Example sentences of "[vb past] the late [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The series ' existence has hitherto only been known to people who visited the late Dollie de Rothschild 's ( died 1988 ) private house in London , but her heir Lord Rothschild has decided that they should go on display next year in Waddesdon Manor , the house she gave to the National Trust during her lifetime . |
| 2 | On Sept. 28 the Supreme Soviet Presidium stripped the late Leonid Brezhnev of the Order of Victory , saying that his modest war record did not justify the 1978 award . |
| 3 | She lay back in the musty smelling chair , at peace with the world , and allowed the late April sun to envelop her . |
| 4 | Follow they did , and in many departments they matched and even surpassed the later Sierra releases . |
| 5 | The early Carboniferous shelf seas which followed the late Devonian regression were really , in their generalities , very like the Givetian and Frasnian seas of the Devonian . |
| 6 | Nonetheless unlike many of their Palaeozoic companions , they survived the late Permian extinction , and the ancestors of the living Nautilus even underwent a minor evolutionary burst in the Mesozoic , where forms quite similar to the pearly Nautilus can be common fossils . |
| 7 | Cornelius pulled the late Victor Zenobia 's snapshot from his top pocket . |
| 8 | Swain and Jones of Farnham advertised the latest Austin 7 Tourer for the price of £118 . |
| 9 | A small group saw the late Orton Chirwa and his wife shortly before Mr Chirwa 's death . |
| 10 | The early amphibians spanned the late Devonian right up to the end of the Triassic , some 345 to 195 million years ago , as ‘ lords of the coal swamps ’ . |
| 11 | He then persuaded the late Robert Maxwell to join the board . |
| 12 | Each year on the Sunday — the day before the fair started — the family took the late Sunday afternoon walk down Exeter Street , along St. Nicholas Road , over the fourteenth-century Harnham Bridge to The Swan Inn Field . |
| 13 | In 1859 he bought the later Ilminster estate , now occupied by much of Swanage north of the Brook and extending to Ulwell . |
| 14 | Foreign Office chiefs last night said the latest UN crackdown would happen ‘ sooner rather than later ’ . |
| 15 | As we slowly descended , the mist cleared a little , and we found ourselves amid sheep pastures … ’ wrote the late Louis Littman , a successful businessman , when he and his wife first saw Ashley Chase with a view to buying it . |
| 16 | The spot marks the place where where hundreds and thousands gathered in February 1986 for a popular uprising that overthrew the late President Ferdinand Marcos , and made Mrs Aquino the President . |
| 17 | The spot marks the place where where hundreds and thousands gathered in February 1986 for a popular uprising that overthrew the late President Ferdinand Marcos , and made Mrs Aquino the President . |