Example sentences of "[subord] [pos pn] [adj] brother " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thoughtfully left the two letters on his desk , where his older brother discovered them . |
| 2 | In the course of this success he also travelled abroad on at least two occasions : in 1787 he visited Paris , where his youngest brother , the inventor and pamphleteer William Playfair [ q.v. ] , was then the agent of the Scioto Land Company of Ohio — and for whom he later made abortive designs for an ideal ‘ American City ’ — while in 1792–3 he was in Italy , where his itinerary included the Greek temples of Paestum . |
| 3 | Less , indeed , than my late brother 's good name , which I consider to be more important than any financial inconvenience you may be caused by the expiry of copyright . |
| 4 | As she had fantasised about Vitor rethinking , so her foster brother seemed to have concocted a dream world of his own , Ashley thought bemusedly . |
| 5 | Once her wee brother Jamie heard a pattering noise coming from Katy 's bedroom . |
| 6 | It may be as low as 500 ( 3 branches per 100 carbon atoms ) in high-pressure polyethylene , which in consequence has a lower density than its linear brother — high-density poly-ethylene , which has a molecular weight between branches approaching 3000 . |
| 7 | Of the branch companies , MMT Computing South East Ltd , which is more consultancy-oriented than its big brother , benefited from a buoyant insurance market . |
| 8 | George , who had more confidence than his elder brother , spoke . |
| 9 | But now that I have I can sense him as a personality much better than his biscuit-rich brother . |
| 10 | The medium had also told him that he had a gift , but he did n't discover it until my older brother , just after the war , contracted polio and was discharged from hospital with a paralysed arm and leg . |
| 11 | If my maternal brother is all sweetness and light , my father 's sister is a real dragon — a cold , formally distant aunt with whom no liberties are possible at all . |
| 12 | Joe started when Harry 's elbow caught him in the ribs as he said , ‘ I wonder if my illustrious brother will be as insufferable as he was during the Christmas holidays ? ’ |
| 13 | Richard indeed added that there was no way that he would go to Jerusalem unless his younger brother went with him . |
| 14 | Oh mum I 've decided not to sleep at Helena 's because her nice brother 's gon na be there ! |
| 15 | We liked to visit Mr Macauley 's shop because his furious brother George played cricket for Yorkshire . |
| 16 | ‘ He deserves a proper thrashing , ’ Cissie protested , fiercely indignant that she had been unable to defend herself while her cowardly brother took delight in whipping her . |
| 17 | The 1895 visit to Swindon , in place of the summer term at St. Paul 's , repeats an earlier pattern in Edward 's life between schools before he won a scholarship to Battersea Grammar School and while his youngest brother Julian was born into the already over-crowded house at 61 Shelgate Road . |
| 18 | Alexander has n't played since his younger brother Ben was killed in a car crash in June . |
| 19 | Sophia married Ernst August of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1629–1698 ) in 1658 , after his elder brother had withdrawn an offer . |
| 20 | ( ‘ … As my dear brother said only last week , evenings spent with actresses … ’ ) |
| 21 | When my youngest brother was born and I was between eight and nine years old , my troubles began in earnest . |
| 22 | When my youngest brother was born , all the birds went away . |
| 23 | She had written about a brilliant girl who in spite of two years of blindness would one day represent Spain as her illustrious brother had done . |
| 24 | Pamela 's major qualities were courage , humour and broadmindedness , although the last of these was put to the test , first when her only brother became a Roman Catholic , then when her only daughter married one . |
| 25 | Tragedy hit them when her youngest brother died of cancer when he was thirteen . |
| 26 | For her it had been from the tender age of five , when her own brother and male ‘ friends ’ of a single-parent family abused her . |
| 27 | When her younger brother was being bullied it was she who leapt to his defence and up-ended his tormentor in a matter of seconds . |
| 28 | When her younger brother tried to challenge her inheritance from her mother , ‘ I told him that though he was now the heir , as being son , yet I was two years the elder by my birth , and though he had got the birthright , yet I ought to have a share of her blessing . ’ |
| 29 | Yet he recorded that , when his elder brother died in a skating accident at the age of thirteen , James and his sister , Maggie , played together under the table on which the coffin was lying . |
| 30 | Things had gone seriously wrong for Derek Young when his younger brother ran out into the road , was hit by a car , and suffered severe brain damage from which he never recovered , spending the rest of his life as a vegetable in a long-stay hospital . |