Example sentences of "death of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Death of his father . |
| 2 | My fellow residents turned out to be a chap in his late thirties who was trying to put his life back together after the death of his wife and various other things , and a chap of about my age who had also run into problems after his wife died . |
| 3 | His tone is one of sadness , of a great day now passed , of his uncles ' and cousins ' deep sense of loss — which he shared — of the death of his father ( again ) , and of the disenchantment with their present , pedestrian lives in the light of the splendid triumphs of the past . |
| 4 | If Pound had attended to Thomas Hardy 's marriage to Florence Emily Dugdale within two years of the death of his first wife , Emma , there can be little doubt that this is the verdict he would have passed on the transaction . |
| 5 | Mr Gray , opening his case , explained how the the pamphlet was the culmination of a campaign against the peer by Mr Watts , who was pursuing an unpaid life insurance claim on the death of his brother-in-law in 1975 . |
| 6 | IT WAS , said Monty Python member Terry Jones yesterday of the death of his colleague Graham Chapman the worst case of party pooping he have ever come across . |
| 7 | He has told the jury that he is the victim of a campaign of harassment by Mr Watts , who was annoyed by the company 's failure to ‘ pay out ’ on the death of his brother-in-law . |
| 8 | DENIS OSWALD , of Switzerland , is to take over immediately as president of the International Rowing Federation ( FISA ) following the death of his compatriot Thomas Keller , who suffered a heart attack last month . |
| 9 | Lord Aldington , ex-chairman of Sun Alliance Insurance , has told the jury he is the victim of a campaign of harassment by Mr Watts who was annoyed by the company 's failure to pay out on the death of his brother-in-law . |
| 10 | ‘ His marriage ended tragically in the early death of his wife and a year later he shot himself . |
| 11 | The death of his father made him homeless . |
| 12 | The first change , the move to theism , happened in 1929 and coincided more or less directly with the death of his father . |
| 13 | The other two were The Citadel ( 1938 ) , from A. J. Cronin 's novel about a once-idealistic doctor who becomes a cynical practitioner to the upper classes until the death of his friend on the operating table leads to a revival of his old principles , and Goodbye Mr Chips ( 1939 ) , a hymn to the glories of the English public school . |
| 14 | After accidentally bringing about the death of his wife and child , he sets up his own suicide . |
| 15 | Much of his childhood , after the death of his father , and early manhood was spent wresting himself away from the embrace of his mother . |
| 16 | After three years , during which he had to cope with the death of his youngest son , Mr Mathew was denied leave to appeal against the March 1984 judgment . |
| 17 | Advent signals values : that God loved us so much that he was willing to enter upon an adventure that cost him the death of his Son . |
| 18 | The death of his friend became Romero 's conversion . |
| 19 | The death of his beloved grandfather had brought him misery but , at the same time , it had also given him strength . |
| 20 | Let us take one more , this time from the latter part of the century ; it comes from a letter written by the Lancashire engineer and philanthropist , F.W. Crossley , describing the death of his son , Richie : |
| 21 | One may suppose that such was the genesis of C.S. Lewis 's sad comment on his step-children 's response to the death of his wife : |
| 22 | Later , Broderick admits that he was drawing on his own feelings about the death of his actor seven years ago , just as his career was taking off ( ‘ He watched everything I did , he was my big influence , and when I finally started to get work , he never got to see it ’ ) . |
| 23 | Mr Smith , they added , had been depressed since the death of his father 11 years ago , and he found it hard to work the farm alone . |
| 24 | The learned abbot , Lupus of Ferrières , consoling the layman Einhard on the death of his wife , pointed out that God had allowed Absalom to be killed despite the prayers of David ; and Agobard , archbishop of Lyon , writing against superstition , asked Louis the Pious what use it was to suppose that God would always show up the just in judicial ordeals , when he had allowed Josiah to perish in battle against the Egyptians . |
| 25 | A young American actor , Daniel , is called out of self-imposed English exile by the sudden death of his alcoholic father , who was flying to England to effect a reunion . |
| 26 | Mikki Mian ( ’ Brother Mikki ’ as he was known ) was not formally conferred with the title of Nawab in 1982 , after the death of his brother — who also , like their father , died aged 59 . |
| 27 | The Northamptonshire mansion reopens to the public this weekend for the first time since the death of his father . |
| 28 | On the death of his father in 1945 Lord Cranley became the 6th Earl of Onslow . |
| 29 | Mr. Keting , the informer , had suffered with his conscience ever since Richard Baxter had spoken to him , and was now terrified by the death of his master . |
| 30 | On the death of his third wife , Charles lived with no less than three concubines who bore him numerous children . |