I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a custom dies out/disappears (= gradually stops being done )
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Sometimes the streets are decorated with flower petals, although this custom is dying out.
a dying breed (= not many exist anymore )
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Real cowboys are a dying breed .
a fire dies down (= it burns less strongly )
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The fire slowly died down.
a flame dies down (= burns less strongly )
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By evening, the flames had gradually died down.
a sound dies away (= stops gradually )
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I listened until the sound had died away completely.
die casting
die in exile
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He never returned to his own country, but died in exile.
die in poverty
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His art was not appreciated and he died in poverty.
die of shock informal (= be very surprised )
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I nearly died of shock when I saw Helen at the door.
die of/from hunger
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Thousands of people are dying from hunger every day.
die of/from natural causes (= die of illness, old age etc, not because of an accident or crime )
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He died from natural causes, believed to be a heart attack.
died of cancer
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He died of cancer last month.
died of thirst
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Many of the animals had died of thirst .
sb’s last/final/dying wish
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Her last wish was to be buried in her husband’s grave.
the dead and injured/wounded/dying
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Most of the dead and injured had been passengers on the bus.
the excitement dies down (= people stop feeling excited )
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The excitement after last month's elections is beginning to die down.
the laughter dies (down) (= stops )
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The laughter died instantly as Robert walked in.
the wind drops/dies down (= becomes less strong )
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The wind had dropped a little.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
away
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The excitement died away and the crowd began to drift off down the side streets.
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And now the uproar that he had finally raised was dying away , and a gratifying silence was descending once again.
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Air pumped in as the warning sirens died away .
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The wind died away completely, and we were left motionless as the fog rolled in.
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Fenn froze, shoulders hunched, until the reverberations died away .
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The tumult died away , and presently Moon-Watcher could hear the sound of a body being dragged over rocks.
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You can see that the flames are dying away .
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The baying of the crowds died away .
down
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We waited another half hour behind a pile of sand for the shooting to die down .
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Down died 7 October 1896 at Normansfield.
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All this violence died down in the eighteenth century, and sometimes earlier.
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After about half an hour, the shooting died down and some one helped me inside the Cathedral.
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As the flames died down he felt cold air on his face.
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But as the rush died down it became apparent that her resolute determination would not be needed.
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The chatter and laughter died down .
hard
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The old reactions died hard , if they would ever perish at all.
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But old habits die hard , and Apple has shown a proclivity to chase market share while hand-wringing over shrinking gross margins.
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However hard parents try to inculcate a sense of responsibility in their children, the habits of childhood die hard.
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But habits die hard , even from one generation to the next.
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You see, old Shallot has many enemies and memories die hard .
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But, then as now, hope for a new era dies hard .
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Perhaps because it's an island old customs die hard here.
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Tradition dies hard in the Hebrides and to be one of the guga hunters was considered a great privilege in Hess.
nearly
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I've nearly died several times, and my back's never been strong.
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He got back in the car even though his father Bobby nearly died on a track.
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I nearly died too - I was so angry and tired and ill.
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I remembered how I had nearly died that night when Shoshana had sent us to the private clinic to guard a corpse.
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The old man had put his hands around Berry's neck until he nearly died .
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You nearly died , and you might not be so lucky next time.
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I nearly died when I saw them.
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In 1998, he was hospitalized twice for it and said later he nearly died that fall.
rather
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Clough's team decided they'd rather die than swallow such medicine.
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She steadfastly affirmed her faith and chose to die rather than renounce it.
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He would rather die now than carry on under these circumstances.
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But he died rather young, leaving his widow to carry on the farm and bring up their three children.
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The human psyche is so pathetically insecure that we would rather die of lung cancer than confront an uncomfortable situation.
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I'd rather die than eat.
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He'd rather die himself now than be left without her.
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He would rather died on the spot than endure that pain again.
■ NOUN
accident
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Farin a died in a motorcycle accident days after the book came out.
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Erich Maria Remarque told the story of three men he had known whose wives died suddenly in accidents .
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She had to mourn for her friends who died in the accident .
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His father died in a hunting accident during the war.
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And many more died from accidents .
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This fall, the second friend died in a car accident in ambiguous circumstances.
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The couple have four sons but want a girl after their three-year-old daughter Nicole died in a bonfire accident .
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A son had died in a highway accident and the other daughter lived in Califor-nia.
age
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Statistics show that one in every three company directors aged 40 will die before reaching age 65.
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Battles over the monetary and literary estate of the Fresno author began as soon as he died of cancer at age 72.
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He died at the age of 63 in October, 1973, after 58 years as an entertainer.
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Ella was a girl until she died at the age of 78.
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They had two sons, the elder of whom died at the age of nineteen, and two daughters.
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In 1988, Stanley McGill of Los Angeles died at age 98.
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After a wild success Raymond died at the age of 20 from typhoid brought about by eating oysters.
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A few of the wealthier ones died of old age or cancer or heart attacks, but not many.
attack
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Steen had died of a heart attack .
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Nine men and two women died in the attack on a minivan bus Friday.
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Three of the admiral's aides, along with the bomber, also died in the attack .
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The elder Earnhardt died of a heart attack at age 45 in 1973.
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Twenty-one people died in one attack on a squatter camp in Katlehong, east of Johannesburg.
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He saw a medical doctor three days before he died of a heart attack and passed the checkup with flying colors.
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He died from a heart attack .
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Stillman himself died of a heart attack in 1975after some 20 million people had been on his diet.
cancer
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Les's first wife Meg died of cancer in 1986.
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But she died of cancer on 18 May 1991, six weeks into the financial year.
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Atwater died of brain cancer in 1991.
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He died of cancer in January 1932, leaving his companions grief-stricken.
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Battles over the monetary and literary estate of the Fresno author began as soon as he died of cancer at age 72.
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First of all, my dearest man friend died of cancer , aged forty-two.
cause
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They died without questioning the cause .
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They die of all causes , but like single men, divorced men specialize in accidents and suicides.
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The date on which patients had died but not the cause was recorded.
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Three flames more likely to die from all causes combined.
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The machine was not switched off, but Mr Lavelle died of natural causes , police said.
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He then went to live with his paternal grandparents, who died of natural causes soon after his placement with them.
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Voice over A postmortem has revealed the man died from natural causes , there are no suspicious circumstances.
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Park officials defended their care of Yaka, insisting she died of natural causes after a lengthy illness.
child
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Nowadays we have to be concerned that a child could die .
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The Lapwai Nez Perce opened a school there, but the children continued to die .
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When my child died I might have given way to grief as I loved him very much.
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Every hour that passes, another 500 children die .
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Zhang, concluded that thousands of children die every year from neglect in orphanages.
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Aunt Lilian had never had any children , and she died in 1960 when she was only fifty-five.
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Denied food and other care, the targeted children withered and died .
daughter
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She was able to continue doing what she had to until the daughter died three years later.
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They had six sons, one of whom died young and four of whom became Anglican clergymen, and seven daughters .
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Another daughter , Elizabeth, died of fever at age two in 1764 and was buried in the Negro cemetery alongside Nina.
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And at that point I announce that my daughter is dying .
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Our own lovely daughter died surrounded by love, such a comfort in our loss.
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His daughter had died of an overdose of drugs three years before.
day
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Then, one day after the babies died , Lord Lindsay gave me a letter.
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He talks about the importance of anniversaries, for example-the number of men who die on the same day their fathers died.
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They said she had pulmonary embolism and 7 days later, she died .
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How about wearing apparel for the feet, or the things Napoleon thought about the day he died ?
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An apparent suicide note found in the house on the day she died claimed the child had been fathered by another man.
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They cut out their tongues and on the seventeenth day they all died .
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I think she cried till the day she died .
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But maybe it was the day he died .
days
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While in police custody he was beaten and died four days later.
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There he died five days later.
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Falconio lingered for 11 days in a coma before he died .
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When he died a few days later Philip called off the invasion.
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In the fight that followed, Griffith beat Paret so severely that he died several days later.
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Dean Bunn died five days earlier.
death
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In 1970 a large area of bamboo flowered and died resulting in many deaths through starvation in the panda population.
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They say people who die sudden, violent deaths are most likely to become ghosts and haunt the earth.
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I did not have the courage then to die the death that she died.
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And another young man suspect of a thing far out of his scope, who must not die a similarly unjust death .
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Nockerd was left with the little baby, who died a pitiful death before he was two.
disease
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We know that all of us will eventually die from disease , natural disaster, accidents or whatever.
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But the number of women who die from the disease each year has remained essentially the same.
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I mean, children used to die of diseases which are stamped out now.
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Five times more likely to die from infectious diseases and parasites; and Six times more likely to die from other diseases.
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His mam was dying of some rare disease which no doctor could cure and always, but always, proved fatal.
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Five times more likely to die from infectious diseases and parasites; and Six times more likely to die from other diseases.
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Each year some 14 million young children die of preventable diseases .
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They were dying there of disease .
father
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After his father died he did a lot of odd jobs, including shining shoes, boxing professionally and preaching.
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He got back in the car even though his father Bobby nearly died on a track.
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But this Saturday differed from other Saturdays: it was exactly five years since her father had died .
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At fourteen, when his father died , John did the tricks in his mind.
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The tenant had been in partnership with his father , who had died .
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I worry about cholesterol, because my father died of a heart attack at an early age.
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The pity of it was, not long after my father died in 1933 things improved quite a lot in the material sense.
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Theresa Adams Garcia, who was 20 when her father died , is asking for $ 22, 000.
fire
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We told them to get out.Three deny they left twins to die in barn fire .
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Also patron of architects, builders, dying , fire prevention, founders, miners, and stonemasons.
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The goodwill died with the fire and black shapes loomed up out of the dark.
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Four times more likely to die from fires .
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Four died when gunmen opened fire on a pick-up truck loaded with people near Port Shepstone in southern Natal.
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Eighty-four persons, including 25 children, died in the fire .
heart
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Alexander Schweidler, 78, a former concentration camp guard who settled in Britain, died after a heart attack.
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The elder Earnhardt died of a heart attack at age 45 in 1973.
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In fact the late Malcolm Forbes died from heart failure.
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The court of appeals upheld the sentences for the two remaining after one died of a heart attack.
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He died of heart failure 9 April 1930, at home in South Marston, after visiting his dying wife in hospital.
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Then he died suddenly of a heart attack in 1983 at the age of 53.
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Then I sow one of my colleagues die from a heart attack and two others crack up under the strain.
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I worry about cholesterol, because my father died of a heart attack at an early age.
hospital
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A seventh died at a hospital in Harlingen.
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Four died in hospital and Emma Hartley, one of the survivors, was trying to come to terms with that.
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Five months later, he died in a Paris hospital , raised to the dignity of Marshal on his last day.
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Read in studio A man has died in hospital , after being released from Police custody.
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Retired postman Mr Wilkins, 73, was already dead and his 83-year-old wife died in hospital two weeks later.
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Even so the horse ambulance was slow and men often died before they reached hospital .
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Two of the kids and the fourth missionary died later in hospital .
husband
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Joyce Tapsall who's sixty-eight has lived alone longer than most widows - her husband died when she was twenty-nine.
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She inherited the job when her husband died .
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Flora had never forgiven her husband for dying ten years before, leaving her badly off.
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My husband died 11 years ago and I built my world around Louis.
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The husband died after about fifteen years of marriage, and Minnie worked hard enough to help all three children through college.
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My husband died two months ago, and we had no issue.
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My own husband died five years ago.
man
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But some might care to reflect that driver Jack Mills died in 1970 a broken man .
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Nine men and two women died in the attack on a minivan bus Friday.
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Three West Belfast men died in a hail of bullets.
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A University of Pennsylvania study shows that more women are seeking to be artificially inseminated with sperm from men who have died .
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Poor man , he died in 1989, just short of his eightieth birthday.
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Good men died because the administration delayed, pondering options to the end.
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I tried to tell her the man got to die sometime.
month
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But Lord Burlesdon fell ill, and six months later he died .
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She died a month later, he said.
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Pepita's father had died two months previously.
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But we do know how many people die each month and of what.
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Karl-Heinz Ehlen died a month later with seven victories.
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When Theo Wilson died last month , an era died with her.
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Abandoned fawns have been reared on a bottle, only to die within a few months .
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She fell into a coma, and died about a month after the stroke.
patient
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Liver transplantation was proposed but the patient died from cardiovascular failure.
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While my therapy method was being developed, 1 had to live with the fact that nearly all my patients died .
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Ten patients had died all unrelated to the iron deficiency anaemia.
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Therapists working with the dying must expect that their patients will die!
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For all patients who died outside of trial surveillance, the dates of their deaths were obtained.
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During this time 15 of 46 patients died of causes unrelated to the gastro-oesophageal disease.
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Excision biopsy was carried out and before the result was available the patient deteriorated rapidly and died .
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If you were a weak patient you would die .
people
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Every year in Britain about 5,000 people die on the roads.
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At the pleasure of a couple of bourgeois we get a world war, in which twenty million people die .
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Officials say over 6,000 people have died in militant related killings over the past three years.
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She was one of 37 people to die in the crash.
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So many people were dying that no one would notice a few more.
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Thus far, 11 people have died , and thousands are homeless.
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In 1985 more than 50 people died in a fire at Bradford City Football Club.
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He had not been on the verge of spilling the beans - people just die , that's all.
son
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They had one son , who died in 1893, and two daughters.
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Her two sons sought retribution for their father, but Rita would rather her sons died than become murderers.
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They had one son , who died at birth.
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A son had died in a highway accident and the other daughter lived in Califor-nia.
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I watched my son die in the hospital.
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In 1896 her son died of typhoid.
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In the early 1980s, her son Peter died at 15 of muscular dystrophy.
wife
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When his wife had died , in childbirth, he'd had to give up his married-quarter.
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Many years before, his wife had died , and he had remarried.
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His wife died , then his children.
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His Glasgow-born wife died 13 years ago.
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Rehnquist confronted it himself when his wife , Natalie, died in 1991 after a long battle with ovarian cancer.
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Retired postman Mr Wilkins, 73, was already dead and his 83-year-old wife died in hospital two weeks later.
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That he thought she resembled the actress Lana Turner, and that his wife had died very recently.
year
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The only building unscathed is the green and white tomb of Ibrahim Ahmed Ben Omar, who died 750 years ago.
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Twenty-four thousand die in childbirth every year , and 95 percent of the children born to them die within one year.
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Among the millions who die each year through malnutrition there are many children of the Kingdom.
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One in five older victims will die within a year of fracturing a hip.
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Others would die the year after that.
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However, Enkhari had died young, a year before Lucien had left home.
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His wife of 54 years , Carol, had died the year before, and he was still mourning her.
years
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She dies in 1963, years before the critically acclaimed work was being adapted for the silver screen.
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A man called Bukhari went around after Muhammad died and spent sixteen years compiling his collection.
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He died a few years later.
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Bernard's wife died only about ten years ago.
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Witness the tax on Temple property he tried to impose just after the old king died two years ago.
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He was to die four years later.
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Closer, even, than he had come to dying in his years in the war.
■ VERB
live
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I mean you really don't care whether you live or die .
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It was up to me who lived and who died .
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It is what helps keep them sane, chained to a wall not knowing if they are going to live or die .
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One died because the other lived , and one lived because the other died.
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Again, the rules of cost and benefit determine who lives and who dies .
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Naturally she was frightened and upset and wanted some help in finding out how to live until she died .
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They lived happily until they died , and their children ruled the kingdom for generations to come.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
If I should die, think only this of me:/That there's some corner of a foreign field/That is forever England
be dying/dropping etc like flies
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Grocer profits While other retailers are dropping like flies , supermarkets are making fat profits.
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Our kids are dropping like flies .
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The men were dying like flies , of fever.
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They should be dropping like flies , but that hasn't been the case.
die intestate
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He died intestate and administration of his estate was granted to his son John, 23 December 1651 in London.
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He had thought Lehmann had died intestate that his vast fortune had gone back to the Seven.
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Hepplewhite had died intestate at Redcross Street by 27 June 1786, when administration was granted to his widow, Alice.
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However, he died intestate and she claimed that she was absolutely entitled to the deceased's house and other property.
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If a person died intestate the court had power to grant letters of administration of his estate to executors.
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Mr Humber died intestate and the plates therefore returned to the family.
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Partner Richardson died intestate , leaving no directions for conveying his estate and interests in the mines.
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Simpson died intestate 23 March 1847 in Aberdeen.
die without issue
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He shifted restlessly on the bed, thinking of what would happen if he should die without issue .
dying moment/minutes/seconds
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And, in the dying seconds, Miklosko blocked Smillie's close-range effort.
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Hereford usually crack or collapse in the dying minutes.
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In the dying minutes, full-back, Paul Bodin burst through.
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Jason Chandler made certain in the dying minutes of the game, Good Sports winning 2-1.
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One moment of astonishing creativity in the dying seconds on Saturday transported him to the centre of Arsenal's universe.
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Sean Farrell popped in the opener and Danny Allsopp made sure of the points in the dying seconds.
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The World Champion launched a direct attack in the dying moments of the first session.
never say die
old habits die hard
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But old habits die hard, and Apple has shown a proclivity to chase market share while hand-wringing over shrinking gross margins.
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It was probably unnecessary, she thought, but old habits died hard.
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Things were going well, but old habits die hard.
see Naples and die
the dying
to your dying day
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He chose Everton over Arsenal and will regret that decision to his dying day.
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He would insist to his dying day that an arctic wolf had savaged him.
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Nixon believed to his dying day, and with good reason, that Kennedy had stolen the contest, especially in Illinois.
with your last/dying breath
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With his last breath , he told me he would always love me.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Broadway classics like "A Chorus Line" will never die .
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He was very sick and we knew he might die .
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Her husband had died two years earlier.
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His son died of liver cancer three years ago.
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I want to see Ireland again before I die .
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In the spring of her 93rd year, Miss Grantley died in her sleep.
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Many people are worried about growing old and dying alone.
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No wonder your plants always die - you don't water them enough.
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The autopsy said he had died of natural causes, but his family is not convinced.
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The engine coughed and died.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A 72 year old woman died of a perforated colon 11 days after completing the trial, despite continuing prednisolone treatment.
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By the time the white petals died and the mint-colored berry poked out, the leaf shine was gilded tight and waxy.
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Christopher and Matthew Key died when their parents' car collided with another on a waterlogged road.
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I must, I must, I will die if I remain silent.
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Night guard duty was killing time that had died while you weren't looking and so it went on for ever.
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She said she had ruined her eyes by crying too much when her husband died.
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The meeting began with a minute's silence for those who had died in Northern Ireland in the past 23 years.
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Yonatan Barnea also was a soldier on his way back to base when he died.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
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A 64-year-\#old woman dies of chest injuries from an airbag deployment. 1991&038;.
■ VERB
cast
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Four days later Truman cast the die .
let
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I wondered if I could just shut up and let the subject die .
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President Kennedy glossed over the racial animus in Mississippi as he let the issue die by moving on to other concerns.
live
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Why is life so unfair-whether you live or die bears no relationship to what kind of person you are.
see
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She has never gone hungry, suffered horrible illness or seen some one she loves die .
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Doell was the only person in her family to see Harris die .
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For Mankins, seeing Harris die was simple retribution for a heinous crime.
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The others watched her in her wretchedness, gasping for each breath for almost two weeks, only to see her die .
watch
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The agony of watching your child die and not being able to protect it.
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Losing a spouse or watching an adult child die can be devastating.
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Linda Kelley wants to watch Leo Jenkins die .
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For a year and a half he watched his father die , and during that time the family slowly unravelled.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
If I should die, think only this of me:/That there's some corner of a foreign field/That is forever England
cross my heart (and hope to die)
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I didn't take it, cross my heart!
die intestate
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He died intestate and administration of his estate was granted to his son John, 23 December 1651 in London.
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He had thought Lehmann had died intestate that his vast fortune had gone back to the Seven.
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Hepplewhite had died intestate at Redcross Street by 27 June 1786, when administration was granted to his widow, Alice.
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However, he died intestate and she claimed that she was absolutely entitled to the deceased's house and other property.
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If a person died intestate the court had power to grant letters of administration of his estate to executors.
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Mr Humber died intestate and the plates therefore returned to the family.
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Partner Richardson died intestate , leaving no directions for conveying his estate and interests in the mines.
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Simpson died intestate 23 March 1847 in Aberdeen.
die without issue
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He shifted restlessly on the bed, thinking of what would happen if he should die without issue .
do or die
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From now on it was do or die.
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I learnt in the South Bronx and the way you're taught there is a do or die situation.
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It was do or die for me.
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No words, no threats, no waste of energy, just a grim determination to do or die.
dying moment/minutes/seconds
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And, in the dying seconds, Miklosko blocked Smillie's close-range effort.
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Hereford usually crack or collapse in the dying minutes.
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In the dying minutes, full-back, Paul Bodin burst through.
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Jason Chandler made certain in the dying minutes of the game, Good Sports winning 2-1.
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One moment of astonishing creativity in the dying seconds on Saturday transported him to the centre of Arsenal's universe.
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Sean Farrell popped in the opener and Danny Allsopp made sure of the points in the dying seconds.
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The World Champion launched a direct attack in the dying moments of the first session.
never say die
old habits die hard
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But old habits die hard, and Apple has shown a proclivity to chase market share while hand-wringing over shrinking gross margins.
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It was probably unnecessary, she thought, but old habits died hard.
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Things were going well, but old habits die hard.
see Naples and die
the dying
to your dying day
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He chose Everton over Arsenal and will regret that decision to his dying day.
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He would insist to his dying day that an arctic wolf had savaged him.
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Nixon believed to his dying day, and with good reason, that Kennedy had stolen the contest, especially in Illinois.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A die could survive over a long period of time.
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The likely total number of dies can then be multiplied by the average number of coins per die.