Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subject is the saint after his martyr 's death , the result of being flayed alive , with his skin over his shoulder like a cloak ; go around behind the statue to see the face , with hair , beard and eye holes . |
| 2 | Again the two brothers were pushing at each other and as they all mounted the steps Ellen stepped and walked by the side of her son , something she was in the habit of doing whenever they were in company , and which Joe had been aware of from the time she had recovered after his uncle 's death . |
| 3 | THE brother of murdered teenager Julie Dart went off the rails after his sister 's death , a court heard yesterday . |
| 4 | A father does n't go after his daughter 's seducer with a shotgun — not any more . ’ |
| 5 | Dustin 's transition after his wife 's rape from passive to active , from Clark Kent to Superman , comes about too smoothly to be credible . |
| 6 | After his wife 's departure in 1789 , Henry retired to the village of Bolas Magna in Shropshire to escape both the scandal and his heavy gambling debts . |
| 7 | Probyn , who made a television appeal after his wife 's disappearence , was later arrested at his home in Longley near Gloucester . |
| 8 | It does relate , however , that Tawell retained Sara Hart 's services after his wife 's death and rewarded the young lady with a second child . |
| 9 | He felt more duty to his mother too , because she had brought up his own first son after his wife 's death in childbirth . |
| 10 | Spinner killed himself after his wife 's death . |
| 11 | Shortly after his wife 's death in 1951 he married Dorothy Joyce Ryder , daughter of Frank Bonham Ryder , an electrical engineer . |
| 12 | After his wife 's death in 1899 Machen briefly sought solace in the occult fraternity , the Order of the Golden Dawn , but ultimately found its teachings sterile . |
| 13 | , Arthur Norman ( 1914–1969 ) , philosopher , was born 4 December 1914 in Masterton , New Zealand , the only child of Elizabeth Munton Rothesay Teague ( who died shortly after his birth ) and Norman Henry Prior , medical doctor , who remarried shortly after his wife 's death , and had two other sons and a daughter . |
| 14 | When Freddie returned from compassionate leave in Scotland after his wife 's miscarriage and found the letter waiting which requested him to report to London immediately , he did so with thankfulness , even though he was not yet aware of the full repercussions of his latest extra-marital affair . |
| 15 | ANGUISHED William McGovern , 12 , hanged himself in Wishaw , Lanarkshire , four days after his parents ' divorce . |
| 16 | In practice , very few Romanians would have recognized Valentin Ceauşescu before his family was exposed to public denunciation after his parents ' fall . |
| 17 | Edgar Linton was still in love with her , and thought himself the happiest man on earth when he married her three years after his parents ' death . |
| 18 | From his locked cupboard he took out an envelope , which he had received soon after his friend 's death . |
| 19 | ‘ Now , ’ as the naturalist Tomasso Salvadori commented after his friend 's death , ‘ arrived the most important moment in Gould 's life , and the consequences which it had have never been equalled in the annals of ornithology . ’ |
| 20 | Paul would depart early in the morning , leaving Dinah still asleep ; by the time he got back after his day 's reading at the publishing house , had had a meal , and worked on his manuscript , Dinah was long gone . |
| 21 | In a newspaper interview , he 's criticised his father , the Duke of Marlborough as thoughtless and insensitive , for going hunting just 2 days after his daughter-in-law 's accident . |
| 22 | The Villa boss was still trying to pick up the pieces after his side 's shock exit from the Coca-Cola Cup in Tuesday night 's fourth round replay at Ipswich . |
| 23 | Sunderland .......... 1 Sheffield United .... 1 WHAT gets up Dave Bassett 's nostrils , as he so vividly put it after his side 's draw at Roker Park , are the people who make comparisons between Sheffield United and his former club , Wimbledon . |
| 24 | When Neil Jenkins was asked after his side 's quarter-final victory over Cardiff High School Old Boys ( also known as Cardiff Harlequins ) , which club he would like to see Pontypridd avoid in the semi-finals , he replied that he would like to miss out on Swansea and Llanelli . |
| 25 | The following day , before the final results were declared , Madani demanded the dissolution of the National Assembly after his party 's surprise victory , although he stressed that he was not calling for the replacement of President Chadli Bendjedid , whose third five-year term would not expire until 1993 . |
| 26 | However , after his stepfather 's death in 1859 , when he came into a comfortable inheritance , Wallis never again made the same artistic impact , though he remained an Academy exhibitor until 1877 . |
| 27 | Rumours flared that her relationship with 32-year-old Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora was on again when the two were seen embracing after his band 's surprise London gig last week . |
| 28 | Gloucester 's actions after his brother 's death are traditionally seen as the triumph of an over-mighty subject , and it follows that Edward IV had been making a rod for his own back when he allowed Gloucester to become lord of the north . |
| 29 | Gloucester 's actions after his brother 's death are traditionally seen as the triumph of an over-mighty subject , and it follows that Edward IV had been making a rod for his own back when he allowed Gloucester to become lord of the north . |
| 30 | Only after his son 's arrival at his camp did Henry II rouse himself from the passivity of the last month . |