Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] brother " in BNC.
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| 1 | She described again and again how they went to India in the early 1920s and returned in the Depression , his work as an electrician in the mines , poverty , living in digs with the old soldier who polished the shoes and got my brother to put the finishing kaybosh on them . |
| 2 | ‘ I left on Monday morning from Amsterdam , where I met my brother and his girlfriend , and we continued to Miami , and from Miami to St Maarten , from St Maarten to Anguilla where we arrived in the middle of the night . |
| 3 | Once I met my brother Michael in the Princess 's house . |
| 4 | I went home feeling miserable and ashamed for being such a fool but I did n't have long to indulge my self-pity , for when I entered our house I found my brother Jack and Mum quarrelling loudly . |
| 5 | ‘ When I found my brother dead , ’ he continued , ‘ my heaven fell to earth . ’ |
| 6 | Soon her mental health began to deteriorate , and after 1835 there were few lucid intervals ; nevertheless she outlived her brother and died in 1855 . |
| 7 | When Mary Shelley , in midle age , wrote compromising letters to a handsome blackmailer , Clairmont paid to have them stolen and destroyed , and she helped her brother 's family with money for many years . |
| 8 | Charles and Diana frequently visited their brother John 's lichen-covered grave in the Sandringham churchyard and mused about what he would have been like and whether they would have been born if he had lived . |
| 9 | Tom himself was barely responsive to Faye 's mood , and when the artist scolded her brother about it , he only growled , ‘ I 'm tired . |
| 10 | Walter Smith 's sister Dawn said she visited her brother in hospital before he died and he had squeezed her hand when she asked : ‘ Was it Mo ? ’ |
| 11 | On the final lap it was Robert who beat his brother to the Metropole corner , after the 180mph descent from Coleraine . |
| 12 | Jurors decided that he assaulted his brother , Robert , 30 , to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement and to the danger of his life by shooting him , pinning him to the ground and repeatedly hitting him on the head with bottles . |
| 13 | Ngo Van Dong stumbled to his feet and helped his brother up quickly at the approach of the squat figure of Phat , the overseer of their barrack . |
| 14 | In September 1066 , King Harold defeated his brother Tostig , who was attempting to regain the earldom of Northumbria with the help of the King of Norway , in a fierce and bloody battle on the banks of the river Derwent . |
| 15 | He invited his brother Carloman to join in the campaign , but they argued immediately , and Carloman returned to Burgundy , leaving Charles to continue alone in the reconquest of Aquitaine . |
| 16 | William Sherard spent many years abroad ( he was Consul at Smyrna from 1703–17 ) and enriched his brother James 's garden at Eltham with treasures from the Near East , which Dillenius recorded in his beautifully illustrated Hortus Elthamensis ( 1732 ) . |
| 17 | " Yes , you did ! " shouted his brother . |
| 18 | She caught his brother 's eye . |
| 19 | All be it was n't , well th th th the , the response , and you did n't actually , you mentioned his brother did n't you ? |
| 20 | He developed a tiresome cough which disturbed his brother 's rest , and became listless and depressed . |
| 21 | As he swabbed his brother 's temples with cold water , Mike muttered , ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 22 | He visited his brother and is believed to have taken his birth certifcate and passport . |
| 23 | ‘ I understand that it was you who found your brother 's body ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ And when you found your brother dead , cold as ice in that battlefield , and trailed back to England to confess your deeds to your parents , what then ? ’ |
| 25 | right and you mentioned your brother as well cos he 's a guy |
| 26 | Erm you mentioned your brother earlier and er Geoff from the sports and social club I 'd like to give them a call , do you have the numbers ? |
| 27 | Faye asked her brother archly as soon as they had exchanged a brief kiss in greeting . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , I think it was a pretty major conflict , was n't it ? ’ she asked her brother . |
| 29 | She cultivated lasting friendships through her correspondence , which mirrors the everyday circumstances in which the Lake poets worked , and she shared her brother 's widening circle of friends and visitors . |
| 30 | Madeleine avoided her brother 's eyes . |