Example sentences of "died in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The funeral has taken place of a student who died in a mysterious barn fire nine months ago . |
| 2 | Marc died in a mysterious barn fire in Stroud almost nine months ago . |
| 3 | Does it matter whether he really died in a burning building or whether he only thinks he did ? |
| 4 | He died in a mental home at Dinsdale Park , Durham , 24 November 1858 . |
| 5 | A JETSKIER who died in a freak holiday accident was buried yesterday . |
| 6 | Then in June , Ivan died in a freak fire at his seafront nursing home . |
| 7 | A GIRL on an evening out died in a freak accident by just tripping over a kerb . |
| 8 | The fact that later on , when her house collapsed in flames , she herself died in a freak landslide in the Morpork Mountains , proves that Death , too , has a sense of humour . |
| 9 | She died in a drowning accident when I was four . ’ |
| 10 | Sally Ann Cattell died in a stolen car which crashed during a police chase last March , but the SSD denied reports that she had absconded from the children 's home , St John 's in Erdington , to which she had moved three days before the incident . |
| 11 | Nine civilians , including a boy of 11 , died in a horrific mortar attack by Serb forces yesterday . |
| 12 | Just over a year ago Brian Waites almost died in a horrific car crash . |
| 13 | The government said three soldiers were killed in a nearby village , and 41 guerrillas died in a retaliatory attack . |
| 14 | The Harpers had attended every day of the Bristol Crown Court trial to hear how the girls died in a late-night blaze in a hay-filled barn at Uckington , near Cheltenham , Glos . |
| 15 | Prince Charles has paid tribute to soldiers from the Gloucestershire Regiment who died in a fierce battle forty one years ago . |
| 16 | A WOMAN died in a two-car smash in County Durham yesterday . |
| 17 | AN RAF man told a court yesterday how he had fallen asleep at the wheel of a Land-Rover before his friend died in a head-on crash with a lorry on the A1 . |
| 18 | A RAILWAY safety inspector acknowledged yesterday that junctions like the one at Newton , near Motherwell , where four people died in a head-on train crash , were unlikely ever to be approved for use again . |
| 19 | The father-of-three was caught after four of the 800 workers who paid into the City Council Life Insurance Welfare Scheme died in a short space of time . |
| 20 | The 20-year-old , who had served in Northern Ireland and Germany , died in a tragic accident when a military order was misunderstood by a driver as Paul worked on the Saudi/Iraq front line with the 40th Field Armoured Brigade . |
| 21 | Exports of the bird have increased sharply in recent years ; last year it is estimated that 500 of the remaining 2,000 birds were exported from Indonesia , while 200 more died in an Indonesian export house . |
| 22 | Rebecca and Emma Harper , 17 , of Alexandra Street , Cheltenham , Gloucs , died in an early morning fire in a hay-filled Dutch barn on January 24 last year . |
| 23 | An inquest opened yesterday on two teenagers who died in an old quarry pond . |
| 24 | A FATHER and his nine-year-old son died in an avoidable tragedy while repairing a neighbour 's car . |
| 25 | The Prince arrived in the town on Thursday , the day when 12-year-old Tim Parry died in an intensive-care unit . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | There were fears that the army would take over after Gen Zia died in an unexplained air crash , but Gen Beg made it clear that he favoured holding the elections that brought Benazir Bhutto to power . |