Example sentences of "['s] death and the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Grail and Excalibur were seen centuries after Arthur 's death and the monks who reinterred his body here would scarcely bury such sacred relics . ’ |
| 2 | But in the years between Jane Austen 's death and the publication of Boz , the growth of interest in the actual past , promoted partly by the novels of Scott , began to disturb this peaceful co-existence by taking Gothic style more seriously — an alteration in attitude which can be illustrated by the difference between a Gothic novel like Udolpho , where ancient buildings are impressionistic , and an historical novel like Ivanhoe ( 1819 ) , rooted in fact and actual place . |
| 3 | There was also something soft and subdued and beautiful between the hour of the sun 's death and the hour of darkness . |
| 4 | It was difficult for me to put myself in the Guérigny frame of mind , to accommodate both the knowledge of a beloved 's death and the sense of her imminent return . |
| 5 | In the years between his father 's death and the outbreak of the First War , this became quite a grand establishment . |
| 6 | SET IN ‘ A COUNTRY that is probably Chile , ’ Ariel Dorfman 's Death And The Maiden asks how a new democracy should treat its totalitarian past . |
| 7 | Following Wortley 's death and the wounding of two Australians , the Australian government on Jan. 24 advised the 1,000 Australian citizens living on Bougainville to leave the island immediately . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose it is possible that squatters or other vagrants took possession of the house between the time of my uncle 's death and the sale of the property . |
| 9 | Jane Moss said yesterday that the double heartbreak of her daughter 's death and the murder of her own mum 11 years ago made her want to care for the needy . |
| 10 | After Henry VIII 's death and the accession of the nine-year-old Edward VI his subjects hoped for some relaxation of the Forest law . |
| 11 | On his father 's death and the succession of Macbeth [ q.v . ] , |
| 12 | This was challenged by his brother , however , and reversed by the lord keeper , Francis North , first Baron Guilford [ q.v. ] , and the case continued after Henry 's death and the succession to the dukedom of Charles 's nephew , Henry [ q.v. ] , being finally resolved in Charles 's favour in the House of Lords in June 1685 . |