Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] die [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
| 2 | Two weeks after Terry was born , my Mum died of cancer . |
| 3 | I had a very hard childhood , and my mum died of overwork . |
| 4 | And there 's nowhere to be alone , except my bedroom , and if I try to write there my fingers die with the cold . |
| 5 | " My husband died at Peterloo for that , my lad . |
| 6 | ‘ My husband died in the war — not the last war , the first world war . |
| 7 | Then my husband died in July at the age of 82 . |
| 8 | My er , circumstances are entirely different , I am the person who 's being cared for and my husband died in nineteen eighty seven , and my son in nineteen eighty eight and I was left with my young son , and he looked after me on his own , and then my daughter who li , I was living in Ireland , my daughter lived in England , and she decided it was n't good enough that it should all be left to him , so we had a long talk and we discussed it at length for two weeks at Christmas , and then they all moved Sou , over here , we got a house in Scotland , and I 'm looked after by my young son and my daughter , and since then a year ago my daughter got married , her husband moved in and he looks after me as well , so I 'm looked after by three young adults . |
| 9 | ‘ My husband died in a plane crash last year , so we 've come back to live in England . ’ |
| 10 | I saw my husband die in front of my eyes . |
| 11 | My husband dies in a car crash with his mistress and you think I can forget about it ? ’ |
| 12 | I was taken into the , my wife died in January of nineteen eighty nine , I was taken into the local psychiatric hospital at in the December of nineteen eighty nine and I was told I was gon na be given an experimental drug , I was told nothing about it or any anything to do with any of the side effects , I I was in th I was on Prozac for about four days , I suffered horrendous side effects , shaking and one thing and another . |
| 13 | Jessica said : ‘ I always feared it because my father died of cancer . ’ |
| 14 | My father died of a heart attack some years ago . |
| 15 | Yeah well , I mean we all My father died of a heart attack . |
| 16 | Were n't , although erm I was told that my father died of that so that er , I should do you mind |
| 17 | In 1963 my father died at the age of sixty-one , four years short of his pensionable age . |
| 18 | As far as I know , no one else in the Dale caught it — except my Uncle Tommy , my father 's brother who had come to run the farm for us when my father died at such a tragically early age . |
| 19 | My father died among old sewing machines , |
| 20 | She told me my father died in the camp in 1944 . |
| 21 | MY father died in 1979 , aged 76 . |
| 22 | My father died in his sleep on the morning of July 4th , 1934 at the age of 67 . |
| 23 | The pity of it was , not long after my father died in 1933 things improved quite a lot in the material sense . |
| 24 | My father died in 1927 , when I was seven , but Mother carried on making cheese until around 1940 . |
| 25 | ‘ My father died in 1977 . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm also an only child and my mother , who 's very English , also went home to her own folk after my father died in South Africa . ’ |
| 27 | My father died in nineteen forty six and my mother died in nineteen fifty seven . |
| 28 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 29 | But my father died from cancer following a ‘ successful ’ operation in 1936 and my mother died in 1963 after another . |
| 30 | Three of my people died on the way ’ . |