Example sentences of "[verb] just died " in BNC.
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| 1 | Margaret Lockwood plays a nurse who , on the eve of a bank holiday , has to console a man whose wife has just died in childbirth . |
| 2 | If it is extremely fortunate , it may become a double-suckler by finding a female whose pup has just died and who is still producing milk . |
| 3 | ‘ I think one of your servants has just died . |
| 4 | To get a replacement kidney , patients must either find somebody willing to part with one of their 's or get one transplanted from a donor who has just died . |
| 5 | Oh yes they made it Miss has just died erm then coming down there was the Post Office with old Pa and the , then the Miss , they used to keep the Post Office , then there was er well there was a gents outfitters and then there was a beautiful shop I always used to think , it was called , another , but it was confectioners , but it was all most delightful old oldy-worldy sort of shop and my mother often used to go in there then you 'd |
| 6 | and somebody comes in , Aunt Maud has just died , what do I do ? |
| 7 | The author was an Englishman , Dr Farrar , who had just died from typhus . |
| 8 | Nigel pretended a relative had just died and managed to get out of most of the remaining classes of the term . |
| 9 | The specimen shown has both its original valves preserved , and looks today much as it did when it had just died . |
| 10 | Lord Eversley , whose wife had just died , did not attend at all . |
| 11 | Elinor [ sic ] Roosevelt had just died and I said how beautiful I thought the message Adlai Stevenson gave to the world . |
| 12 | One parent was told by a consultant , ‘ We all have to go sometime , ’ after her 16-year-old son had just died of leukaemia . |
| 13 | The loan had been to buy the second-hand Sierra , and then had been topped up to cover repairs required by the M.O.T. ; and then increased again when Sara 's Mini had just died on her , expired in the middle of the village with 110,000 miles on the tombstone . |
| 14 | The Bruce claimant to the throne had just died , but his son and grandson were determined to assert family rights , even if it meant offering their services to Edward I for as long as it might take to drive the Comyns from the seized lands in Annandale . |
| 15 | It led Churchill , twelve years later , when Baldwin had just died , to publish , in the first volume of his Second World War , one of the most polemical and therefore famous of all footnote references . |
| 16 | Her husband ( and his old friend ) McKnight Kauffer , had just died and Eliot speculated about the question of " what might have been " in anyone 's life — that crucial moment when a life is changed . |
| 17 | She needed someone to take care of her all the time , and luckily old Mrs Wopsle had just died , so Biddy came to live with us . |
| 18 | In Mary 's house it was Kamala who had just died . |
| 19 | He had told a worried Miss Mates that his patient had just died having her twelfth child . |
| 20 | Then they told me that its companion had just died — it was older — so I rather think it was depressed and lonely . |
| 21 | There 's an apocryphal story about former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt , that his opening gambit in chit-chat was often ‘ My grandmother 's just died . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ His mother 's just died . |
| 23 | Besides , if his mother 's just died , he 's probably feeling a bit low . ’ |
| 24 | The guy 's just died , so we must update it . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been looking after my aunt , sir , who 's just died . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You 've heard of Marius Steen , bloke who 's just died ? ’ |
| 27 | He 's just died , he has er he was head man of the lot of 'em . |
| 28 | Lord ro Lady 's just died and sold her place here . |
| 29 | My brain 's just died ! |
| 30 | Boys , when we next see Gywneth will you be nice and quiet and kind to her , her Mummy 's just died ? |