Example sentences of "brother [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't sure whether she was referring to her brother or to Ward . |
| 2 | Her response to nature had a subtlety beyond the range either of her brother or of Coleridge , and indeed was a response altogether different from theirs . |
| 3 | He showed marked rivalry towards his younger brother and despite achieving normal results on a developmental test his social and emotional behaviour was very immature . |
| 4 | ( c. 1105–1184 ) , bishop of Lisieux , was born near Seés in Normandy between 1105 and 1109 , the second son of Hardouin de Neuville and an unnamed mother ; a younger brother and at least one sister completed the family . |
| 5 | Elizabeth Woodville , informed of the arrest of her brother and of her son by a former marriage , as well as of the young king 's faithful chamberlain , was beside herself with anger and anxiety . |
| 6 | They made a short visit , I suspect that they were going on to M.J. 's [ Margaret Jourdain 's ] brother and like Dulcia [ in A House and Its Head ] expected to come by a good deal of refreshment in the course of their peregrinations . |
| 7 | Quite what that meant is unclear and perhaps was unclear then ( the terms of the 817 Ordinatio would have needed updating anyway since Pippin I had died ) ; but the one thing that was perfectly clear was that Lothar was abrogating the 839 division-plan. |
| 8 | Delightfully witty studies are given by Leon Sinden as the brother and by Neville Barber as the most waspish of the Oxford dons who gang up against the female intruder . |
| 9 | She had been different from her brother and from his friends who used to visit , make themselves at home in my clean room , on the clean bed , delighted to find a video and a cassette recorder and cassettes , who ate my nice food and listened to loud music and swallowed the drink they brought with them . |
| 10 | To anyone who knew Lewis in the second half of his life , and remarked his preference for boys ' books such as R. M. Ballantyne or Captain Marryat over the so-called ‘ moderns ’ , there can be no doubt that he was here addressing a warning not just to his brother but to himself . |
| 11 | For example , he would have been interested in the fact that the English word ‘ uncle ’ can be used in speaking both of one 's mother 's brother and one 's father 's brother while in Swedish , for instance , two different words are used . |