Example sentences of "death [prep] [adj] [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After Olybrius 's death in 472 it was he who appointed Glycerius as emperor . |
| 6 | At the time of his death in 1949 he was professor of Linguistics at Yale University . |
| 7 | Until Sell 's death in 1915 they were jointly responsible for teaching in the university chemical laboratory , at first located on the east side of the site of the former Botanic Garden and after 1887 in a new building in Pembroke Street . |
| 8 | 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 . |