Example sentences of "['s] death the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five years after Emily Davison 's death the first women won the vote . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But since Mr Brezhnev 's death the Romanian leader has lost his ability to act as an irritant . |
| 4 | Dudley was officially to hear of his wife 's death the following day , when a messenger was despatched from Cumnor Place to Windsor Castle where he was with the Queen . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Two wyverns fell on the same night and after the Emperor 's death the aerial attacks gradually subsided and the siege settled down into a protracted stalemate . |
| 9 | 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 . |