Example sentences of "just died " in BNC.

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1 The author was an Englishman , Dr Farrar , who had just died from typhus .
2 Margaret Lockwood plays a nurse who , on the eve of a bank holiday , has to console a man whose wife has just died in childbirth .
3 Nigel pretended a relative had just died and managed to get out of most of the remaining classes of the term .
4 The specimen shown has both its original valves preserved , and looks today much as it did when it had just died .
5 Lord Eversley , whose wife had just died , did not attend at all .
6 ‘ They must have found it , because it was gone the day after — probably straight into the oven because it was obvious it had been killed , not just died But to this day they do n't know how . ’
7 Elinor [ sic ] Roosevelt had just died and I said how beautiful I thought the message Adlai Stevenson gave to the world .
8 There 's an apocryphal story about former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt , that his opening gambit in chit-chat was often ‘ My grandmother 's just died . ’
9 One parent was told by a consultant , ‘ We all have to go sometime , ’ after her 16-year-old son had just died of leukaemia .
10 ‘ His mother 's just died .
11 Besides , if his mother 's just died , he 's probably feeling a bit low . ’
12 The loan had been to buy the second-hand Sierra , and then had been topped up to cover repairs required by the M.O.T. ; and then increased again when Sara 's Mini had just died on her , expired in the middle of the village with 110,000 miles on the tombstone .
13 The Bruce claimant to the throne had just died , but his son and grandson were determined to assert family rights , even if it meant offering their services to Edward I for as long as it might take to drive the Comyns from the seized lands in Annandale .
14 It led Churchill , twelve years later , when Baldwin had just died , to publish , in the first volume of his Second World War , one of the most polemical and therefore famous of all footnote references .
15 Her husband ( and his old friend ) McKnight Kauffer , had just died and Eliot speculated about the question of " what might have been " in anyone 's life — that crucial moment when a life is changed .
16 If it is extremely fortunate , it may become a double-suckler by finding a female whose pup has just died and who is still producing milk .
17 The guy 's just died , so we must update it . ’
18 She needed someone to take care of her all the time , and luckily old Mrs Wopsle had just died , so Biddy came to live with us .
19 ‘ I 've been looking after my aunt , sir , who 's just died . ’
20 ‘ I think one of your servants has just died .
21 In Mary 's house it was Kamala who had just died .
22 ‘ You 've heard of Marius Steen , bloke who 's just died ? ’
23 He 's just died , he has er he was head man of the lot of 'em .
24 He had told a worried Miss Mates that his patient had just died having her twelfth child .
25 To get a replacement kidney , patients must either find somebody willing to part with one of their 's or get one transplanted from a donor who has just died .
26 Lord ro Lady 's just died and sold her place here .
27 Then they told me that its companion had just died — it was older — so I rather think it was depressed and lonely .
28 Oh yes they made it Miss has just died erm then coming down there was the Post Office with old Pa and the , then the Miss , they used to keep the Post Office , then there was er well there was a gents outfitters and then there was a beautiful shop I always used to think , it was called , another , but it was confectioners , but it was all most delightful old oldy-worldy sort of shop and my mother often used to go in there then you 'd
29 My brain 's just died !
30 Boys , when we next see Gywneth will you be nice and quiet and kind to her , her Mummy 's just died ?
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