Example sentences of "had died [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1891 he published a Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the Incorporated Law Society , and in the following year , 1892 , published the first volume of his Modern English Biography , containing many thousand concise memoirs of people who had died since the year 1850 . |
| 2 | Tribute was paid to Wally Heath , a long-serving member of the committee who had died during the year . |
| 3 | Damien Gould had died during the night . |
| 4 | She had died during the night , and it seems that Maurice Haigh-Wood telephoned Carlyle Mansions very early in the morning ; John Hayward received the call , and then passed on the news to Eliot who , according to one friend , " buried his face in his hands , crying " Oh God ! |
| 5 | One of our baggage mules had died during the night and several others were sick . |
| 6 | was unable to savour his victory , however , as he had died during the course of the hearings ( is there a moral here somewhere ? ) |
| 7 | A SAIRI statement from Beirut on March 9 claimed that over 30,000 people had died during the uprising and that fighting was still raging throughout the south . |
| 8 | So many people had died during the siege either from wounds or illness that a considerable quantity of private stores had accumulated . |
| 9 | He had remained with the company until his eyesight began to fail in the early 1930s ; he had died during the war . |
| 10 | She looked for the other , older brother whom Henry had said had died during the war , Leonard was it ? |
| 11 | Relying on government figures , the report estimated that 14,000 civilians had died during the war while another 57,000 were wounded , 37,000 of whom were permanently disabled . |
| 12 | After several years , therefore , when the illness recurred , Margaret sent after Richard only to learn that he had died at the hour she was afflicted . |
| 13 | A government-commissioned study published on July 17 , 1990 , conceded that 1,500,000 people , 90 per cent of them Jewish , had died at Auschwitz ( Oswiecim ) concentration camp under Nazi rule , revising previous assessments that 4,000,000 people had died at the camp . |
| 14 | His reasons are unclear , though he did say that three out of the recently rescued ‘ Bangkok Six ’ orang-utans ( all weak and traumatised babies ) had died at the Tanjung Puting centre . |
| 15 | She said she was a widow , her husband , Malcolm , had died at the beginning of her pregnancy . |
| 16 | In September 1197 the Emperor Henry VI had died at the age of 32 , leaving an heir who was little more than a baby . |
| 17 | His older sister had died at the age of 6 months after an identical clinical course . |
| 18 | Rory , secretly , did not believe it , he held to his mother 's bitter view that Michael had been a feckless drunk , another feckless Irish drunk , who had died at the wheel of his car while returning from a bout of cross-border carousing in Dundalk . |
| 19 | The letter concerned the mother of the complainant who had died at the hospital , where she was a paying patient . |
| 20 | ‘ Ali Muhammad al-Akrami , al-Ajili Muhammad ‘ Abdul Rahman al-Ashari , ‘ Ali Muhammad al-Qajji , Salih Omar al-Qasbi , Muhammad al-Saadiq al-Tarhouni and ‘ Abdul Qadir Muhammad al-Ya'qubi are believed to be in Abu Salim Prison in Tripoli , although AI received reports that ‘ Abdul Qadir Muhammad al-Ya'qubi had died at the end of 1988 . |
| 21 | Thirty three of the 36 patients in the study had died at the end of the study period , 21 ( 87% ) in the chemotherapy group , and all 12 in the supportive care group . |
| 22 | In a speech on July 29 Aristide announced that all official papers would be written in both Creole and French and that all ministers and state and government employees had to be able to read and write Creole , " in memory of all the peasants who had died for the country 's sake " . |
| 23 | She told Princesse Mathilde that she wanted to find the son of her old friend Andrzej Potacki , yes , yes , the Andrzej who had died with the partisans after the war . |
| 24 | And as far as Greg could judge there were a great many writers who had found a place in the book who were quite as obscure or more so — poets whose flame had died with the end of the war , one-off playwrights whose experimental verse dramas had caused no more than a ripple of interest even in their own time . |
| 25 | I replied that I was convinced not only that she was now dead but that she had died on the day you wrote to me … |
| 26 | His famous Anglican brother had died on the eve of the Restoration . |
| 27 | He wondered how many people had died on the end of that rope . |
| 28 | A beggar had died on the corner of Threadneedle Street . |
| 29 | Edward I had died on the Solway Firth when about to lead another expedition against the Scots . |
| 30 | The unusual delay was because Nigel had died on the Thursday before a bank holiday weekend , but as soon as our GP had signed the death certificate he would be on his way . |