Example sentences of "his death [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sent examples of the air thermometer to friends at home and abroad , and soon after his death it was adopted by the Royal Society and Kew Observatory . |
| 2 | Shortly after his death it was alleged that they had co-operated with him in altering entries on their own plea rolls at his house . |
| 3 | Half a century after his death he was paid the unusual tribute of becoming the subject of a feature film . |
| 4 | Manley was aware that the high cost of modern anaesthetic apparatus was often prohibitive for hospitals in developing countries , and at the time of his death he was working on a prototype of an inexpensive , but effective ventilator for the Third World . |
| 5 | He was also and excellent golfer whose handicap at one time reduced to one , and until his resignation due to ill health shortly before his death he was Secretary of Moseley Golf Club . |
| 6 | At the time of his death he was the heaviest man in Britain , weighing almost 53 stone ( 336kg ) and measuring 3ft 11in around the leg and 9ft 4in around the waist . |
| 7 | This general trend can be seen in microcosm in the career of Lord Burghley : at his death he was still assessed at £133. 6s. 8d. , the figure that he had returned before he became a peer . |
| 8 | Edmund was allowed to enter a monastery , where after his death he was buried in chains at his own request . |
| 9 | At his death he was owed £5 in salary from the Goldsmiths ( which was paid through the Mayor , then Alexander Lowe ) and £14 in " Schole wages " , the local subsidy . |
| 10 | A year before his death he was still reminding Du Camp about his surprise arrival with the young phenomenon , and still laughing as much as the day it had happened . |
| 11 | From 1655 until his death he was an alderman of London , and was sheriff in 1657–8 . |
| 12 | From 1958 to 1960 he was chairman of the faculty board of history and from 1962 to his death he was chairman of the governors of the Cambridge Institute of Education . |
| 13 | From 1672 until his death he was the mason to Gray 's Inn , London . |
| 14 | From 1941 until his death he was a fellow commoner of Trinity College , Cambridge . |
| 15 | At the time of his death he was vice-chairman of the company . |
| 16 | From the early 1920s until his death he was joint editor with H. Duncan Hendry of the Wren Society volumes . |
| 17 | At his death he was unknown as a poet ; on 8 December 1975 , the centenary of the wreck of the Deutschland , a plaque to his memory was unveiled in poets ' corner , Westminster Abbey , honouring a Roman Catholic there for the first time since John Dryden [ q.v . ] . |
| 18 | From 1960 to his death he was an editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic . |
| 19 | From 1962 until his death he was Dr Lee 's professor of anatomy in Oxford and honorary director of the Medical Research Council 's neuroendocrinology unit in the university . |
| 20 | At the time of his death he was living with his 26-year-old girlfriend , Helen Dyson . |