Example sentences of "have die at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Olive Booth , lieutenant Colonel in the Salvation Army and a grand-daughter of its founder , has died at the age of 98 . |
| 2 | PAUL HENREID , the film actor and director , who has died at Santa Monica , California , aged 84 , made his name in Now Voyager ( 1942 ) and Casablanca ( 1943 ) , two of the most polished and popular weepies in the history of American cinema . |
| 3 | CHRISTIAN K NELSON , the confectioner and inventor , who has died at Laguna Hills , California , aged 99 , created the ‘ choc ice ’ — known in America as ‘ Eskimo Pie ’ — and later revolutionised the manufacture and storage of ice cream products . |
| 4 | Prof MANOLIS ANDRONIKOS , the Greek archaeologist who has died at Salonika aged 72 , made one of the great archaeological discoveries of the century when in 1977 he found the tomb of King Philip II of Macedon , the warrior father of Alexander the Great . |
| 5 | MOLLY PICON , the diminutive Jewish-American actress who has died at Lancaster , Pennsylvania , aged 93 , was the leading exponent of Yiddish drama during its golden age in New York in the early part of the century ; an outstanding performer on the international variety stage between the World Wars ; and a notable legitimate player on Broadway and in London in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 6 | ZULFIQAR ALI KHAN , who has died at New Delhi aged 59 , was the last uncrowned Nawab of the erstwhile state of Rampur , one of a handful of old Muslim kingdoms in northern India . |
| 7 | SAM WALTON , who has died at Little Rock , Arkansas , aged 74 , was the founder of Wal-Mart — America 's largest retail chain — and became his country 's richest citizen , with a net worth estimated at $18 billion . |
| 8 | Adrian Quist , twice Wimbledon doubles champion and three times winner of the singles at the Australian Open , has died at his home in Sydney from cancer , aged 78 . |
| 9 | Alexander Camaro , the Berlin artist , has died at the age of ninety-one . |
| 10 | OLIVIER MESSIAEN has died at the age of 83 . |
| 11 | The contralto Alfreda Hodgson has died at the age of 51 . |
| 12 | A kudu calf , one of a species of exotic antelope , has died at London Zoo after exhibiting the nervous and debilitating symptoms associated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ) or " mad cow " disease . |
| 13 | The ballet dancer , Rudolf Nureyev , has died at the age of fifty-four following a long illness . |
| 14 | The former Gloucestershire MP , Lord Ridley , has died at the age of sixty-four . |
| 15 | The former miners ' leader , Lord Gormley , has died at the age of seventy-five . |
| 16 | The actor , Robert Morley , has died at the age of eighty-four . |
| 17 | The comedian , Les Dawson , has died at the age of fifty-eight . |
| 18 | The man who first described the Gloucestershire Regiment as ’ The Glorious Glosters ’ has died at the age of eighty nine ( 89 ) . |
| 19 | The actor , Raymond Burr , star of TV 's Perry Mason and Ironside series , has died at the age of seventy-six . |
| 20 | A DARLINGTON man who worked in the same menswear shop all his adult life has died at the age of 73 . |
| 21 | The Dowager Lady Grimthorpe of Ampleforth has died at the age of 90 . |
| 22 | A former inspector in Durham police has died at the age of 77 . |
| 23 | ANTONY di Gesu , a photographer known for his portraits of celebrated people from Truman Capote to Irving Berlin , has died at La Jolla , California , aged 79 . |
| 24 | ANTHONY Bowles , the original musical director for Jesus Christ Superstar in London in 1971 and another Andrew Lloyd Webber hit musical , Evita , in 1978 , has died at his London home . |
| 25 | ALFRED McTEAR , the first Scot preparing to take a tobacco company to court blaming it for his lung cancer and claiming compensation , has died at his Ayrshire home . |
| 26 | A FORMER mayor has died at the age of 86 . |
| 27 | A commodity never difficult to find , in John-William 's experience , particularly now when the Chartist leaders , who had been locked up after the troubles of 1839 , were all out of prison again ; except for that Sheffield lad , of course , who 'd died at twenty-seven , from the hard labour he 'd been put to at Northallerton jail . |
| 28 | There had been rather a mystery as to why he should have died at that particular time . |
| 29 | The young stonemason had suffered terrible head injuries and but for the attentions of a passing doctor , would have died at the scene of the accident . |
| 30 | Of the six patients who underwent intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation and were discharged from hospital after transplantation two are alive , the four others having died at 10 weeks , 31 , 42 , and 61 months . |