Example sentences of "[modal v] die of [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll die of depression in that bug-run … " |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll die of thirst after all that effort . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I used to think I 'd die of cholera on the spot . ’ |
| 4 | More recently there have been letters and articles predicting a world population of 15 billion , but no account has been taken of the fact that between 10 and 25 per cent could die of AIDS in the next twenty years , as is already happening in parts of Africa . |
| 5 | It predicted that at least 3,000,000 women and children would die of AIDS in the 1990s , and that AIDS would become the leading cause of death among young women and even among the worldwide population as a whole . |
| 6 | There was another roar of laughter when the old lady , her voice changing , said , ‘ All right , I will behave , not because you tell me to but because our dear Henry here will die of shock in a moment . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Go home , dear girl , you will die of heat on your bicycle , ’ the women under the arcades would say to me in their strange Parmigiano dialect ( which I soon learned to understand but never to speak ) as I rode past . |