Example sentences of "brother [coord] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Big Cassie was telling me a story about a couple of riveters that worked together , a family , brothers or cousins or something , and er she says that the guy was a riveter , he used to Maybe if the guy was on the inside holding , on the riveter on the outside this I 'm sure she said they were brothers , he would shout one of them from outside you know , shout his name and the boy would look through the hole you know , and he 's he would spit on him he would spit through the hole . |
| 2 | ‘ Neither my brothers or sister or I have any children , ’ said Pakeezah when her mother had finished telling the story . |
| 3 | if we 'd got any young brothers or sisters if we wanted we could take them with us , fine , so I said to me brother Vic who 's three years younger than me |
| 4 | I think it would be true to say that my two brothers and sister and I were products of the Anglican parochial system , at a time when almost all charitable work was carried on by the churches . |
| 5 | A certain number became war brides and in some cases war widows in 191418 , while others lost fathers , brothers and sweethearts or themselves remained unmarried . |
| 6 | In his rise to absolute power , neither Nicolae Ceauşescu 's brothers and sisters nor his in-laws played any significant role . |
| 7 | ‘ We must reassure our Protestant brothers and sisters that we will never be made to suffer for the British-sponsored murders of Catholics ’ . |
| 8 | Catrain first wrote to the French embassy in Moscow in 1980 asking it to tell his brothers and sisters that he was alive . |
| 9 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 10 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 11 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 12 | Many a time I had the hand-brush and so did my brothers and sisters but it never did us any harm . |
| 13 | I would have liked brothers and sisters but I do n't remember that I was ever lonely . |
| 14 | And give us back the pride and the credibility that we once took for granted as trade unionists but we allowed to slip away from us , and make us a force to be reckoned with , and send this government a message , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to tell us how to run the G M B , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to prevent us from protecting our brothers and sisters and we 'll no never ever allow anyone at Westminster to defeat the trade union movement . |
| 15 | We planned a party for our children , their spouses and our grandchildren ; our brothers and sisters and their children and grandchildren . |
| 16 | But they demonstrate a fairly clear hierarchy of claims to receive financial benefit from a relative which runs : spouse and/or children ; parents ; brothers and sisters and their children ; grandparents ; uncles and aunts . |
| 17 | Mr President , Congress , brothers and sisters and I hope you 're comrades and all after this . |
| 18 | The girls who had been ‘ initiated ’ were corrupting their brothers and sisters and there had been marked signs of mental deterioration in these children . |
| 19 | Thank you for our homes , our mums , dads , brothers and sisters and our families . |
| 20 | brothers and sisters or their children ; if none |
| 21 | ‘ You have n't got a brother or sister so you just do n't know , do you , how someone might feel ! |
| 22 | Anyway , this brother or cousin or whatever he is , could be important . |
| 23 | I mean , he must have been somebody 's brother or husband or something , but there was n't any crying or anything . |
| 24 | ‘ We are virtually prisoners here , my brother and I. Once we are confined in the Garden Tower and Denby is banished from our service , I fear we shall be denied all contact with the outside world . |
| 25 | My brother and I treat them as full brother and sister and we spoil them rotten . |
| 26 | He seems to be genuinely fond of our family — my younger brother and sister and myself — for he is forever giving us presents , very expensive presents , too , and it seemed churlish to refuse his invitation . |
| 27 | Er , mine died when I was nine and my mother has been my mother and a father to both myself my brother and sister and I feel she 's done just as good a job as I could of as my father could have done . |