Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] after his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few days after his birth , as she pulled herself to life and became indissolubly bound by bonds of tender passion to the helpless being she had created , she had wanted to kill him lovingly herself . |
| 2 | In January 1983 , BBC2 's Man Alive showed a documentary called ‘ Only Time Would Tell ’ which discussed the life of Matthew Crosby , an 18 year old Down 's teenager mainly through the eyes of his mother , Anne Crosby , who continues to believe that Matthew would have been better off dead and recalls her desire to end his life with a pillow a few days after his birth . |
| 3 | A few days after his consecration the new Archbishop conducted a formal enquiry and pronounced , as Convocation had already done , that the King 's first marriage was invalid because the Pope had no power to allow him to marry his deceased brother 's wife . |
| 4 | A few days after his arrival my father was received in audience . |
| 5 | The freedom , has , of course , been criticised — especially after the ferocious attack on Lord Goddard made by Mr Bernard Levin in " The Times " a few days after his death . |
| 6 | For a few years after his return to Edinburgh he prepared anatomical and pathological demonstrations in the Department of Anatomy , but latterly he withdrew from public affairs . |
| 7 | The only other Briton to win both Opens is Tony Jacklin who , incidentally , came to Jersey to live and play golf for a few years after his retirement from the professional circuit . |
| 8 | It was a few weeks after his marriage and Stephen had been feeling unsure of himself , unsure of life itself . |
| 9 | A few weeks after his escape from a film disaster , Dustin came shatteringly close to a disaster of a more fatal kind . |
| 10 | Within a few weeks after his arrival in Morocco , only a handful of servants , bodyguards and Dr Prima , the paediatrician , remained with the Shah and the Queen . |
| 11 | John McAllister , his American grandfather , had sold out his interest in his family steel and railway holdings shortly before the Wall Street Crash ; he had died towards the end of the war , a few months after his wife . |
| 12 | Then , too , the Garfields of KILSBY and ASHBY ST LEDGERS were the forefathers of another president , James Garfield , whose tenure , however , was one of the briefest in American history ; his term was cut short by an assassin 's bullet just a few months after his inauguration . |
| 13 | His father died a few months after his birth and his grandmother then ruled as regent . |
| 14 | A few months after his death I finally was able to write an elegy for my father , ‘ died 21st January , 1958 ’ , which is the final poem in The Prodigal Son . |
| 15 | A few months after his death , I was asked to act as editor of this bicentenary history of the Royal Veterinary College , and I am proud to have been one of the team that has produced a book which I hope does justice to the author and to the College . |