Example sentences of "[noun] [unc] death [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it lasted , the Auxiliary did good work , but after the President 's death it declined and eventually was wound up during the Glasgow Congress in 1920 . |
| 2 | This was successful and at the time of Down 's death it could accommodate 200 patients . |
| 3 | During the interregnum which followed Alexander 's death he hoped the Russian crown would go to the Grand Duke Konstantin , whom he considered a moderate . |
| 4 | The Ras of Tigre , who had greatly facilitated Napier 's advance on Magdala , was suitably rewarded with firearms and cannon , with which during the troubled years that followed Theodore 's death he was able to overcome his rivals . |
| 5 | It was important to Michael Ramsey , not only then but much later , that before Frank 's death he felt him to be less far apart over religion . |
| 6 | A few days before Anthony 's death they had been together at the Lancaster Road Baths watching local semi-professional boxers . |
| 7 | I never aimed to be an independent , career-woman type , but on being jerked into it by Simon 's death I 've had to become one . |
| 8 | In the event of Christian 's death he would not only become the outright owner of Handley Farm , but Christian intended leaving him sufficient money to ensure he did not have to part with the farm in the foreseeable future . |
| 9 | Within hours of her sister 's death she had developed swelling of the eyelids and face . |
| 10 | Moreover , since Watkins 's death we have found that inexplicable straight lines have been left by ancient peoples in other parts of the world . |
| 11 | Before Kelly 's death I did n't even know what a Rottweiler looked like — that 's how ignorant I was . |
| 12 | The first defendant had known the deceased for some seven years and said in evidence that for the 3 or 3½ years before the deceased 's death he had been looking after the deceased . |
| 13 | ‘ He said … he said if anyone was to blame for Eddie 's death it was you ! ’ |
| 14 | I rather hoped I would n't have to face you with this but thanks to your belief that I 'm somehow responsible for Eddie 's death you force my hand . |
| 15 | For all that , on Queenie 's death he was inconsolable : ‘ no human being has ever meant as much to me as she ’ . |
| 16 | For the decade after Clovis 's death we hear little about his sons . |
| 17 | At her husband 's death she had been left with four children under the age of five . |
| 18 | As Noreen prepares for the anniversary of her husband 's death she has a message of hope for Mr Adams 's widow , Catherine , of Witney , Oxon . |
| 19 | For about fifteen months after her husband 's death she felt driven into these encounters . |
| 20 | After her husband 's death she had borne herself with a mournful dignity which had done her standing no harm , and taken the funeral food to the tomb herself with a regularity and devotion which would have shamed women lamenting better-loved partners . |
| 21 | After Monsieur Klein 's death he asked Fernand a lot of stupid questions , just because of some village gossip . ’ |
| 22 | On Tresham 's death she married William Peche of Lullingstone , Kent , who outlived her . |
| 23 | With Steen 's death they had changed . |
| 24 | Everyone around him had assumed that at the ti me of his wife 's death he must miss her very much and said what a wonderful person she was . |
| 25 | After his wife 's death he married a Miss Drayton who had gone to Jamaica as a single woman missionary teacher . |
| 26 | When James Halden led Sarah away from the scene of her father 's death she had never felt so ashamed . |
| 27 | Since her father 's death she had written regularly to her grandfather , but there had been no word in reply from Hester . |
| 28 | After her father 's death she moved to Petersfield , Hampshire , where she supported herself by washing clothes , brewing , and other types of manual work . |
| 29 | Only later did I appreciate what sacrifices my mother made to give it to us , and how lonely she must often have been when we were all away at school ; after our father 's death she became almost possessively devoted to us . |
| 30 | After his father 's death he was taken into the house of a rich Christian lady of liberal sympathies — for Origen too liberal since she had a Gnostic chaplain . |