Example sentences of "[adv] died of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also recorded that in the early 18th century ‘ Edwin Calvert , gentleman , apparently died of alcohol poisoning at the age of 17 ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Or else it just died of old age and the owners dumped it . |
| 3 | When he finally died of alcoholism , she returned to the only job she knew , dancing . |
| 4 | SHOWBIZ tailor Tommy Nutter , 49 , whose customers included stars like Elton John and Michael Jackson , yesterday died of AIDS . |
| 5 | Six months after the sisters arrived in England , Miss Harder died of consumption . |
| 6 | The rate is increasing with time ( 1 in 900 in the UK in 1903 against 1 in 400 in 1973 ) ; but this may be an artefact of more accurate recording of the cause of death — before the arrival of modern terminal care , people usually died of pneumonia . |
| 7 | The colonel promptly died of ’ food poisoning ’ , and other officers took over his trade . |
| 8 | No one ever died of a broken heart . |
| 9 | I also heard that my parents both died of an illness only a year after their wedding . |
| 10 | What the evidence does show is that he was genuinely fond of his new wife and that she probably died of a heart attack . |
| 11 | Next moment , he nearly died of fright . |
| 12 | Two years ago , she nearly died of pneumonia and a blood disorder . |
| 13 | I nearly died of blushin' all over . ’ |
| 14 | I was not ill , but nearly died of my own neglect , I believe the medical profession and the National Health Service share some of the blame . |
| 15 | That night , in their tents , they nearly died of cold . |
| 16 | I do wonder if the King 's mad gallop through a storm-blown night finally unhinged his mind and so he caused the King 's death and later died of a broken heart ? |
| 17 | It shows a street child who was beaten by four Guatemalan police officers in 1990 and later died of his injuries . |
| 18 | When the Prince 's devoted valet , Stephen Barry , who later died of AIDS , resigned the blame was laid at Diana 's door . |
| 19 | His first wife , who later died of cancer , was also a reconciling person . |
| 20 | A man who gave the drug LSD to a teenager who later died of an overdose has been sent to a young offenders ' institution for three years . |
| 21 | He deals with subjects like safe sex , and some of his decors are by Keith Haring , who also died of AIDS . |
| 22 | Bucephalus eventually died of wounds at thirty years of age , in 326 BC , following Alexander 's war with the Indian king , Porus . |
| 23 | All of them eventually died of cardiac failure without the return to normal bowel function . |
| 24 | The patient described by Boustany et al had a cytochrome c oxidase deficiency and a long illness before she eventually died of peritonitis . |
| 25 | When Mother got caught again , for the umpteenth time , rather than risk Father 's mounting wrath , she gave the line a couple of vicious tugs , hoping he would not notice ; and almost died of fright when an outraged salmon leapt from the water and made off upstream like a rocket . |
| 26 | I almost died of fear. ? 1975 : I Get The Sweetest Feeling , by Jackie Wilson . |
| 27 | I swallowed it in one gulp and almost died of coughing . |
| 28 | When he was seven the boy almost died of typhoid . |
| 29 | When on Monday before Christmas 1991 I stepped on the scales and found that I 'd done it , I almost died of happiness . |
| 30 | ‘ And thus he continued ’ , writes Baxter , ‘ raging against me about a year , and then died of a fever in horror of conscience . ’ |