Example sentences of "[subord] his brother " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rustenburg , where his brother was running the Grand Hotel , offered the right sort of opportunity . |
| 2 | He drove past the Ecole Militaire , where his brother had begun his career as a soldier , in that uniform he still remembered so clearly . |
| 3 | Where his brother was mighty , he was weak . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For some reason , Abel 's offering seemed to go down much better with God than his brother 's did . |
| 8 | Alokut ( sic ) , the younger of the two , was even taller than his brother , as graceful and supple as a cougar . |
| 9 | Joseph Weston , at 23 , was some two″ taller than his brother , fair haired , smooth complexioned with a genteel bearing and a refined attitude . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Gary , although a born lawbreaker , was nicer natured than his brother , and was known to laugh and smile on occasions . |
| 12 | When the story opens the Marquis , Darnay 's father , and his wife are both dead , and the twin brother , Darnay 's uncle , has succeeded to the title and estate ; he proves himself to be even more callous and brutal , beneath a polished surface of ‘ civilization ’ ( his face is ‘ like a fine mask ’ ) , than his brother , and hates his nephew for his liberal principles and determination not to accept the inheritance of the estate whilst the state of French society is still so cruelly inequitable . |
| 13 | In fact , he was a better dancer than his brother — and a worthy partner for a damsel with stars in her eyes . |
| 14 | Richard was no less concerned than his brother by the constable 's inexplicable disappearance . |
| 15 | Much more choleric than his brother — who was never in those years very far from outright rudeness — Wilson offended people , and important people , right and left . |
| 16 | All this suggests that when he started work on Clairvaux Richard anticipated the Viscount 's hostility rather than his brother 's . |
| 17 | Of slighter build than his brother , at fifteen Joseph still had the unfinished face of a growing boy , but his features were already set in a more thoughtful , reflective cast than Chuck 's and there was a hint of his mother 's sensitivity in his smile . |
| 18 | A subordinate clause which functions as an adverb : Of Comparison In John is taller than his brother was at that age the clause than his brother was at that age qualifies is . |
| 19 | A subordinate clause which functions as an adverb : Of Comparison In John is taller than his brother was at that age the clause than his brother was at that age qualifies is . |
| 20 | the younger one they call tiny because he was the yo smaller than his brother but the other one you see and we did enormous business , especially during the war . |
| 21 | Thomas is five or six years younger than his brother , knocking seventy ; he 's tall , lean and a bit owlish . |
| 22 | Cos his brother is quite a lot shorter than him . |
| 23 | Until his brother took over the firm and promptly sold it to INCUBUS Oy . |
| 24 | Wordsworth had been exhausted by his efforts as early as 1804 ( see Ode to Duty ) , and he would probably have returned to conventional pieties and religion even if his brother 's death had not accelerated to process . |
| 25 | He seemed to have grown older , more mature — as if his brother 's burden of kingship had fallen on his shoulders also . |
| 26 | If Emerson had had the finance to develop a team properly , if his brother had been a better manager and if Emerson himself had not become frustrated as a driver by his car 's constant failures and retirements , if , in short , he had got his act together , he would quite possibly have made a first-class constructor and been hailed as a Brazilian Ferrari or Chapman . |
| 27 | Francie paused in rolling his cigarette and frowned as if his brother had said too much ; but Melanie did not notice . |
| 28 | His father had provided for this title to pass to Charles if his brother inherited the earldom of Arundel ; but when this occurred in 1677 Henry refused to give up the title , and Charles took the case to Chancery , in 1682 obtaining a celebrated decision in his favour by Heneage Finch , first Earl of Nottingham [ q.v . ] . |
| 29 | He hesitated ; best not to tell Jared of what Havvie Blaine had been saying of her ; he was fearful that if his brother knew he would do Havvie a mortal injury — Best perhaps to warn Mary Tunstall privately . |
| 30 | If his brother Ulf was involved , as stated by Saxo Grammaticus and possibly lost northern sources , he too must have made his peace with Cnut , who allegedly had him assassinated in a church at Roskilde . |