Example sentences of "[adv] his brother 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | If in this respect Gloucester was still very much his brother 's agent , it is clear that his closeness to the king had already made him a person of some consequence . |
| 2 | If in this respect Gloucester was still very much his brother 's agent , it is clear that his closeness to the king had already made him a person of some consequence . |
| 3 | Gloucester 's power was largely his brother 's creation and that power underpinned his success in 1483 . |
| 4 | Gloucester 's power was largely his brother 's creation and that power underpinned his success in 1483 . |
| 5 | Dr Kavanagh , who wears a beret above fierce eyebrows and is known in New York as Frankie the Mechanic because he fixes the neighbours ' cars , is on permanent red alert over his brother 's reputation . |
| 6 | Stirling himself took over his brother 's flat again where the floor would be littered with maps and bits of equipment . |
| 7 | Hilary Seymour-Strachey had readily agreed , for , though he had not his brother 's absorbing and exclusive interest in money — still , he always had a use for it , and the thought was beginning to occur to him that he might soon have a woman and child to support , in addition to himself . |
| 8 | In fact it was his identical twin , whom nobody knew about , and who had come back to tidy up his brother 's affairs . |
| 9 | But they deleted allegations that he tried to gouge out his brother 's eyes , tried to strangle him and tried to murder him . |
| 10 | In these he criticizes severely his brother 's régime as ‘ arbitrary despotism ’ and accuses Joseph of wishing to ‘ dispose despotically and capriciously of the lands , persons and goods of his subjects ’ . |
| 11 | Just the same , she had experienced an uneasy moment when he spoke of the unnamed traitor who had brought about his brother 's death . |