Example sentences of "and [pron] younger [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's four of us in the family — my brother Gary , my older sister Majella , myself and my younger sister Mary . |
| 2 | When I was six years old , my sister Pat eight , and my younger brother Alan three , war broke out . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Conservation groups pointed out that the Commission was studying the wrong forests ( its own and its younger plantations ) and had deliberately excluded the trees which , on the basis of continental experience , would be most at risk . |
| 5 | It was an article of faith which led to disputes with the RCM and lively discussions between Rebecca Sieff and her younger sister , Elaine Blond . |
| 6 | For David , Lyn , Heidi , who 's 18 , and her younger sister Carla , 10 , Danny is still very much present in the home . |
| 7 | Emma 's parents and her younger sister and brother had left their home and are being comforted by relatives … |
| 8 | 5 months ago she and her younger sister were practising jumping in a field near their home in Hook Norton in Oxfordshire . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Even though Mr. Darcy is deeply offended by Elizabeth 's low rank in society and that of her family 's behaviour , especially Mrs. Bennet and her younger daughters , Darcy still proposes to Elizabeth . |
| 11 | Her elder son , who had done a conservation course , would have been warden , her elder daughter — a very good journalist — would do the publicity , her younger daughter , an artist and photographer , would design the field centre and set up exhibitions , and her younger son , an excellent communicator of great charm , would show the schoolchildren round . |
| 12 | But she no longer treated him with the old irritable dismissiveness ; she knew of Edouard 's reputation as a businessman , and obviously had heard his abilities praised , for she now regarded him warily , as if trying to decide whether , after all , she might have been wrong , and her younger son might be of use to her . |
| 13 | Until the middle of next month , Louis Carré et Cie is featuring three Japanese artists , Tomio Miki , Shintaro Tanaka and their younger colleague Shinro Ohtake . |
| 14 | And despite the obvious connections between the Netherlanders and the Parisian composers , Clement Janequin ( c. 1475–c. 1559 ) , Claudin de Sermisy ( c. 1495–1562 ) , and their younger colleagues , there were notable stylistic differences . |
| 15 | 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. |
| 16 | The Shah would gesticulate to him to stop it , but finally the Prince and his younger sister were allowed to perform a spirited disco dance while everyone below watched and the applauded . |
| 17 | Samuel Marshall , who was four and his younger sister Taylor , who was two , climbed into a twenty-five thousand gallon water tank while playing at Simpson Barracks in Northampton . |
| 18 | For only a month ago he had seen his eldest son and his younger daughter appoint proctors to treat in the matter of their proposed Danish marriages . |
| 19 | Jonny Searle , who rowed three times for Oxford , and his younger brother , Greg , both won world junior gold medals while at Hampton School . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | One of them was the brown-haired choirboy and his younger brother was a smaller dark-haired version of him . |
| 23 | The boy , now 16 , and his younger brother and sister were subjected to four years of abuse , Guilford Crown Court was told . |
| 24 | Peter lost all he 'd made , and with it his chance to help his parents and his younger brother and sister , Toby and Laura . |
| 25 | After a year in the home , Fashanu and his younger brother John were taken by foster parents to East Anglia . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Dong and his younger brother moved closer together . |
| 29 | In addition to Father 's parents , two bachelor uncles came to live with us at Low Birk Hatt : Great-Uncle Isaac from Dummah Hill and his younger brother , Great-Uncle William Bayles . |
| 30 | William Hiorne and his younger brother David ( d . |