Example sentences of "died [subord] i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four years later , in 1962 , Brian Jackson ( who died while I was writing this book ) and Dennis Marsden added their persuasive voices to the growing chorus of those who were aware of the weaknesses rather than the strengths of the grammar school . |
| 2 | ‘ My parents died when I was twelve . |
| 3 | My father died when I was fifteen . |
| 4 | Uncle Bill had looked after my grandmother until she died when I was a baby . |
| 5 | My father died when I was five , and left me a large sum of money in trust until my twenty-fifth birthday . |
| 6 | ‘ My mother died when I was born , and he died shortly after . |
| 7 | My mother died when I was two . |
| 8 | As far as I 'm concerned , my old man died when I was 12 [ his age when his father left home ] . |
| 9 | My parents died when I was twenty , my sister moved up to Lancashire and became a nurse and got married , and that was the family gone . |
| 10 | He died when I was fourteen . |
| 11 | So , instead of leaving it idle , I sold the machine and donated the money to a charity for the disabled , as I had a mentally disabled sister who died when I was 13 . |
| 12 | My father died when I was only two . |
| 13 | My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years . |
| 14 | Er , mine died when I was nine and my mother has been my mother and a father to both myself my brother and sister and I feel she 's done just as good a job as I could of as my father could have done . |
| 15 | ‘ She died when I was born , ’ he said softly . |
| 16 | ‘ My parents died when I was a baby , you know , and for the last three years I 've had to work for my food . |
| 17 | ‘ My mother died when I was very small , in transit to the colony on Mantikroz . |
| 18 | My father died when I was one week old , so I was the Queen of Scots when I was a baby . |
| 19 | She died when I was born , so he almost hates me , I think . ’ |
| 20 | My mother was Irish ; she died when I was seven , but I remember her very well . |
| 21 | Dr Stainer died when I was fourteen-and-a half and for the next eighteen months I attended one of the LCC Day schools . |
| 22 | They all died when I was nine . ’ |
| 23 | I 've always been poor — my husband died when I was 34 — and this man 's very well-off . |
| 24 | She died when I was fifteen . ’ |
| 25 | My mother died when I was fifteen , but I was brought up by a series of incompetent governesses and I saw little of either parent . |
| 26 | ‘ My parents died when I was a teenager , you see . |
| 27 | ‘ My mother died when I was ten , ’ she answered Tom Russell carefully . |
| 28 | ‘ My mum died when I was four . |
| 29 | ‘ My mother died when I was little more than a child , ’ he informed her quietly . |
| 30 | ‘ My father died when I was twenty , ’ Travis responded , but his voice seemed distant , as if he was forcing it . |