Example sentences of "to [pron] brother 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have toured France with my girlfriend in it , it took me to my brother 's wedding . |
| 2 | Even though in giving advice to her brother 's wife she had told her to forgive him for his infidelity and take him back , which is what Karenin was doing for her and exactly what she did n't want . |
| 3 | I knew her as a girl because my own parents being much occupied , my nurse used to take me to the north to her brother 's farm for holidays . |
| 4 | This time he would take Eliza with him all the way to her brother 's homestead at Yarrundi , so he could be sure of being in the area for at least three months . |
| 5 | As early as 1524 , Henry had given up all hope of Catherine bearing another child , and by the time he became infatuated with Anne Boleyn two years later , he had already begun to convince himself that his wife 's failure to give birth to a son who survived infancy was a sign that his marriage to his brother 's widow was sinful , in that it had broken the laws concerning affinity laid down in the Old Testament Book of Leviticus ( chapter 20 : verse 21 ) . |
| 6 | Mr Briggs , Mr Eyre 's lawyer , wrote to us telling us that our uncle had died , and left all his property , not to us , because of his quarrel with our father , but to his brother 's daughter . |
| 7 | True to his brother 's word , David had gone straight for the fish cakes . |
| 8 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 9 | ‘ Thomas did n't go to his brother 's funeral ? ’ |
| 10 | He would have liked to have gone to his brother 's funeral but he thought it would only have made matters worse . |
| 11 | ‘ We had heard ‘ t was so , of course , ’ muttered the priest in answer to his brother 's statement . |
| 12 | Quickly , Craig made his way upstairs to his brother 's room . |
| 13 | In the moment of crisis , Nicolae Andruţa at least made a show of coming to his brother 's aid and brought the cadets from the Securitate training school at Baneasa into the centre of Bucharest . |
| 14 | Swiftly Teclis went to his brother 's aid . |
| 15 | King Robert himself came to his brother 's aid , though with few more than 5,500 trained fighters . |
| 16 | Mackenzie died in London 6 April 1800 , his estate passing to his brother 's son , James Archibald Stuart-Wortley , later first Baron Wharncliffe [ q.v . ] . |
| 17 | The defendant claimed to have succeeded to his brother 's tenancy under section 87 of the Act of 1985 . |
| 18 | ‘ But , unfortunately , this undesirable side to your brother 's character only came to light after I 'd hired you . |
| 19 | ‘ When you went to your brother 's office this morning was there a cat in the room ? ’ |