Example sentences of "[unc] death [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , since Watkins 's death we have found that inexplicable straight lines have been left by ancient peoples in other parts of the world . |
| 2 | For the decade after Clovis 's death we hear little about his sons . |
| 3 | A few days before Anthony 's death they had been together at the Lancaster Road Baths watching local semi-professional boxers . |
| 4 | With Steen 's death they had changed . |
| 5 | At her husband 's death she had been left with four children under the age of five . |
| 6 | When James Halden led Sarah away from the scene of her father 's death she had never felt so ashamed . |
| 7 | Since her father 's death she had written regularly to her grandfather , but there had been no word in reply from Hester . |
| 8 | As Noreen prepares for the anniversary of her husband 's death she has a message of hope for Mr Adams 's widow , Catherine , of Witney , Oxon . |
| 9 | For about fifteen months after her husband 's death she felt driven into these encounters . |
| 10 | Within hours of her sister 's death she had developed swelling of the eyelids and face . |
| 11 | After Ali Reza 's death she insisted that the Shah must produce a son and Heir . |
| 12 | After her father 's death she moved to Petersfield , Hampshire , where she supported herself by washing clothes , brewing , and other types of manual work . |
| 13 | On Tresham 's death she married William Peche of Lullingstone , Kent , who outlived her . |
| 14 | She had been brought up a Unitarian , but about the time of her brother 's death she decided to become a Roman Catholic . |
| 15 | Only later did I appreciate what sacrifices my mother made to give it to us , and how lonely she must often have been when we were all away at school ; after our father 's death she became almost possessively devoted to us . |
| 16 | After her husband 's death she had borne herself with a mournful dignity which had done her standing no harm , and taken the funeral food to the tomb herself with a regularity and devotion which would have shamed women lamenting better-loved partners . |
| 17 | For over a year she had been cutting out coupons from magazines and sending off for make-up samples that she had kept hidden in a small suitcase in the boathouse ; since her grandmother 's death she had brought them indoors and experimented openly , primping all day long , leaving streaks of grease everywhere , on the table cloth , on the bathroom shelves . |
| 18 | Before Kelly 's death I did n't even know what a Rottweiler looked like — that 's how ignorant I was . |
| 19 | I never aimed to be an independent , career-woman type , but on being jerked into it by Simon 's death I 've had to become one . |
| 20 | I enjoyed the work and college life very much , but after my father 's death I stopped doing my work at the college . |
| 21 | ‘ It is not Sidacai 's death I am being asked for , but his life , ’ he said . |
| 22 | For the first time since Henry 's death I felt some happiness . |
| 23 | After the news of George 's death I had no reserves to respond adequately . |
| 24 | Since their mother 's death it had been run by Maggie , with bits of help from Mona and Sheila . |
| 25 | It is not entailed to the eldest son , or anything like that ; but as things stand , on Charles 's death it would go to the particularly repellent son of his younger brother . ’ |
| 26 | A few years after Coleman 's death it contained dried specimens under an accumulation of discoloured varnish , plus an incomplete horse skeleton , but there was no catalogue . |
| 27 | In the event , this official reformation was both rapid and radical , but up until just a few weeks before Henry 's death it had by no means been inevitable . |
| 28 | While it lasted , the Auxiliary did good work , but after the President 's death it declined and eventually was wound up during the Glasgow Congress in 1920 . |
| 29 | This was successful and at the time of Down 's death it could accommodate 200 patients . |
| 30 | But since my brother 's death it has been my duty to care for my two nieces . |