Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 31 | CHRISTIAN Raducanu , the 22-year-old Romanian lock , disappeared from the party after his team 's 32-0 defeat by Scotland at Murrayfield on Saturday . |
| 32 | The Springboks will rise again ’ — BOB DWYER ( Australia coach ) after his team 's overwhelming victory at Cape Town ( 26–3 ) . |
| 33 | Imagine the following : John Major ( the England manager ) is being interviewed on TV after his team 's 14–0 thrashing by Upper Volta under 14's . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | It is said that the vicar fell out with the church when , some years after his children 's deaths , he was denied permission to erect a monument in the churchyard . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Only after his son 's arrival at his camp did Henry II rouse himself from the passivity of the last month . |
| 40 | The opportunity was there : when he became prime minister after his mother 's assassination by Sikh extremists , he carried with him the goodwill and sympathy of both parliament and public . |
| 41 | After his mother 's assassination , in 1984 , some 3,000 Sikhs were killed in Delhi . |
| 42 | That decision exposed the party 's bankruptcy : with no leader of stature to replace Mr Gandhi , they turned to a woman whose only political asset was her name , which , the party hoped , would bring in the sympathy vote that swung Rajiv into power after his mother 's death in 1984 . |
| 43 | In 1962 , three years after his mother 's death , he sold the Castlewellan estate to the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 44 | The monastery of the Poor Clares knew him well as a loyal altar server after his mother 's early death . |
| 45 | It is a one-storey place with a small balcony overlooking the street , exactly as described in l'Etranger when Meursault while away the Sunday after his mother 's funeral . |
| 46 | The infant James himself was , breaking with all tradition , given a hurried coronation in Stirling 's medieval Church of the Holy Rude after his mother 's forced abdication . |
| 47 | He was illegitimate , and was christened Richard Denemy after his mother 's maiden name . |
| 48 | He went to live at Stourhead after his mother 's death in 1742 , and over the next forty years he became a discriminating collector and patron of the arts , laying the foundations of an important library , but above all he transformed the landscape at Stourhead , creating the lake and the classical temples , which so vividly recall a Claudian idyll . |
| 49 | As he grew older his own life began to have more centre to it and he gave up yearning so hungrily after his mother 's attention . |
| 50 | After his mother 's death , Crawford parted company with his stepfather for ever and moved in with his maternal grandmother , Edith Pike . |
| 51 | The Scottish nobles set up a Regency Council with control of Margaret 's baby sons , one of whom , Alexander , Duke of Ross , dies soon after his mother 's sudden departure for England . |
| 52 | Matthew planned to take the Government to the European Court of Human rights after his family 's civil action against the school failed . |
| 53 | His mother had driven their secondhand Jaguar into a concrete wall six weeks after his father 's death . |
| 54 | Although she was the dominant parent , she had made no attempt to do so until then ; Robin 's father remembered being circumcised after his father 's death , when he was seven . |
| 55 | Peter the Great had a particular liking for Scots , probably influenced by his mother who had been reared by a Scotswoman , and by his own guardian after his father 's death having been a General Menzies . |
| 56 | For ten months after his father 's death he had unquestioningly taken the same train home , cooked a meal to be eaten at 7.30 ( as he had always done when his parents were alive ) , watched television , made a cup of tea at 9.30 ( as he had done when his parents were alive ) , and gone to bed . |
| 57 | Thibaut IV of Champagne , the son of Thibaut III and Blanche of Navarre , was born after his father 's death at Troyes in 1201 . |
| 58 | Benjamin 's mother was lying paralysed in Shoreditch Workhouse even as the portrait was being executed , and he himself had only been saved from abject poverty after his father 's premature death by the generous good offices of his uncle , Samuel Hasted . |
| 59 | In addition , the deal covering the Walter-Guillaume donation ( handled by Jacques Walter after his father 's accidental death ) implied that the international nature of his own private collection — his right to dispose of it on the international market in other words — should be respected and the French State show itself ‘ worthy ’ of the gift . |
| 60 | A bit correct for a small boy , a little formal , but they had been his proxy parents for school terms after his father 's death , and after his mother had taken off with Herbie . |