Example sentences of "died of a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , Monty 's beloved Betty died of a strange illness , just ten years later , leaving a distraught Monty with a son , David . |
| 2 | Carter 's first wife died of a strange accident on the farm where they both worked . |
| 3 | Hoffnung was only thirty-four when he died of a cerebral haemorrhage in Hampstead 28 September 1959 . |
| 4 | 1 patient died of a pulmonary embolism on day 4 . |
| 5 | A 72 year old woman died of a perforated colon 11 days after completing the trial , despite continuing prednisolone treatment . |
| 6 | Of course , he defied doctor 's orders , and in 1977 he died of a massive heart attack , aged sixty . |
| 7 | He died of a single gunshot wound to the left side of the head following the attack at the ancient tourist town of Parati . |
| 8 | A FORMER soldier and adventurer , shot by robbers in Brazil , died of a single bullet wound to the left side of his head , an inquest heard . |
| 9 | He recorded a verdict that Mr Crossthwaite died of a prescribed disease . |
| 10 | Forty nine patients with adenomatous polyps were recruited into this study , nine were not included in the final analysis ( five were lost to follow up , two were diagnosed with upper gastrointestinal cancer , one died of a myocardial infarction , and one patient in the Β -carotene group was not compliant ) . |
| 11 | ‘ They died of a broken heart . |
| 12 | Dr Edwin Latham suggested that Joseph ‘ died of a broken heart ’ . |
| 13 | There is an even older version of the song , describing the fate of a young lady who died of a broken heart after being jilted by her lover . |
| 14 | I do wonder if the King 's mad gallop through a storm-blown night finally unhinged his mind and so he caused the King 's death and later died of a broken heart ? |
| 15 | Daphne recalls how , early on , ‘ I made the mistake of allowing one to become too fond of me and , when I went away for two weeks , she died of a broken heart . |
| 16 | No one ever died of a broken heart . |
| 17 | All a waste of time for his daughter , poor Bloody Mary , lost it to the French and died of a broken heart . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought he died of a broken heart when the Russians bombed Long Bridge . ’ |
| 19 | It was about this time that their grandmother died of a sudden heart attack . |
| 20 | He died of a crushed chest , moments after crashing into a newsagent 's shop . |
| 21 | Enfield North Labour candidate Martin Upham , Chitra Viswanadha , died of a suspected heart attack yesterday morning . |
| 22 | Finance Minister Gibson Chigaga died of a suspected heart attack after collapsing as he prepared to address a press conference at Lusaka airport on his return from Paris and London on March 25 . |
| 23 | Rev. John T. Walker , 64 , the first black Episcopal bishop of Washington , died of a cardiac arrest . |
| 24 | Nettlefold died of an apoplectic seizure , 22 November 1881 , at his Scottish home , Allean House , near Pitlochry , Perthshire . |
| 25 | Brian , of EMI Records , who worked with Cliff Richard , Kate Bush and Pink Floyd , died of an AIDS-related illness last Wednesday . |
| 26 | The Good God knows I would dismiss the matter as fanciful and accept that the Scottish King died of an accidental fall from his horse except for what I found , those little shreds clinging to a thorn bush on Kinghorn Ness crying out ‘ Murder ’ to the world . |
| 27 | Cleveland deputy coroner Ronald Smith said Arthur Goodhill , 78 , of Laburnum Road , Redcar , died of an industrial disease . |
| 28 | Cleveland deputy coroner Ronald Smith said Hayden Corner , 69 , of Woodhouse Road , Guisborough , died of an industrial disease . |
| 29 | A RETIRED French polisher died of an industrial disease more than 40 years after he was in contact with asbestos while refurbishing a Canadian liner , a Liverpool inquest was told . |
| 30 | In July 1990 British researchers investigating the origins of AIDS reported that tests on a man who died of an unexplained disease in 1959 showed that he had carried the HIV virus . |