Example sentences of "[noun sg] who succeeded him " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this he will be required to make it over to a family member , just as any heir who succeeded him from outside the family would be required to do . |
| 2 | The man who succeeded him as Secretary General of the Young Communists , Carlos Contreras Maluje , was picked up after putting up a struggle in the street . |
| 3 | The difficulty is that the Earl of Orford , who did not die until 5 December 1791 , was named George , while his uncle who succeeded him as fourth Earl was named Horatio , although he disliked this name , and called himself Horace Walpole instead . |
| 4 | His twenty-three year old son who succeeded him , Edward II , chose not to continue the challenge and returned to London and marry Isabella , the daughter of King Philip IV of France . |
| 5 | When John McEnroe stunned the tennis world by beating Boris Becker at the Australian Open , after a succession of resounding defeats from the player who succeeded him as Wimbledon Champion in 1985 , he described it as ‘ getting a monkey off my back . ’ |