Example sentences of "succeed [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sergius III had an illegitimate son whom he arranged should succeed him as pope . |
| 2 | Of those who might succeed him as leader , at least two men and one woman — Constantine Simitis , Gerasimos Arsenis and Vasso Papandreou ( no relation ) — could probably do for Greece 's left what Michel Rocard has proposed to do for France 's . |
| 3 | When Evan Hopkins Turner retires next July , Robert P. Bergman will succeed him as director in Cleveland . |
| 4 | Prime Minister Mahathir on Dec. 28 , 1989 , advised UMNO ( Baru ) that Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghafar Baba should succeed him as leader of the party and of the government . |
| 5 | So it was when , in the spring of 1947 , he announced that he would shortly present to the Cortes the draft of a law which would regulate the question of who would succeed him as Head of State and , equally important , when this event would take place . |
| 6 | On at least one occasion , he went so far as to express the hope that his own son would succeed him as monarch . |