Example sentences of "[pron] after his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cripps denied that the books had been improperly kept , saying that an accounts clerk had been appointed to look after them after his own health had broken down in 1917 . |
| 2 | She heard his low voice as he spoke to them , greeted them after his long absence . |
| 3 | Having been a hostage among the Huns himself , he had called in Hunnic troops to support the usurper Joannes in 425 ; he fled to them after his defeat at the hands of Boniface in 432 ; and he was probably behind their destruction of the Burgundian kingdom in the mid-430s . |
| 4 | He ( Churchill ) saw me after his afternoon nap and was purring like a tiger . |
| 5 | Then I said that most of the money would come to me after his death , anyway — I mean , that 's what he told me when the will was read — and it would be too late then . |
| 6 | Spinner killed himself after his wife 's death . |
| 7 | Over 17 hands high , he had a girth which measured seventy-nine inches ( Secretariat 's girth was thought to be remarkably large at seventy-six inches ) and housed a heart which after his death tipped the scales at fourteen and a half pounds : the average for a Thoroughbred is around ten pounds . |
| 8 | He produced thousands of drawings and paintings , which after his death his wife , who lives in the Cotswolds , published in a book . |
| 9 | Even though experienced Australian batsmen like Marsh and Dean Jones ( before his second-innings 150 at Perth ) have flopped badly this summer at international level , perhaps the most disappointing has been Mark Waugh , who after his sensational century on debut against England at Adelaide last year was expected to forge a long-term place in the middle order . |
| 10 | ‘ I may just be able to tell you after his funeral . ’ |
| 11 | If Pound in this way did bypass Aubeterre , he missed something after his own heart . |
| 12 | Edward acknowledges her effect on him in a letter — one of numerous happy , affectionate letters to ‘ My dearest Friend ’ — from his lodgings at 113 Cowley Road , Oxford , 29 January 1898 ( the third of his letters to her after his return to Oxford for the Lent Term ) : Take care of yourself my dearest friend . |
| 13 | Cleese , 52 , fell for her after his divorce two years ago from his second wife , film director Barbara Trentham . |
| 14 | Alice was to be handed over to a guardian nominated by Richard , who would marry her after his return from crusade . |
| 15 | What his countrymen did not deserve was being prevented from ousting him after his second term of office . |
| 16 | Although I have a soft spot for him after his super-game Hennessy win , he does not appeal greatly as 7-2 favourite . |
| 17 | Linnaeus respected Miller 's work and corresponded with him after his return to Europe ; there are ten letters from Chelsea in the Linnaean collection covering the period from 1752 to 1768 . |
| 18 | Oliver warned him after his round , and offered the option of two hundred and fifty pounds into the Pro Golfers ’ Benevolent Fund , or an official reprimand and a fine . |
| 19 | As for MCC members ( ‘ those so-and-sos ’ ) , he vowed never to raise his bat to them again after they averted their collective gaze from him after his ‘ pair ’ against Australia in '81 . |
| 20 | There remained a core of committed supporters who had accompanied Edward into exile or who rallied to him after his landing in Yorkshire in 1471 . |
| 21 | Thomas Mountford , Warwick 's retainer , acted as guarantor of an arbitration by Gloucester and was given an annuity by him after his accession , while his kinsman John was one of the duke 's chaplains . |
| 22 | ‘ People coming and going ’ were to provide Bischof 's subject matter in the eight years of life that remained to him after his meeting with Rosellina ; people in camps , people displaced by the Second World War and then by the regional wars that succeeded it , from Eastern Europe to Indochina , and from Scandinavia to Japan . |
| 23 | ‘ Did not someone think of pinning that on him after his fall ? |
| 24 | Leopold made Stockmar promise never to leave him after his wife , Princess Charlotte , died in childbirth in 1817 at Claremont near Windsor . |
| 25 | Wickham had been impressed with Shildon when he had interviewed him after his amended statement . |
| 26 | Stumbling forward blindly , he tried to recall the route the oriental had taken him after his capture on his previous visit . |
| 27 | There had n't been time to get Maxim 's name on the usual notice of forthcoming visitors to the embassy ; she had been signalled by the Security Service who shared the Steering Committee 's deep distrust of the visit and wanted her to debrief him after his meeting . |
| 28 | Although he was pardoned by the King and sent into exile ( presumably for his own protection ) , there were riots against him after his release from the Tower , and when he sailed from England he was intercepted and murdered on 2 May . |
| 29 | There remained a core of committed supporters who had accompanied Edward into exile or who rallied to him after his landing in Yorkshire in 1471 . |
| 30 | Thomas Mountford , Warwick 's retainer , acted as guarantor of an arbitration by Gloucester and was given an annuity by him after his accession , while his kinsman John was one of the duke 's chaplains . |