Example sentences of "[subord] [pos pn] brother " in BNC.
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| 1 | When her husband died , Elisabeth returned to the Fatherland , where her brother , driven mad by syphilis , was immured in a lunatic asylum . |
| 2 | Michael Brown 's sister stayed with a family where her brother was able to visit . |
| 3 | He saw her breasts spilling across her ribs and that chip missing from her tooth where her brother hit her with a stone . |
| 4 | Becky is said to be ‘ comfortable ’ in the special burns unit of Frenchay hospital , Bristol , where her brother is also being treated . |
| 5 | Rustenburg , where his brother was running the Grand Hotel , offered the right sort of opportunity . |
| 6 | He drove past the Ecole Militaire , where his brother had begun his career as a soldier , in that uniform he still remembered so clearly . |
| 7 | Where his brother was mighty , he was weak . |
| 8 | Fourth , the Roman choreographer Pietro Sodi had worked at the Comédie ltalienne from around 1746 , where his brother Charles ( C.1715–88 ) was violinist and composer . |
| 9 | ‘ Where your brother was … |
| 10 | Once my brother had warned me . |
| 11 | One strange thing is that the buzz is worse when the volume pot is turned half-way on and gets less noisy when full up , but even then it 's still noisier than my brother 's Squier which cost less than the pickups on my guitar ! |
| 12 | I 'm fifteen , six years younger than my brother Chuck , you know . |
| 13 | He had been about four years old , and although he was younger than my brother , they always got on very well together and were heartbroken when the time came for them to part . |
| 14 | Although her brother , Bert , was now employed by a local fisherman , Arnold Spence , and could do no more than a few day 's work at Four Winds now and then , nevertheless her new arrangements left Harriet free to work outside herself and this regular exercise had a calming effect , releasing her from a great deal of inner tension . |
| 15 | She had fought him off like a veritable wildcat when he 'd slung a few well-deserved insults at her , and then had had the gall to deny she had turned traitor , although her brother held his castle for Matilda , and God only knew what she , herself , had done for the Empress . |
| 16 | Firstly , it seems to have been well established at the time that Darrel was having some sort of incestuous relationship with his sister , a woman several years younger but only slightly less wayward than her brother . |
| 17 | She was older than her brother and she wore a black lace cap over her grey hair . |
| 18 | She hinted that she could be of more help to them than her brother , provided that they left him alone in his present state of health . |
| 19 | She is smaller than her brother , with a rich mane of chestnut hair which she wears to the waist . |
| 20 | The look Madeleine gave him would have withered anyone other than her brother . |
| 21 | A year or two younger than her brother she had refused every match offered her , maintaining instead a state of determined independence . |
| 22 | She 's an even weaker fool than her brother , but she 's going to be useful to me . |
| 23 | Nephthys was younger than her brother , but seemed older , and more sure of herself . |
| 24 | By eleven o'clock , however , feeling older than her brother rather than younger , Leith would n't have minded going to bed . |
| 25 | Although his brother later made the excuse that it was too hot that day , late November , it seems far more likely that he simply got drunk . |
| 26 | Although his brother , the Rev. Arthur Oakeley ( then squire of Lydham ) does not appear to have approved of the proposed Bishop 's Castle Railway and did not attend the Opening , Commander Henry Oakeley , R.N. ( Retd. ) was very interested . |
| 27 | For some reason , Abel 's offering seemed to go down much better with God than his brother 's did . |
| 28 | Alokut ( sic ) , the younger of the two , was even taller than his brother , as graceful and supple as a cougar . |
| 29 | Joseph Weston , at 23 , was some two″ taller than his brother , fair haired , smooth complexioned with a genteel bearing and a refined attitude . |
| 30 | Those of the school staff who remembered Prince Charles had immediately noticed that Richard was a much more outgoing and confident boy than his brother had been . |