Example sentences of "that his brother " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said after the funeral that his brother 's marriage had been a shot-gun affair never consummated . |
| 2 | These are judges who accept ‘ no grovelling on the part of prisoners ’ , even those who play on having a relative in the RUC ( and we did come across a policeman who believed that his brother had been treated leniently in court as a result of this connection with the force ) . |
| 3 | He also had to recognize that his brother was an unselfish person ; so that the axiom , ‘ only religious people are unselfish ’ did not wash . |
| 4 | Michael saw that his brother 's mind had moved — not far , hardly at ail , but still he had moved . |
| 5 | Next came a court battle in which Earl Ruby won control of the gun that his brother Jack used to kill Lee Harvey Oswald , two days after the assassin 's arrest . |
| 6 | Cain was jealous and upset to think that his brother was more highly favoured with God . |
| 7 | Charles was horrified , conscious that his brother was now disqualified as a man of God from leading an invasion , and , as a celibate , from having a legitimate heir . |
| 8 | And he glanced down at Changez 's duff hand again as if to reconfirm that his brother had really sent over a cripple as a husband for his only daughter . |
| 9 | He and his brother Jonna got on better now that Jonna had grown up , but George knew that his brother would always be jealous of him as the elder . |
| 10 | Theo 's fears that his brother was on a self-destructive course must have been at least partly eased by this letter . |
| 11 | Worried that his brother might be close to a nervous collapse , he refrained from spelling it out bluntly , but what it amounted to was this : Do n't kick the bourgeois while they are still feeding you . |
| 12 | Richard came forward then to formally ask for her hand in a pavan but , observing that his brother was conversing with his elected bride and catching the latter 's meaningful glance , he cheerfully turned away and asked his sister Cecily instead . |
| 13 | They exchanged meaningful glances from time to time — and it was apparent that his brother was as troubled as he by the disturbing events . |
| 14 | Alan explains that his brother is entitled to at least five weeks ' notice or seven weeks ' pay ‘ in lieu ’ of notice , that is , £600 . |
| 15 | It said that Kambona had claimed that his brother Otini had been arrested for writing an editorial ‘ in favour of human rights and the liberty of the individual ’ . |
| 16 | When he heard that his brother had returned and had been welcomed back he was angry . |
| 17 | Sead used to weigh 12 stone … now he 's half that His brother was 13 stone … he 's down to 9 stone |
| 18 | FIVE-year-old survivor John Tomlins still does not know that his brother and sister died in the ferry tragedy . |
| 19 | ‘ The lady informs me , ’ said the Substitute as they drove away and the Captain reported the husband 's silence , ‘ that his brother is a bad lot , the bane of her life , that she would never have married Salvatore — who , I should tell you , is a saint , a veritable saint , when considered on his own — if she had known she 'd be stuck with the terrible Antonio as well . |
| 20 | The leather trade was one which did not take a great deal of effort to run successfully but then Craig believed that his brother had a hand in the unprofitable deals Uncle Thomas had made and had profited from them . |
| 21 | The extent to which some university appointments were political spoils in the eighteenth century is suggested by the demand made in 1714 by Murray of Cringletie , an administration candidate for the representation of the county of Peebles , who made it a condition of his coming forward that his brother should be given the vacant chair of church history in the University of Edinburgh . |
| 22 | As the narrator of The Prisoner of Zenda , Rassendyll is at first inclined to be deprecating about the relationships between ‘ the palace at Strelsau or the castle of Zenda and Number 305 Park Lane , W. ’ He is well aware that his brother , Lord Burlesdon , prefers to forget the misbehaviour , in 1733 , of Rudolf the Third of Ruritania and the Countess Amelia , wife of the fifth Earl of Burlesdon and twenty-second Baron Rassendyll , which resulted in the transmission of certain characteristics ( ’ long , sharp , straight noses and a quantity of dark red hair ’ as well as blue eyes rather than the dark hue more common to the Rassendylls ) in several generations of the family . |
| 23 | It was while he was away in England , crowning his wife as queen and seeking further material support for the war , that his brother , Thomas , duke of Clarence , was defeated and killed at Bauge , in Anjou , by a Franco-Scottish force on 22 March 1421 . |
| 24 | I mean , the fact that his brother was in prison while you were … ? ’ |
| 25 | Later that day he drew a note of credit on an obliging Mr Crump for fifty pounds , explaining that his brother , ‘ The Earl ’ , and himself were re-organising their banking arrangements , he would understand about these matters , certain they did these things better in Liverpool , great embarrassment . |
| 26 | The applicant was refused entry as a student although he had written evidence that the course fees had been paid , that his brother ( resident in the UK ) would maintain him , and that his employers in Mauritius had given him a year 's leave for study . |
| 27 | 3 Brother with Down 's syndrome — Close family involvement in the management of this child 's asthma is important , and this will be less easy because of the care that his brother also needs . |
| 28 | Rory thought now that his brother must have exaggerated the story , made it more horrific than it really had been , and he certainly did n't believe that Lachy had run away to sea just so that he could wear an eye-patch and pretend he was a pirate . |
| 29 | A note arrived from his mother , saying that his brother Cuthbert was going to marry Mercy Chant . |
| 30 | A fragment of the poet Alcaeus ( 50 Diehl 27 Lobel-Page ) has been taken to imply that his brother Antimenides fought against a gigantic Jew during one of the two sieges of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar . |