Example sentences of "have died a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another ‘ Carry On ’ film — Carry on Regardless , which seemed to offer nothing new and might have died a death at the box office had it not had those magic first two words in the title which by now assured a box office hit . |
| 2 | A total of five extra crew were taken on board over the next three months , including a new master , Edward Barker ; he found a ship 's company of nine men — Robert Gray , the steward , having died a day after Robert Titford . |
| 3 | Last night we looked back at the history of the MG , which appeared to have died a death when the factory at Abingdon closed in 1981 . |
| 4 | The war ended in 1813 and as his father-in-law had died a year earlier , William was no longer required to manage the family affairs . |
| 5 | Da had died a year after the armistice , so they had n't needed to give Mam a pension . |
| 6 | He was an incredibly fit old man , whose wife had died a year ago . |
| 7 | And then she read , in a copy of The Stage that happened to be turned in her direction , a paragraph about him which made it clear that the wife whom he was talking about in this present tense had died a year ago , and that he had had a row of flops in London . |
| 8 | Vesa had been living in a small apartment in the Mids since their aunt had died a year back . |
| 9 | You , with a shrewd sense of your own advantage , realized that you were now liable to pay one hell of a lot of estate duty on your father 's gift to you because of his inconvenient death ; but that if he had died a fortnight later it would be six and not five years since the property was made over to you . |
| 10 | People would obviously conclude that I had died a coward . |
| 11 | Christianity was the justification of conquest and exploitation : Atahualpa had died a convert ; from the scaffold his nephew Tupac Amaru had denounced the religion of his ancestors as a fraud . |
| 12 | Thursday afternoon me and mum looked after Daniel and Benjamin , cos erm , a relative of Sarah 's died a week before and the funeral was Thursday , so , I said to mum yes I 'd go up and help her |