Example sentences of "'s death [prep] [adj] [pers pn] " 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | After Agnes 's death in 1772 he married Frances Calvert in 1774 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After Olybrius 's death in 472 it was he who appointed Glycerius as emperor . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Shortly after his wife 's death in 1951 he married Dorothy Joyce Ryder , daughter of Frank Bonham Ryder , an electrical engineer . |
| 19 | At his father 's death in 1598 he inherited about £1,800 per annum in land . |
| 20 | After Edward I 's death in 1307 he left England for ever , returning to his ancestral home at Grandson . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 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 . |