Example sentences of "[noun prp] ii and [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | An incident during the life of Haymo in 1326 , explains the reason for the building of the high walls around the palace : In this year Haymo was called to London for a meeting arranged by the Archbishop of Canterbury , to try and bring about the reconciliation of the King , Edward II and his Queen . |
2 | The early 1330s , therefore , saw the renewal of English involvement in Scotland and in 1334 David II and his wife fled to France for asylum , a development which in its turn seriously complicated England 's relations with France . |
3 | However , Richard II and his government were lurching towards an angry showdown with their critics . |
4 | According to King Hassan II and his government , the prison does not exist — or , even if it does , the people all love the King so much it would be unsafe to release the prisoners — they might be killed by the populace . |
5 | Renamed in 1918 in honour of central committee secretary Yasha Sverdlov , Yekaterinburg was famous as the place where Tsar Nikolai II and his family were executed . |
6 | Bogomilism in Bosnia revived in the fourteenth century during the reigns of the Kotromanić rulers , Stephen II and his son , Tvrtko , who was crowned King of ‘ Serbia , Bosnia , the Primorje and the western lands ’ in 1377 . |
7 | Finally , in 1571 , the Emperor Maximilian II and his wife paid a visit on foot to the Jewish quarter , and were welcomed under a traditional canopy by the Rabbi and the mayor , Mordechai Maizl . |
8 | Lothar was awaiting the arrival of Pippin II and his men from Aquitaine . |
9 | In 1684 Croom , a printer of Bride Lane had such a press which was patronised by Charles II and his court mingling with the crowds on the ice . |
10 | In the 1670s the Hudson 's Bay Company must have looked like one of the least important overseas concerns that Charles II and his government had to handle . |
11 | This was no new departure : Charles I had wanted a strong navy , though his reliance on unparliamentary taxation to pay for it had led to trouble ; the Republic had gone further afield than previous governments and had won some notable successes ; and Charles II and his brother James had tried to build up a strong navy without becoming too caught up by the House of Commons and its desire to control policy by controlling finance . |
12 | VICTIMS : The killing of Nicholas II and his family shocked the world . |
13 | BRITISH scientists have begun six month tests to see if bones from a Russian pit are those of executed Tsar Nicholas II and his family . |
14 | Their ambitions and aspirations abroad — to adopt an Anglocentric point of view — are a major theme of this book , and the spectre of Henry II and his sons can not be easily exorcized . |
15 | Philip Augustus had concentrated his efforts against Henry II and his sons in northern and central France . |
16 | A short ceremony in the king 's chamber at Westminster marked the end of the Angevin Empire , in the form which it had assumed under Henry II and his sons . |
17 | But in the early stages of his reign , as he sought to establish himself in quarrels with some of his more powerful vassals , Philip relied heavily upon aid from Henry II and his sons , from the family which he was to do so much to tear apart . |
18 | It was the spearhead of the contest between King Henry II and his archbishop of Canterbury , Thomas Becket . |
19 | Hence Jacobitism , the belief that James II and his heirs were the rightful rulers of Scotland ( and possibly England as well ) took far deeper root in Scotland than England , where it soon became the mere dream of a few impractical romantics . |
20 | In the evening they constructed a bonfire outside , where they drank the healths of James II and his son , forcing passers-by to do the same , and offering insults to those who refused . |
21 | In fact , in the early Merovingian period it seems to have been held by the rulers of the eastern kingdom , but after Sigibert I 's murder in 575 half of it was handed over to Guntram , presumably to cement an alliance between the young Childebert II and his uncle . |