Example sentences of "[subord] her young [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 7 Jill 's height is four times greater than her younger sister 's , who is x cm high . |
| 2 | Tiller waited until her younger sister was capable of putting over a song and dance , and then sent them off touring the country as a double act . |
| 3 | Orders which allow a wife to remain in occupation of the marital home until her youngest child leaves , in effect , put off her housing problems until middle age , when she is often without an income or sufficient capital to make continued owner-occupation a realistic alternative . |
| 4 | If her young sister needed her help , advice or support she would return instantly — a situation even more tenable since Sebastian Grantham 's generous offer to settle her present flight bills ! |
| 5 | She foraged in it immediately to see if her young supporter had been able to smuggle through a twist of tobacco . |
| 6 | After this , Pakeezah 's brothers went to Pakistan while her younger sister emigrated to England : she now lived in Wembley where her husband worked in a biscuit factory making shortbread . |
| 7 | All her life she refused to give her true age even after her young husband left her . |
| 8 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |
| 9 | Lorraine Herbert , of Flaxton , Yorkshire , was intrigued when her young daughter Joanne started talking about her friend , Dohti . |
| 10 | Renshaw has set a tentative date of mid-1993 for her return , when her youngest child will be at playgroup . |
| 11 | Tricia decided to temp when her youngest child started nursery full time . |
| 12 | Mrs Goode studied sociology and education subjects and hopes her degree will help her to obtain work in teaching when her youngest child , four-year-old James , starts school . |
| 13 | When her youngest child was a year old , she stopped breathing . |
| 14 | Tragedy hit them when her youngest brother died of cancer when he was thirteen . |
| 15 | When her younger brother was being bullied it was she who leapt to his defence and up-ended his tormentor in a matter of seconds . |
| 16 | When her younger brother tried to challenge her inheritance from her mother , ‘ I told him that though he was now the heir , as being son , yet I was two years the elder by my birth , and though he had got the birthright , yet I ought to have a share of her blessing . ’ |