deathbed

Possessives

• mother: Then on his mother's deathbed he decided to return to making music.
• father: On his father's deathbed in 1782, Boswell succeeded to the family estate of Auchinleck.
• uncle: IX Last belated figure in that grouping round my uncle's deathbed is my aunt.
• brother: She was carried to her brother's deathbed by angels and reposed as an anchoress in the Apennines.

Modifies a noun

• confession: More than thirty years later, in May 1988, a mystery man claimed his father had made a deathbed confession to the crime.
• conversion: Labor's was a deathbed conversion to help save the party.
• scene: There are no such constraints in radio drama, which over the past fortnight offered more deathbed scenes than the average TV medical soap.
• mortgage: Try actually asking for physical material on the deathbed mortgage and then get back to us.
• vision: With modern medical techniques, deathbed visions like these have become far less common.
• grant: But Harold won the throne in 1066 through a deathbed grant by Edward and election by the nobles.