Example sentences of "brother ['s] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The next brother 's wife said she would do this .
2 I thought I would get a job there but I could n't for a few months and er , my wife and two children joined me there and my brother 's wife joined us there , and two of us bought the house in Luton .
3 As we walked she told me how she had always resisted her brother 's attempts to persuade her to emigrate to Pakistan .
4 Did your brother 's music wake you earlier ? ’
5 Menna was never well in his head or heart — Tawaret did not smile on his birth , and the torture he experienced at his brother 's hands pushed him forever into a lonely land inside himself … ’
6 But something in his brother 's petition alerted him , and he pushed aside the quire of his new score .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Yet if he , just a man , could not find it in his heart to condemn his brother or the boy who had used his brother 's weaknesses to lure him to his death , how could this God of love of his childhood destroy so savagely and so arbitrarily ?
10 Your brother 's death left you heiress to Tracy Castle , and I intend taking it for the King . ’
11 Your brother 's death means I can .
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