Example sentences of "death in [adj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 On his father 's death in 1696 he inherited estates in Buckinghamshire .
7 At the time of his mother 's death in 1582 he had drifted to France to join other exiled English Catholics at Douai .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 After Agnes 's death in 1772 he married Frances Calvert in 1774 .
12 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 .
13 Following her father 's death in 1866 she carried on his pioneering work on the development of the screw propeller for steamships .
14 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 . ] .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Shortly after his wife 's death in 1951 he married Dorothy Joyce Ryder , daughter of Frank Bonham Ryder , an electrical engineer .
19 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 .
20 After Edward I 's death in 1307 he left England for ever , returning to his ancestral home at Grandson .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 At his father 's death in 1598 he inherited about £1,800 per annum in land .
25 On his death in 1985 he left two gold watches to his sons .
26 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 ’ .
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