Example sentences of "'s death in [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Following her father 's death in 1866 she carried on his pioneering work on the development of the screw propeller for steamships . |
| 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 1696 he inherited estates in Buckinghamshire . |
| 6 | At the time of his mother 's death in 1582 he had drifted to France to join other exiled English Catholics at Douai . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Shortly before Sikes 's death in 1803 his hydrometer had been adopted by the government excise department for revenue purposes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | After Olybrius 's death in 472 it was he who appointed Glycerius as emperor . |
| 19 | Then , setting up in practice on his own c .1806 , he was employed at Heaton Hall , Lancashire , where both James and Samuel had worked previously ; and on Samuel 's death in 1807 he completed two of his commissions , Tatton Park , Cheshire , and Hackwood Park , Hampshire , and in effect succeeded to his practice in the Cheshire area . |
| 20 | Shortly after his wife 's death in 1951 he married Dorothy Joyce Ryder , daughter of Frank Bonham Ryder , an electrical engineer . |
| 21 | After Tom Luker 's death in 1977 his family gave the Club his putter which is now mounted as a trophy on display in the Club . |
| 22 | At his father 's death in 1598 he inherited about £1,800 per annum in land . |
| 23 | As for cardinals , after Kilwardby 's death in 1310 there were no more English bishops among them until Langham in 1368 and only four others — three Dominicans in this reign and Adam Easton later — before 1378 , compared with fourteen Italian and one hundred and twelve French cardinals . |
| 24 | After Edward I 's death in 1307 he left England for ever , returning to his ancestral home at Grandson . |
| 25 | After her husband 's death in 1947 she co-founded the Albert Howard Foundation , which in 1953 merged with the Soil Association , of which she became honorary life vice-president . |
| 26 | Within 150 years of Osman 's death in 1324 his successors had overrun what remained of the Byzantine empire and had occupied almost all the territory of present-day Yugoslavia which lies south of the Sava-Danube line . |
| 27 | On his father 's death in 1867 he took over the business , and in the 1871 census he was described as ‘ chemist and dealer in foreign stamps ’ . |
| 28 | On the Marshal 's death in 1855 he added the Beresford fortune and estates , which included Bedgebury near Maidstone , to the Hope fortune of £300,000 , and the second Beresford to his name . |