Example sentences of "[noun] die of " in BNC.
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| 1 | NUT LAP ME Dying of laughing |
| 2 | A lover dying of smallpox — Miss Phoebe was scarred from it . |
| 3 | Now if there are changes , such as non-replacing teeth and non-dividing nerve cells , which make young animals more efficient , at the cost of condemning old animals to senescence , these changes will be favoured by natural selection , if only because most animals die of accidents anyway before they are old . |
| 4 | On no account could Lady Eleanor die of poisoning . |
| 5 | A horse died of a heart attack in one of the races at the Cheltenham meeting . |
| 6 | In 1947 again the winter closed in after Christmas , as often happens in the Dales , only this time haytime had been ruined by a terrible summer and , in spite of the RAF airlift of fodder , many thousands of animals died of starvation . |
| 7 | Erm , in September eighteen forty eight , Branwell died of T B aged thirty one . |
| 8 | Jacobo Arenas died of a heart attack on Aug. 10 at the age of 74 . |
| 9 | On 11 June , Mary of Guise died of dropsy . |
| 10 | Andrew of Moray died of wounds received during the battle , but Wallace went on to be proclaimed Guardian of Scotland , and was given the accolade of knighthood by dignitaries still claiming , like himself , to represent the absent Balliol . |
| 11 | McCurbin died of asphyxiation from pressure applied to the neck , but the police who arrested him said that they thought he was faking as he struggled for life . |
| 12 | When Eleanor died of fever at Nottingham , in the autumn of 1290 , Edward was grief stricken and journeyed to bury her in Westminster . |
| 13 | Diana Dors died of cancer in 1984 , aged 53 . |
| 14 | Wedgewood on German drinking habits : ‘ The Landgrave of Hesse founded a Temperance society but its first president died of drink ; Lewis of Württemberg , surnamed the pious , drank two challengers into stupor and , being himself still sober , had them sent home in a cart with a pig . |
| 15 | A romantic condition to die of . |
| 16 | She had been married to Nahum Morey for two years when the staid Mrs Deacon died of influenza . |
| 17 | Marmosets die of " mad cow " disease |
| 18 | The report describes how three out of four birds die of disease , crushing , overcrowding and starvation in transit . |
| 19 | It 's been revealed that a prostitute who was found murdered was responsible for an eight year old boy dying of a drugs overdose . |
| 20 | Celia perished trying to help some natives dying of pestilence . |
| 21 | If any of these poor beggars die of cold old Starling will have a hard time digging a hole for them . ’ |
| 22 | Have you any statistics to show what hackers die of ? |
| 23 | In such dreams servants would ease him into shoes studded with diamonds ; he would cock an ear to the whinny of his coach-horses , whose splendour would make England die of jealousy ; he would give oyster banquets , and have his dining-room surrounded by espaliers of flowering jasmine , out of which bright finches would swoop . |
| 24 | What did your parents die of ? |
| 25 | Not long ago we reported a case where a child died of fright caused by the approach of a Police officer in Uniform . |
| 26 | The child died of horrific multiple injuries before being left on a railway line where he was struck by a train , police said yesterday . |
| 27 | PAMELA : " Do n't wonder to see the paper so blotted for my good lady died of the illness I mentioned to you , and left us all much grieved for the loss of her . |
| 28 | His brood are five love bird chicks He took them on when their real parents died of exhaustion . |
| 29 | Ihich died of an asthma attack , his family alleging that police refused to give him medicine which they had brought to the police station . |
| 30 | This marriage was advantageous to him in that it introduced him into the local society but it was to last only three years , for in 1573 Jane died of smallpox at the age of 20 . |