous town houses of prosperous local merchants and the gentry who needed homes for the legal and social seasons . |
| 7 | My husband gave me the news that my father had died back in the village . |
| 8 | When her mother had died early in the war , Molly had smoothly taken over the running of the house and also the more difficult job of looking after Selwyn , the father she adored . |