Example sentences of "[pos pn] death in [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After his death in 1896 his sister Edith became the sub-postmistress for 33 years . |
| 3 | After his death in 1898 his sons Eustace and Cyril continued the business . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At the time of his death in 1949 he was professor of Linguistics at Yale University . |
| 13 | His son , Hidetada , was an equally able administrator and politician , and by the time of his death in 1632 his family 's position was unchallenged . |
| 14 | Leavis , a radical socialist before 1950 , turned briefly liberal before adopting in his last years a bitterly conservative stance that favoured no party of state , hating economic growth and the European Community , so that long before his death in 1978 his idealism had been soured by the varied spectacle of human folly ; but though always outside religion , he was in no way hostile to it , and admired its moral seriousness . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After his death in 1721 he was buried in Pelynt , where the rusted plate from his coffin , ( subsequently excavated ) , his chair and a crozier are still on view . |
| 17 | On his death in 1985 he left two gold watches to his sons . |