Example sentences of "his brother ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that he did n't know its history — he had been part of it , if only as a silent witness of his brothers ' refusal to join the Fenian organisation which had started trying to recruit the young men of their day . |
| 2 | He developed a tiresome cough which disturbed his brother 's rest , and became listless and depressed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Having now documented Louis 's address and instrument business near the Pont Marie Therese for the years 1691,1692 and 1712 , while the other Louis lived on the rue Marmousets and evidently worked in his brother Nicolas 's atelier ( according to common practice , he would have used his brother 's stamp ) , we can conclude that the former made instruments stamped ‘ L/Hotteterre ’ with a fleur-de-lis above , whereas instruments by the latter would have been made in the workshop of Nicolas Hotteterre and stamped ‘ N/Hotteterre ’ with a six-pointed star above . |
| 5 | Ami Popper , a 21-year-old Israeli civilian dressed in an Army uniform and carrying his brother 's Army-issue M-16 rifle , drove to the area from his home in Rishon Le Zion and rounded up for a bogus security check a group of Gazans , whom he then sprayed with bullets , killing seven and wounding nine others . |
| 6 | Why would Sara say that she had seen Alfred leaving his brother 's yard at about the time of the crime if she had not ? |
| 7 | Because of his brother 's hanging , he assumed the mantle of laibon . |
| 8 | AFTER six years of tortuous legal battles , Mr Thomas Mathew was yesterday granted permission in the High Court for a full trial in his action against the solicitor who held his brother 's will for £4 million . |
| 9 | ‘ And the next step was to build houses around his brother 's pottery . ’ |
| 10 | The music was simply put into cardboard boxes and left in his brother 's basement . |
| 11 | After the Stanleys ' ambivalent behaviour in 1469–71 Edward may have seen his brother 's presence in the region as a useful counterbalance , but it is unlikely that he wanted to see the Stanleys totally eclipsed . |
| 12 | After the Stanleys ' ambivalent behaviour in 1469–71 Edward may have seen his brother 's presence in the region as a useful counterbalance , but it is unlikely that he wanted to see the Stanleys totally eclipsed . |
| 13 | He said after the funeral that his brother 's marriage had been a shot-gun affair never consummated . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Whilst he missed his brother 's company , he welcomed the opportunity for being alone with his thoughts . |
| 16 | Gloucester may subsequently have joined the king in pursuit of the rebels , but the next firm reference to his presence in his brother 's company is not until July , when he accompanied the king into Yorkshire to deal with the rebellion of Warwick 's kinsman lord Fitzhugh of Ravensworth . |
| 17 | Gloucester may subsequently have joined the king in pursuit of the rebels , but the next firm reference to his presence in his brother 's company is not until July , when he accompanied the king into Yorkshire to deal with the rebellion of Warwick 's kinsman lord Fitzhugh of Ravensworth . |
| 18 | When the news of his brother 's disappearance reached the White Tower , Teclis refused to believe his brother was dead . |
| 19 | Notwithstanding , my lords , I here deliver my son — and his brother 's life with him — into your hands , and of you shall I require them before God and man . |
| 20 | His elder brother , Major Sir Hugo Berowne , had been killed in Northern Ireland and Paul Berowne had married his brother 's fiancee within five months of the car accident which had killed his wife . |
| 21 | True to his brother 's word , David had gone straight for the fish cakes . |
| 22 | Nominated by his dying brother as Lord High Protector of the realm during the boy king 's minority , he had just returned from Scotland where , at the head of a powerful army , he had re-taken Berwick in his brother 's name and thus nullified the Scottish King 's threat of a full-scale invasion . |
| 23 | The first time he had to include his brother 's name in an anecdote , his voice hardened a little , but soon he was talking much more easily , telling her of picnics and expeditions and even fights they had had with each other and with the Italian sons of their mother 's friends and relations . |
| 24 | I knew you would be James because he said his brother 's name and , I know it 's Keith , it must be James |
| 25 | He was , it seemed , fully aware of his brother 's attachment to Joan . |
| 26 | He sued the defendants on the grounds of their vicarious liability for his brother 's negligence and breach of statutory duty . |
| 27 | Here lies Garcia , King of Galicia and Portugal , taken captive by his brother 's craft . |
| 28 | Terry knew by the sound of his brother 's voice that he had to do as he was told . |
| 29 | She nodded her head before adding , ‘ But a man ca n't marry his brother 's wife . |
| 30 | She had loved Connor from the day she set eyes on him ; and he loved her too , though as long as she was his brother 's wife , he would never admit it . |