Example sentences of "[prep] his brother 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gloucester 's actions after his brother 's death are traditionally seen as the triumph of an over-mighty subject , and it follows that Edward IV had been making a rod for his own back when he allowed Gloucester to become lord of the north . |
| 2 | Gloucester 's actions after his brother 's death are traditionally seen as the triumph of an over-mighty subject , and it follows that Edward IV had been making a rod for his own back when he allowed Gloucester to become lord of the north . |
| 3 | Despite his brother 's joyous reception of this confidence , Edward knew a sense of foreboding . |
| 4 | His crisis is precipitated by word of his transfer to another school ; he staggers towards resigning from the school he 's at , and maybe from the profession , and then bunks off for a long afternoon 's superlager , home-brew and whisky with his brother , who is on the dole , and two of his brother 's mates . |
| 5 | When he has been a Christian for three years , we find him , in the pages of his brother 's diary , reading The Epistle to the Romans , the greatest exposition in Scripture of the themes of Original Sin , Grace and Justification by Faith . |
| 6 | It is twenty-two years since I read that letter , first published in Warnie 's selection of his brother 's correspondence , and on and off I have been thinking it over . |
| 7 | Jacob reveals by his first words to Esau that he belongs still to the world of their stiff courtesy , and not yet to that of his brother 's gay abandon . |
| 8 | Theo came on a visit , alarmed by the growing despondence of his brother 's letters . |
| 9 | Well aware of his brother 's infatuation with Joan and seeing no reason to discourage it , he regarded Anne 's arrival at the sanctuary as a step in the right direction . |
| 10 | He was , it seemed , fully aware of his brother 's attachment to Joan . |
| 11 | He was able to complete his conquest of his brother 's duchy without interruption , and to imprison for life — perhaps to blind — the only member of his family who deserved the protection of the Church . |
| 12 | When the news of his brother 's disappearance reached the White Tower , Teclis refused to believe his brother was dead . |
| 13 | One the manager of a tiling manufacturers in Swindon , the other a colleague of his brother 's : neither of the men he 'd wished to know better . |
| 14 | Only eight at the time of his brother 's accession in 1461 , he spent the early years of Edward IV 's reign in relative obscurity , overshadowed by his elder brother George duke of Clarence . |
| 15 | Edward IV made a first attempt to remedy the situation within weeks of his brother 's sixteenth birthday , when he gave Richard the land of Robert lord Hungerford , lying mainly in Somerset and Wiltshire . |
| 16 | Although the duke was later to acquire further interests of his own in Wales he never resumed the position of his brother 's leading representative there . |
| 17 | It would also threaten the stability of the polity itself , and Gloucester 's public pronouncements in this period consistently present him as the defender of his brother 's achievements against the machinations of the Woodvilles . |
| 18 | But , as a key figure in his brother 's polity , Gloucester probably knew most of his brother 's leading servants . |
| 19 | The support of his brother 's men gave him a nexus of servants throughout the country , the value of which can be seen in his measures against Sir Edward Woodville . |
| 20 | They may simply not yet have accepted that Gloucester now had his own ambitions beyond the preservation of his brother 's polity . |
| 21 | It was only after the rebellion of autumn 1483 had demonstrated that Richard had lost the support of a significant number of his brother 's men , that it made political sense to indulge in general criticism of Edward IV 's reign . |
| 22 | Terry knew by the sound of his brother 's voice that he had to do as he was told . |
| 23 | Because of his brother 's hanging , he assumed the mantle of laibon . |
| 24 | A Guardian stalwart made a telling observation about him : ‘ While Ian Wolldridge might spend hours searching for the good line , Hugh will spend the time searching for the truth ’ — and suddenly I saw McIlvanney almost as if he were a bare-knuckle fighter in one of his brother 's novels . |
| 25 | The rain was pouring when Ebenezer banged the door-knocker of his brother 's house in Denmark Place . |
| 26 | His reputation dwindled in the shadow of his brother 's achievements during the years between Marconi and World War I , and although his journalism remained incisive , it was increasingly tainted with bitterness at the perceived economic and political decay of Edwardian England . |
| 27 | Yet Fernand had spoken openly of the war and of his brother 's death without showing a trace of rancour or a desire for revenge . |
| 28 | He had been thrown violently forwards , the blood which had spurted from nose and mouth splattering the base of his brother 's coffin . |
| 29 | Only eight at the time of his brother 's accession in 1461 , he spent the early years of Edward IV 's reign in relative obscurity , overshadowed by his elder brother George duke of Clarence . |
| 30 | Edward IV made a first attempt to remedy the situation within weeks of his brother 's sixteenth birthday , when he gave Richard the land of Robert lord Hungerford , lying mainly in Somerset and Wiltshire . |