Example sentences of "who [verb] died [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the relatives are able to go to the mortuary or viewing room and be with the person who has died for as long as they feel it to be necessary , then they are more able to start absorbing the fact of their loved one 's death , because again they have the evidence in front of them . |
| 2 | HARRY NEUBAUER , who has died aged 59 , was a psychiatrist of multifarious qualities — not least an exuberant personality which lent his earnest profession a splash of much-needed colour . |
| 3 | ROBERTO RIDOLFI , the Italian gentleman-scholar who has died aged 92 , represented the continuity of Florence as an historian of the Florentine Renaissance . |
| 4 | RIXI MARKUS , who has died aged 81 , was the first woman in the world to become a bridge grandmaster , and with the late Fritzi Gordon made up the most formidable women 's bridge partnership in the world . |
| 5 | COLONEL FRANK MORGAN , who has died aged 99 , served with the Imperial Camel Corps in the campaigns against the Turks in the First World War , and with the Royal Corps of Signals in the Second . |
| 6 | SIR JOSEPH BURKE , who has died aged 78 , was Professor of Fine Arts at Melbourne University for more than three decades , before which he had been a member of Attlee 's secretariat at 10 Downing Street . |
| 7 | BILL SMITH , who has died aged 68 , was the first man in Britain to adopt aggressive American-style methods in retailing remaindered books . |
| 8 | MAJOR-GENERAL Michael Skinner , who has died aged 60 , was Director General , Weapons , from 1986 to 1988 , when many important decisions were taken on the future equipment of the Army . |
| 9 | REAR-ADMIRAL GARTH WATSON , who has died aged 78 , had three distinguished careers : as an Admiralty engineer ; as one of the first officers of the newly formed Naval Electrical Branch ; and as an outstanding secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers . |
| 10 | BRIAN SHAW , the former leading male virtuoso dancer in the Royal Ballet , who has died aged 63 , was a meticulous and suave performer , never more so than as the male partner in the Bluebird pas de deux in Sleeping Beauty . |
| 11 | ANTONIS TRITSIS , the Mayor of Athens who has died aged 55 , was an extravagant figure even by the colourful standards of contemporary Greek politics . |
| 12 | BRIG JACK WINCHESTER , who has died aged 80 , had an active military career , which ranged from battles on the North West Frontier and campaigns in the Middle East to Arnhem in 1944 , when he won a Military Cross . |
| 13 | SHOOTING : Major Peter Freeman , who has died aged 75 , was a former chairman of the British Pistol Club , a shooting council and executive committee member and later a vice-president of the National Smallbore Rifle Association . |
| 14 | PROFESSOR GEOFFREY GILES , a leading transplant surgeon , who has died aged 55 , was Professor of Surgery at the University of Leeds and Head of the Department of Surgery at St James 's Hospital , Leeds . |
| 15 | FRANK ROBERTS , who has died aged 76 , was a self-taught electronics engineer whose television microscope revolutionised methods of counting and measuring cells . |
| 16 | SIR PETER HAYMAN , who has died aged 77 , had an eminent career in the Diplomatic Service , which culminated in his appointment as High Commissioner in Canada from 1970 to 1974 ; but after his retirement , and years of blandly shepherding the press at news conferences in various parts of the world , Hayman fell into dark disgrace and himself became their quarry . |
| 17 | BRIGADIER PAUL ‘ HOPPY ’ HOPKINSON , who has died aged 85 , commanded the only Indian Parachute Battalion ( 152 ) which in March 1944 bore the brunt of the Japanese assault east from the River Chindwin . |
| 18 | RONALD EYRE , who has died aged 62 , was an accomplished stage , television and opera director , though he was probably best known for his investigation of religious themes . |
| 19 | ROGER MANLEY , the doctor and engineer who has died aged 61 , was the inventor of the Manley Ventilator as well as several other pieces of life-saving equipment . |
| 20 | LEONARD CUTTS , the publisher who has died aged 87 , was the first editor of Hodder and Stoughton 's Teach Yourself series . |
| 21 | THE RT REV CHARLES Renfrew , who has died aged 62 , maintained an active ministry almost to the end of his life , despite being a kidney dialysis patient . |
| 22 | UNITY HALL , who has died aged 63 , worked for a number of popular newspapers before finding a niche as the agony aunt of the News of the World . |
| 23 | AIR VICE-MARSHAL Geoffrey Thomas , who has died aged 76 , served the RAF with distinction as a supply , equipment and movements specialist . |
| 24 | DR PETER MITCHELL , the biochemist who has died aged 71 , won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1978 for his achievement in explaining the chemical processes by which living cells generate energy from food . |
| 25 | STUART SURRIDGE , who has died aged 74 , was celebrated both as a manufacturer of cricket bats and equipment , and above all as a uniquely successful captain of Surrey County Cricket Club . |
| 26 | SIR RAGHAVAN PILLAI , the eminent Indian civil servant , who has died aged 93 , achieved the distinction of holding positions at the highest levels both during the Raj and after Independence . |
| 27 | Cyril Ibbotson , who has died aged 78 , served Derbyshire golf for many years . |
| 28 | GERALD ANNESLEY , one of Ulster 's most colourful landowners who has died aged 86 , caused a mild sensation in the general election of 1951 when , although a former chairman of the local Unionist party , he stood as a Protestant Irish Nationalist candidate for South Down . |
| 29 | DANIELE BOVET , who has died aged 85 , won a Nobel Prize in 1957 for his part in developing anti-histamines , and in adapting the poison curare to more beneficent purpose . |
| 30 | WIM VAN LEER , who has died aged 78 , was many things in his time — jazz-musician , pilot , cattle-rancher , industrialist , author , journalist , impresario , dramatist , film-maker and explorer — most of them with success , all of them with aplomb . |