Example sentences of "had die in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one then took Denmark and the other England , as their father had died in the meantime . |
| 2 | In the middle of May the Eliots went to Leeds to stay with Valerie Eliot 's mother — her father had died in the year of her marriage . |
| 3 | Mrs Edwards was told her son had died in the service of humanity . |
| 4 | The house surgeon received £3.3s.0d. for attending a coroner 's inquest on a patient who had died in the infirmary , and Samuel Whitbread , in his capacity as magistrate , exacted contributions from time to time : in August 1813 , for example , the infirmary funds benefited by £10 which had been received from John Schoner and William Edwards ‘ paid in atonement to stay of prosecution for disturbing the Methodist meeting at Biggleswade during Divine Service ’ . |
| 5 | In November 1872 , the Board received an application from Cambridge Medical School for the bodies of paupers who had died in the workhouse , and were without funds or relations , to be sent there for the study of anatomy . |
| 6 | ‘ Would that we had died in the land of Egypt ! ’ |
| 7 | Jaelani told Suharto that up to 50 people had died in the cemetery and a further 91 had been injured . |
| 8 | Preserving a balance throughout that had not been conspicuous in other media surveys of the Lockerbie investigation , Barron 's concluded its article with a statement from Paul Hudson , a lawyer from Albany , New York , whose sixteen-year-old daughter had died in the crash . |
| 9 | Miss Alicia Lockwood had died in the night , quietly and painlessly in her sleep . |
| 10 | There were people there whose parents , brothers , sisters , husbands — loved ones — had died in the course of the last year . |
| 11 | Relief workers reported in early August that since the beginning of the year thousands of Ethiopians had died in the Ogaden region and in the refugee camps of Gode , Kelafo and Dolo in the south-east . |
| 12 | On either side of his own silver plate , like some massive array of bone cutlery , were ranged the amputated hands of those who had died in the campaign , shorn of flesh and muscle and tendons . |
| 13 | Between 1914 and 1918 almost 900,000 British Empire soldiers had died in the trenches , most of them from the working class . |
| 14 | According to a Paris-based opposition group , the Madagascar Committee for Democracy and Development , " about 50 people " had died in the incident . |
| 15 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Oct. 11 reported that only two people had died in the demonstrations , both in southern Bhutan on Sept. 23 . |
| 16 | The ultimate clue to Ecgfrith 's regnal chronology , however , is the documentary report of the council of Hatfield which Bede includes in the Ecclesiastical History ( IV , 17 ) and which demonstrates , by reference to Ecgfrith in his tenth year on 17 September in a year which can only be 680 ( see below , p.113 ) , that Ecgfrith certainly succeeded no earlier than 17 September 670 — which introduces an even longer interregnum if Oswiu had died in the February of that year and makes his death in February 671 more likely still . |
| 17 | Her brother had died in the wreck of Flight 103 . |
| 18 | By the end of July up to 180 people had died in the clashes and over 500 were wounded . |
| 19 | And one person had died in the process relating the appeal . |
| 20 | He had died in the spring . |
| 21 | The Rectory children were being confined with difficulty in the pew beneath a brass plate Alexandra could not read without a pang , commemorating a young man who had died in the Charge of the Light Brigade , nearly sixty years ago , when he was only 22 , her own age . |
| 22 | Too many good people had died in the war , had suffered in one way or another . |
| 23 | I thought she meant her sons had died in the war and I made sympathetic noises . |
| 24 | The spokesman said that 10 NPFL fighters had died in the Vahun incident , and that all bodies had been buried , but it was reported the same day that Taylor had ordered that the bodies should be exhumed . |
| 25 | It claimed that very few of those who had died in the violence had been killed by traditional weapons , that 75 per cent of deaths were caused by bullets and 20 per cent by hacking with weapons which could not be described as traditional . |
| 26 | On May 15 it was reported that 201 people had died in the violence during the month so far . |
| 27 | Eleven who had been working near the point of irruption had died in the torrent of stinking , clinging , liquid peat . |
| 28 | By then she could just about face up to the knowledge she had been trying to resist since February 1944 ; that every last member of her family had died in the concentration camps . |
| 29 | There were still plenty , although some had not survived the Nazis ' ferocity and others had died in the orgy of vengeance that had been unleashed after the liberation . |
| 30 | By the end of the month about 70 people had died in the unrest , mainly by police gunfire and self-immolation . |