Example sentences of "death in [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raja James resisted British annexation and on his death in 1868 his title passed to his nephew Charles Johnson , who took the name of Brooke , an active and vigorous administrator of austere though unconventional disposition . |
| 2 | She and her sister inherited the Treffry estates in Cornwall from their brother in 1779 , and after her husband 's death in 1786 she lived in the family home , Place , at Fowey . |
| 3 | From about 1563 until his death in 1590 they were held by Charles Fox , although he had to share the Signet with John Dudley ; and in 1590 Fox was succeeded by Fulke Greville , who had already taken over Dudley 's share of the Signet and had acquired reversions to the Clerkship of the Council in 1577 and the Secretaryship in 1583 . |
| 4 | On William Herland 's death in 1375 he received the office of disposer of the king 's works of carpentry at £18 5s. a year and a robe . |
| 5 | On his father 's death in 1723 he assumed the surname and estate of his great-grandfather Sir George Mackenzie , baronet [ q.v. ] of Rosehaugh , also acquiring property in Angus , Perthshire , and London . |
| 6 | On Forman 's death in 1611 she approached Gresham through her confidante Anne Turner [ q.v. ] , and he employed his skill in efforts to render the earl impotent and to win the queen 's goodwill . |
| 7 | On his father 's death in 1621 he was adopted by his uncle John Browne , a merchant tailor , from whom he eventually inherited a substantial fortune . |
| 8 | On his retirement , George Healey was honoured by being made the Association 's first deaf Patron , and at the Southampton Congress shortly before his death in 1925 he was presented with an illuminated testimonial and a cheque for his pension fund . |
| 9 | Thereafter during the 1820s and 1830s he greatly expanded the firm 's architectural side — following his father 's death in 1827 he devoted his time entirely to architecture , leaving the management of the marble works to his younger brother Francis — and established a substantial practice in the north-west and the adjacent parts of Yorkshire . |
| 10 | On his father 's death in 1696 he inherited estates in Buckinghamshire . |
| 11 | At the time of his mother 's death in 1582 he had drifted to France to join other exiled English Catholics at Douai . |
| 12 | Following her husband 's death in 1976 she served on the politburo from 1978 to 1985 , and remained an influential voice within the CCP even after her formal retirement from public life in 1988 . |
| 13 | Her husband did , however , receive in 1604 a lucrative patent for the weighing of hay and straw , but on his death in 1616 she surrendered the patent to an enterprising brother-in-law , Innocent Lanier . |
| 14 | Until after Philip 's death in 1746 it was still an administrative and not a policy-making body ; but in the second half of the century it acquired greater power and independence . |
| 15 | His eldest brother was the distinguished mathematician and geologist John Playfair [ q.v. ] , and after their father 's death in 1772 he assumed responsibility for the upbringing of the family and , it appears , for launching James on his career . |
| 16 | After Agnes 's death in 1772 he married Frances Calvert in 1774 . |
| 17 | The uniqueness of Henry C. Norman lies in the fact that from 1870 until his death in 1913 he painstakingly recorded almost every corner of Natchez , a town in Mississippi ( and model for the musical ‘ Showboat ’ ) . |
| 18 | Following McDougall 's death in 1961 he agreed to become Chairman , but he was unable to find enough time for the demands of this office and resumed the less onerous duties of the Presidency in 1965 . |
| 19 | Until William Green 's death in 1823 there were not many options open to those people who had the leisure to travel even if they could resist the siren songs of the ‘ Lakes ’ poets . |
| 20 | After his death in 1898 his sons Eustace and Cyril continued the business . |
| 21 | Following her father 's death in 1866 she carried on his pioneering work on the development of the screw propeller for steamships . |
| 22 | Shortly before Sikes 's death in 1803 his hydrometer had been adopted by the government excise department for revenue purposes . |
| 23 | On his death in 1857 he left his books and manuscripts to Morden College , Blackheath , where they survive in a building designed for them by Philip Hardwick [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | Arnold Leese , who was to become the undis-puted leader of the IFL in 1932 , was highly critical of Dell 's social credit views about Hitler as a supposed Jewish agent , but after Beamish 's death in 1948 he used part of his inheritance to revive the Britons . |
| 25 | After her death in 1948 he married in 1949 his long-time friend and collaborator , the actress and journalist ( Kate ) Janet Maitland , daughter of Charles Dallas Alexander , of independent means , and widow of the actor Lauderdale Maitland . |
| 26 | After his death in 1896 his sister Edith became the sub-postmistress for 33 years . |
| 27 | None the less , he did succeed in maintaining the rights of the convent and on his death in 1331 he left the priory a considerable estate of books , vestments , plate , and horses . |
| 28 | In the south , Humphrey , Duke of Gloucester was Justice of the Forests south of Trent from 1416 until his death in 1447. his successors were all great barons . |
| 29 | After Olybrius 's death in 472 it was he who appointed Glycerius as emperor . |
| 30 | Before his death in 1951 he derived great satisfaction from knowing that his son Alan had followed in his footsteps as a missioner to the deaf . |