Example sentences of "[pron] [adj -er] brother " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me elder brother was in the First World War and he er he got married and er she was a flighty sort of girl and she was n't attending to er Mabel properly , the little girl , she had a girl and a boy . |
| 2 | One of a family of six and me elder brother was me bro me dad had a little business in the keys in and er they were hard times and me elder brother we used to go and work for him because me dad said he must and er from , after school I used to go and perhaps do the errands or a bit of filing , the odd jobs and all that sort of thing and I grew up with locks and keys and files from twelve , even before I left school . |
| 3 | One of a family of six and me elder brother was me bro me dad had a little business in the keys in and er they were hard times and me elder brother we used to go and work for him because me dad said he must and er from , after school I used to go and perhaps do the errands or a bit of filing , the odd jobs and all that sort of thing and I grew up with locks and keys and files from twelve , even before I left school . |
| 4 | And my elder brother , he had told me the same thing — ‘ Babi , you are not listening to us so we are not responsible for anything . ’ |
| 5 | My elder brother , one of the last O-level year , pretends to sneer at my GCSE passes , but I 'm glad we did n't have to go through all the cramming and regurgitation of the old exams . |
| 6 | I should explain here that I am one of two brothers — and that my elder brother , Leonard , was killed during the Southern African War while I was still a boy . |
| 7 | My elder brother was amazed . |
| 8 | The pilot of that sixth aircraft was my elder brother , Pilot Officer Thomas Atherton . |
| 9 | You may be my elder brother , but for once you 're going to do as you 're told ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Well , he hated the idea of dividing the family property , so he left it all to my elder brother . |
| 11 | ‘ My elder brother , ’ he said quietly . |
| 12 | ‘ Take my elder brother , ’ said Peacock . |
| 13 | One of the last guys to come along was this enthusiastic young man who was to play my elder brother , even though he was younger than me . |
| 14 | " My father has a property in Somerset but my elder brother will farm it . |
| 15 | There 's a girl my elder brother wants to marry , and my family want it , too , but she likes me better , and I like her , and her parents wo n't force her . |
| 16 | Mother and Father had retired hurt , along with my younger brother , Fergus , and they spent an unhappy night wrestling with the toils of sea-sickness . |
| 17 | I think of Mark as my younger brother . |
| 18 | My Dad met us at the airport and , of course , the first thing that I wanted to do was to see my younger brother Russell . |
| 19 | Russell , my younger brother , also showed some promise but was hindered by a knee problem . |
| 20 | There had been a recent incident involving my younger brother , Russell , who had been at a party and on his way home been accosted by a group of men that he knew , who were in a car . |
| 21 | My younger brother is holding my left hand but he is only vaguely present , shadowy . |
| 22 | In all probability this is my earliest memory , and the infants are my younger brother and sister . |
| 23 | Sunday was bath-night , so my big sister Etty would be given the task of looking for my younger brother Jerry , Anna , the youngest of our family , and myself . |
| 24 | ‘ I met him through my younger brother who played football with him . |
| 25 | When I was six years old , my sister Pat eight , and my younger brother Alan three , war broke out . |
| 26 | He seems to be genuinely fond of our family — my younger brother and sister and myself — for he is forever giving us presents , very expensive presents , too , and it seemed churlish to refuse his invitation . |
| 27 | I ca n't live off my mother and my younger brother : I 'm supposed to look after them and not the other way round . |
| 28 | My younger brother and sister were in the same room , sleeping in bunk beds . |
| 29 | And I was brought up virtually without a , well he felt as if he was n't a father , he felt as though he was my younger brother all the time ! |
| 30 | Tony is my younger brother , and his wife , Lisa , is my secretary . |