Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] had died [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raphael ( 1982 ) provides qualitative descriptions of the experiences of thirty-five children aged between two and eight years in twenty families in which either the mother or father had died in the previous two to eight weeks . |
| 2 | At 8am , the hospital formally announced that Conor had died of a heart attack . |
| 3 | And this was n't an Anglican church , erm it was a Baptist church , and when I was seven I understood that Jesus had died for me and then I asked him into my heart and when I was twelve I was baptized , which is the equivalent really of being confirmed . |
| 4 | After fifteen years she had come to assume that Daniel had died in Auschwitz . |
| 5 | How did she know that people had died on the Bridge ? he wondered . |
| 6 | The official Soviet version of events was provided in 1957 by Andrei Gromyko , then Deputy Foreign Minister , who claimed that Wallenberg had died of a heart attack in prison in 1947 , a date conveniently set before the end of the Stalin era . |
| 7 | ( Amnesty also returned to an issue covered in its December 1990 report on abuses under the Iraqi occupation — see p. 37927 — saying that there was in fact no reliable evidence to support the claim that babies had died as a result of being removed from incubators by Iraqi troops . ) |
| 8 | That was the end of the entry , but I was able to discover that Luiza had died in the municipal hospital of Bom Jesus and was buried in a pauper 's coffin in an unmarked grave wrapped only in a hospital sheet . |
| 9 | The ultimate clue to Ecgfrith 's regnal chronology , however , is the documentary report of the council of Hatfield which Bede includes in the Ecclesiastical History ( IV , 17 ) and which demonstrates , by reference to Ecgfrith in his tenth year on 17 September in a year which can only be 680 ( see below , p.113 ) , that Ecgfrith certainly succeeded no earlier than 17 September 670 — which introduces an even longer interregnum if Oswiu had died in the February of that year and makes his death in February 671 more likely still . |
| 10 | Several hundred thousand Spaniards and non-Spaniards had died on the battlefields of Spain between 1936 and 1939 ; at least 200,000 more were to be executed during the next few years , 2,000,000 would suffer imprisonment or forced labour , and millions more again faced a lifetime of discrimination for having fought on behalf of the Republic . |
| 11 | Using data supplied by local police forces and government ministries , the report stated that ( i ) 4,611 children and adolescents had died from violence over the previous three years , more than 50 per cent of them shot and the rest killed by stabbing , beating , poisoning or strangling ; ( ii ) young girls were raped and many had died from clandestine abortions after becoming prostitutes ; ( iii ) children were exploited from the age of three by professional beggars , from the age of six by drug traffickers and , if they survived , ended up in armed groups used by criminal gangs and even the police ; ( iv ) the abuse of drugs and solvents was common among street children ; ( v ) an estimated 3,000 children were illegally adopted annually by foreigners , 50 per cent going to Italy and 30 per cent to France , who paid up to US$20,000 for a white child ; and ( vi ) 25,000,000 out of 45,000,000 children were chronically underfed , 30 per cent lived in poverty and 10,000 were child workers . |
| 12 | There were still plenty , although some had not survived the Nazis ' ferocity and others had died in the orgy of vengeance that had been unleashed after the liberation . |
| 13 | MOTHER Jenny Weightman returned from shopping yesterday to find her parents and son had died in a fire . |
| 14 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 15 | The unusual delay was because Nigel had died on the Thursday before a bank holiday weekend , but as soon as our GP had signed the death certificate he would be on his way . |
| 16 | However , this ambitious project was taken no further because Fairchild had died in 1727 , Miller was becoming preoccupied with his own writing and , after some dissension , the Society was disbanded . |
| 17 | After disaster at Dongkhe , and the horrors of the Cocxa gorge , the French fortresses at Caobang , Langson and Laokay were abandoned but , in their retreat , the French had lost 6,000 men in what has been called their greatest colonial defeat since Montcalm had died at Quebec . |
| 18 | Whereas Montaine had died for her inadequacies , Jean-Claude was destined to persist because of his . |
| 19 | His view of the visible church , for example , was much wider than that of even Whitgift , as he appeared to argue that since Christ had died for all , all men and women — including Roman Catholics — were potentially part of the visible church , and as such should be offered the sacrament of the eucharist , if they were prepared to receive it in good faith . |
| 20 | Some names had been crossed off , as teachers had died at their posts , or departed to more luxuriant scholastic pastures . |