Example sentences of "his brother [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his brothers Gary , Phil and Dennis , he was once part of a fresh-faced showbusiness act , the Crosby Boys , which lasted until 1959 . |
| 2 | One of Abu Khadra 's first memories — and one that he went back to again and again — was of walking with his brothers Rabah and Anwar through his father 's olive grove in Jaffa to visit the house of his uncles . |
| 3 | In 1890 he and his brothers Arthur and Leonard founded the merchant-banking firm of Cunliffe Brothers , in Cornhill . |
| 4 | His brothers Simon and Peter Eubanks ( Chris dropped the s , perhaps to give himself some breathing space ) were both fighters , but Chris took a somewhat different approach . |
| 5 | Known relatives of Cenwulf are his brothers Ceolwulf and Cuthred , his queen Ælfthryth , daughter Cwenthryth , Cuthred 's son Cenwald , and Cyneberht and Abbot Cunwald , who appear in charters . |
| 6 | Firemen found the bodies of Paul McPherson , 4 , and his brothers Hugh , 3 , and James , 1 , in their beds in their flat in the town 's Auchendarroch Street . |
| 7 | ( d. 1238 ) , bishop of Coventry and Lichfield , was in all likelihood a native of Stainby , Lincolnshire , where his brothers Gilbert and Master William of Stainby held land . |
| 8 | His response had been to build up the power of his supporters the Nevilles : Richard earl of Warwick and his brothers John , who was made earl of Northumberland , and George , who became archbishop of York . |
| 9 | His response had been to build up the power of his supporters the Nevilles : Richard earl of Warwick and his brothers John , who was made earl of Northumberland , and George , who became archbishop of York . |
| 10 | Eight Barhams taxed there included his brothers Richard ( £15 on goods ) and William ( £8 ) ; Henry , a wage earner , was probably the son , though listed as servant , of Thomas ( £10 in goods ) . |
| 11 | Like his brothers Richard agreed to accept rather less than he had been offered the previous autumn : half the revenues of Aquitaine , but this time only two residences , and apparently unfortified ones . |
| 12 | Next in age to him was his brother Frank , born in 1770 ; then followed his sister Ann ( or Nancy ) , dearly loved and lost early , then his brothers Luke and George . |
| 13 | [ Alexander Haldane , Memoirs of the Lives of R. Haldane , of Airthrey , and of his Brother J. A. Haldane , 1852 ; anon. , A Biographical Sketch of Alexander Haldane … communicated to the ‘ Record ’ of July 28 , 1882 ; J. A. L. Haldane , The Haldanes of Gleneagles , 1929 ; information from Dr I. S. Rennie . ] |
| 14 | He was referring , of course , to his Brother Brushes , who exhibited annually , as did he , at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh . |
| 15 | It is clear even at this early date that he had his eyes on a brigade structure , because his brother William , ‘ Bill ’ , was in process of raising 2 SAS Regiment in Algeria . |
| 16 | We should pause , as we did for his brother William , to contemplate Thomas Titford 's state in 1786 : a widower , with one 17-year old daughter who seemed healthy enough , one who was to be constantly gripped by fits , and at least three children previously dead in infancy . |
| 17 | Later photographs of Charles and his brother William would show two men-about-town in their twenties . |
| 18 | He was clearly very highly regarded in the district , and his funeral was even attended by a representative of the London Titfords in the person of Ernest William , the deceased 's nephew , son of his brother William . |
| 19 | His brother William made a good deputy in most respects and could deal with much of the day-to-day management of the properties ; but he was very much a stay-at-home character , immersed in his books and studies , and the more distant affairs tended to get neglected . |
| 20 | The family were to be closely associated with Gloucester in the 1470s , but in the 1460s they were Neville men , and Thomas and his brother William suffered forfeiture in 1470 for their support of Warwick and Clarence . |
| 21 | This was in Lancashire , where Gloucester 's authority in the duchy of Lancaster confronted the influence of Thomas lord Stanley and his brother William . |
| 22 | Ademar had become the undisputed head of the Taillefer family after the death of his brother William a few years earlier . |
| 23 | They had no children , but on the death of his brother William in 1780 he adopted William 's four-year-old daughter . |
| 24 | There was a strong crusading tradition in the Geneville family , extending back to the mid-twelfth century : Geoffrey and his brother William duly accompanied Edward on crusade in 1270 , but returned before him . |
| 25 | Cary established himself in business c .1783 at 188 Strand in London , subsequently trading at Johnson 's Court , Fleet Street ( c .1782 ) , 181 Strand ( from c .1791 ) , and 86 St James 's Street ( from January 1820 , when fire destroyed his workshop and his brother William 's adjacent premises ) . |
| 26 | Although generally working independently , Cary did collaborate notably with John Wallis , who seemingly inspired his diversification into publishing c .1783/4 , with his brother William in globe production and his brother Francis in engraving , and , most significantly , with William Smith [ q.v. ] and others in developing and publishing geological cartography . |
| 27 | He was court-martialled and on 3 May 1916 he was executed by a firing squad at Kilmainham Gaol , Dublin , as on 4 May was his brother William , who had acted as his aide-de-camp . |
| 28 | He was trained as a mason , and in 1697 he and his brother William contracted to rebuild the nave and tower of St Mary 's church , Warwick , which had been destroyed in the great fire of 1694 , to the design of Sir William Wilson . |
| 29 | The Teulon family was of Huguenot origin and retained an allegiance to this French connection ; Samuel Sanders and his brother William Milford ( also an architect ) became directors of the French Hospital in south Hackney , London . |
| 30 | His brother William Bullock [ q.v. ] became an artist , naturalist , explorer , and museum proprietor . |