Example sentences of "death the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once sentenced to death the nightmare gets worse : very little care is taken with the inmate 's emotions . |
| 2 | They say that at the moment of death the whole of one 's past life flashes before one 's eyes . |
| 3 | Below is an extract of conversation between two policemen who are telling a third about a cot death the two of them had recently attended . |
| 4 | After his death the standard was taken up by Serov , who still commanded 3,000 men as late as January 1922 . |
| 5 | Was he Death astride his dark charger , was Death the moment of consummation , the moment of glory ? |
| 6 | Before his death the Prince knighted John Higgs , and went specially to St Thomas 's Hospital to perform the investiture at his bedside . |
| 7 | But since Mr Brezhnev 's death the Romanian leader has lost his ability to act as an irritant . |
| 8 | After his death the Henderson family bought the estate and built model cottages designed by Ernest George and Peto in the village . |
| 9 | Mr Thompson was a bachelor , on whose death the Hothams bought Ebberston . |
| 10 | He inherited little from his father , but his wife , Suzan , was daughter of a wealthy lawyer , George Bennett , and after the latter 's death the Le Fanus moved into the dead man 's house in Merrion Square , Dublin . |
| 11 | ‘ This woman , ’ the judge would say , ‘ is so depraved , so much the slave of her own passions , that she had no hesitation in bludgeoning to death the father of her child on Christmas Eve . ’ |
| 12 | Moreover she had the real comfort of knowing that her community appreciated what she was doing ; more , her life excited such admiration that after her death the interment had to be delayed for some days for fear of riots . |
| 13 | Five years after Emily Davison 's death the first women won the vote . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | On his death the same year , the king had the elder of János 's sons beheaded and the other , Matthias , imprisoned in Prague by the Bohemian ruler , George Podiebrad . |
| 16 | Yet three years after his death the heirs of his Islamic regime are engaged in a debate on food prices , economic policy and relations with the West . |
| 17 | Upon his death the title of Emperor , the Frankish territories of Austrasia and Neustria , plus Saxony , Burgundy and Thuringia , would go to his eldest son Charles . |
| 18 | It was this vision of order that held his vast empire together and on his death the entire vision collapsed , and the realm rapidly fell into decay and disunity . |
| 19 | Watching her , Trent recalled sailing towards what he had expected to be his death the previous morning on Golden Girl … his sense of deprivation , of having been robbed of his right to a normal life . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | After death the bodies of the victims of the eruption were rapidly buried by the accumulating ash , and rain falling on this ash soon after the eruption cemented it into a fairly hard mass before the flesh of the corpses had decayed . |
| 22 | Liam found a letter , which the old man had written just after Liam 's mother 's own death the year before . |
| 23 | Unlike the average victim of the worst death the Romans could devise , he died with prayer and forgiveness on his lips rather than curses and hatred . |
| 24 | When the Company 's lease expired in 1892 , Lancaster 's services as manager were retained , thus giving him the distinction of being the first electric street tramway Manager , and upon his death the longest-serving . |
| 25 | After ‘ Nandie 's ’ death the old Guildhall and ‘ Black Hole ’ remained unoccupied and , being found dangerous , were demolished at the turn of the century . |
| 26 | After his death the Estate , including the hotel passed to his second cousin , Sir Winston Churchill . |
| 27 | Alternatively , small mammal carcases may be scavenged , and at any stage after death the bones may be modified by the trampling action of larger animals . |
| 28 | But after death the muscles release the drug into the blood stream , thus raising post-mortem levels . |
| 29 | Despite the earlier authors ' comments on the matter , at the moment of death the cat is not thinking of its human owners ' feelings , but simply about how it can protect itself from the terrifying , unseen danger that is causing it so much pain . |
| 30 | 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 . |