Example sentences of "and [pron] [adj -er] brother " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of a family of six and me elder brother was me bro me dad had a little business in the keys in and er they were hard times and me elder brother we used to go and work for him because me dad said he must and er from , after school I used to go and perhaps do the errands or a bit of filing , the odd jobs and all that sort of thing and I grew up with locks and keys and files from twelve , even before I left school . |
| 2 | One of a family of six and me elder brother was me bro me dad had a little business in the keys in and er they were hard times and me elder brother we used to go and work for him because me dad said he must and er from , after school I used to go and perhaps do the errands or a bit of filing , the odd jobs and all that sort of thing and I grew up with locks and keys and files from twelve , even before I left school . |
| 3 | And my elder brother , he had told me the same thing — ‘ Babi , you are not listening to us so we are not responsible for anything . ’ |
| 4 | When I was six years old , my sister Pat eight , and my younger brother Alan three , war broke out . |
| 5 | I ca n't live off my mother and my younger brother : I 'm supposed to look after them and not the other way round . |
| 6 | The birth of THE WOMEN 'S TROOP has made it and its older brother company , Black Mime Theatre , the only two professional Black Mime companies in existence to date . |
| 7 | Her father , Ray Shepherd had worked in the shipyard until it closed and her elder brother , Steve , had been out of work since leaving school . |
| 8 | Raffaella and her elder brother had had to flee to the mountains after some unspecified trouble with the Germans and had joined a local band of partisans . |
| 9 | Soon Carolyn was the favourite story reader , both with Sylvia and her older brother Robin . |
| 10 | A 13 year old girl and her younger brother , from Bartestree near Hereford , were stopped by a man in a white car and wearing what they describe as police uniform , who offered them a lift home . |
| 11 | Mind , by the time you 'd shared a Creme Egg between those three and their older brother |
| 12 | The Lord Chamberlain , who acts as head of the royal household , is the Earl of Airlie , an Old Etonian banker whose wife , Virginia , is a longstanding Lady of the Bedchamber and whose younger brother , the Hon. |
| 13 | Also present were Bracy Clark and his elder brother , Henry . |
| 14 | Until recently it was run jointly by Peter Davenport and his elder brother Quentin , an accountant by training who supervised the company as a whole while Peter ran the Royal Oak . |
| 15 | Despite the fact that Richard and his elder brother had performed homage to Louis VII for their lands it was obvious that their father had in no way relinquished control . |
| 16 | There could be little doubt that Richard and his elder brother would give very different answers to these questions . |
| 17 | At school , both he and his elder brother ( Robert Victor ) excelled at sports ; in 1919 Eric set a new ( and still unbroken ) school record of 10.2 seconds for the 100 yards . |
| 18 | Arthur Squibb the elder , his father 's first cousin , was a teller , and his elder brother Lawrence also became one in 1640 , in which year he himself acquired a reversion to a tellership . |
| 19 | In 1879 he and his elder brother E. B. Castner set up as consulting chemists in New York . |
| 20 | He 's been in trouble since he was six , and his older brother , he 's ESN too , he 's worse . |
| 21 | Following the example of their maternal grandfather , Norman , dean of the chapter at Seés , and their maternal uncle , John , bishop of Lisieux ( 1107–41 ) , both Arnulf and his older brother John , bishop of Seés ( 1124–44 ) , were trained for careers in the church . |
| 22 | Jonny Searle , who rowed three times for Oxford , and his younger brother , Greg , both won world junior gold medals while at Hampton School . |
| 23 | Alternative fishing and help came from a most unexpected quarter , in the shape of a book by Anya Seaton called Devil Water ; a marvellous historical novel by a master story-teller , describing the tragic , romantic life of James Radcliffe , Earl of Derwentwater , and his younger brother Charles , both executed for their support of the Jacobite cause during the revolutions of 1715 and 1745 . |
| 24 | ‘ Bonnie Prince Charlie ’ had been a strikingly attractive and charming child and he lost neither characteristic as he grew older though he lacked both his father 's scholarly bent and his younger brother Henry 's piety . |
| 25 | One of them was the brown-haired choirboy and his younger brother was a smaller dark-haired version of him . |
| 26 | The boy , now 16 , and his younger brother and sister were subjected to four years of abuse , Guilford Crown Court was told . |
| 27 | Peter lost all he 'd made , and with it his chance to help his parents and his younger brother and sister , Toby and Laura . |
| 28 | After a year in the home , Fashanu and his younger brother John were taken by foster parents to East Anglia . |
| 29 | Thus the remarkable situation developed in which the top-ranking male Kendo and his younger brother Fitz were completely excluded from the meat-eating scrum , and the number-two male Macho was barely tolerated and allowed only a few tiny morsels . |
| 30 | Ngo Van Dong and his younger brother , Hoc , huddled close together in the darkness in one of the long huts , their ragged clothes already saturated with the rain that streamed in through the inadequate thatch . |