Example sentences of "[noun prp] ['s] death the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Samuel Sharp , tells us that on Wilfrid 's death the monks of the priory helped to carry his body from Oundle in Northamptonshire to Ripon Abbey , where he was buried . |
| 2 | But since Mr Brezhnev 's death the Romanian leader has lost his ability to act as an irritant . |
| 3 | Following Dundee 's death the Jacobites suffered a series of defeats , the last , and decisive one , on 1 May 1690 , at Cromdale in Moray , about 30 miles [ 48 km ] east of Inverness . |
| 4 | Even at the time of Chlothar 's death the issue of the succession seems to have been undecided . |
| 5 | After Tvrtko 's death the Bosnian nobles quarrelled and , although the Kotromanić family continued to reign for the next seventy years , their power rapidly declined . |
| 6 | Soon after Allhusen 's death the Tyneside factory was amalgamated in the United Alkali Co . |
| 7 | But 9 months after Warden Sparrow 's death the collection 's being sold off . |
| 8 | Yet after Banks ' death the British government did nothing to help establish the gardens as a national centre for botanical research until a public outcry in 1839–40 led to the appointment of William Hooker ( 1785–1865 ) as the first official director of Kew . |
| 9 | But the most chilling moment was when a 200-page play , written by the woman , with Hendry 's death the climax , was received entitled : Death by Dagger in the Billiards Room . |
| 10 | At the moment of Jesus ' death the curtain of the Temple was torn in two from top to bottom . |
| 11 | There were , inevitably , undesirable aspects in this emphasis on preaching : congregations shopped about and when a preacher died the congregation dwindled : after Spurgeon 's death the attendance at the Tabernacle fell from over ten thousand to just over 3,500 . |
| 12 | By the time of Shuttleworth 's death the firm had manufactured 19,000 portable steam engines and 17,000 threshing machines , as well as finishing machines , straw and hay elevators , and portable grinding-mills . |
| 13 | Isaac remained his father 's sole heir , and on Abraham 's death the blessing of God became his . |
| 14 | Five years after Emily Davison 's death the first women won the vote . |
| 15 | Within a few days of Elizabeth 's death the reivers had taken what they imagined would be the opportunity for easy plunder , and swarmed over the Border in what their victims and the Wardens referred to as ‘ Ill Week ’ . |
| 16 | Police launched an investigation into Henry 's death the next morning … they talked to party-goers and tried to trace the supply chain of the drug . |
| 17 | Aware that Prince Charles was the key to their bid to take control of the church , shortly before James 's death the Arminian polemicist Richard Montagu entitled his new theological work Appello Caesarem — An Appeal to Caesar . |
| 18 | Within half a century of Anselm 's death the only traces of the once-active policy were to be found in the ecclesiastical calendar used by the church of Dublin , which had many peculiarities of Canterbury origin . |
| 19 | By the time of Anselm 's death the question was essentially settled and Anselm 's successor Ralph was fighting in a hopeless cause : by the time of Ralph 's death , the instruments of universal government had become sufficiently highly developed to make all that Lanfranc and Anselm had stood for in this aspect of their work a thing of the past . |