Example sentences of "his [adj] brother [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he lay dying , Herbert handed a little book to one of his attendants and asked him to deliver it to his dear brother Nicholas Ferrar , |
| 2 | Gigolo Aunts consist of Velvet Crush part-timer David , drummer Paul Brouwer , bassist Steve Hurley and his twanging brother Phil on guitar . |
| 3 | Although a younger son , he inherited the property on the death of his father in 1706 after his elder brother Christopher ( a notorious spendthrift ) was disinherited . |
| 4 | In 1802 he joined his elder brother Daniel in founding a drapery business at 3 North Street , Brighton , where he drew and published ‘ A New and Correct Plan of Brighthelmstone ’ . |
| 5 | This was because of his elder brother Frank , whose academic career was already starred . |
| 6 | His elder brother Frank was 17 and revered by Michael who was 15 . |
| 7 | His letter written to congratulate his elder brother Lodovico when his engagement was announced , is typical of the sermons he preached at the marriages of so many friends . |
| 8 | The author , characteristically unworried by the small matter of the World War then in progress , with his elder brother Theodore . |
| 9 | His elder brother Nehemiah [ q.v. ] emigrated to New England in 1638 and John may have followed him there . |
| 10 | The office appointment had been intended for his elder brother Jonas , who appeared to possess the mind of a future attorney . |
| 11 | Chaplin showed a remarkable self-confidence in his own talents from an early age and this was amply exploited by his elder brother Sidney , played by Paul Rhys . |
| 12 | In 1879 he and his elder brother E. B. Castner set up as consulting chemists in New York . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | From his earliest days he followed his father 's interest in soccer and captained his school team at the age of 10 , playing with his elder brother Albert in the forward line . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Paralysed as he was , his elder brother Edwin could never father a child . |
| 17 | His elder brother Edwin was next in succession to the baronetcy , but he was a total invalid . |
| 18 | The death of Somes 's father in 1816 left him as partner with his elder brother Samuel in what was by then a prosperous family shipping firm . |
| 19 | His elder brother Andy is already a £1.25m central defender at Arsenal , albeit an apparent spare part ‘ as sick as a chip ’ says David in George Graham 's 13 piece jigsaw . |
| 20 | On the chest of drawers was a photograph of his elder brother Pedro in uniform , his pale patrician face the image of Angel 's , except for a black moustache . |
| 21 | His elder brother Charles ( died 1894 ) was headmaster of Westminster School from 1855 to 1883 . |
| 22 | About 1805 Hollingworth Magniac went to China to join his elder brother Charles in Canton in Beale , Reid & Co . |
| 23 | The individuals who comprised the Chaloner family varied as greatly in their characters as did the members of the parish gentry , from Alan Chaloner ( 1603–84 ) , the blacksmith who took pride in his work , to his elder brother Richard , whom Gough described as ‘ an untowardly liver , very idle and extravagant , endeavouring to supply his neccssytyes rather by stealeing than by his honest labour ’ . |
| 24 | Melrose comes from a strong rugby family with his elder brother Gregg a member of past Parramatta premiership winning teams while younger brother Brian has been a regular first-grade player with both Parramatta and Western Suburbs . |
| 25 | The older generation of both families remained in London ; the new partnership was managed by Joseph Nettlefold , his elder brother Edward , and the younger Joseph Chamberlain . |
| 26 | His elder brother James Armstrong Robinson became works manager and divisional locomotive superintendent of the Great Western at Wolverhampton . |
| 27 | His elder brother Robert had returned from the Crusade almost at the moment when Anselm reached England : he was newly married , and therefore , for the moment , rich . |
| 28 | , William ( c. 1465–1527 ) , master mason , was the younger son of Adam Vertue , a working mason at Westminster Abbey , and first appears in 1501 as joint master with his elder brother Robert for the rebuilding of Bath Abbey church . |
| 29 | Gould has been appointed Coventry 's youth team coach by his elder brother Bobby , who 's manager at Highfield Road . |
| 30 | He was a little over medium height , with the same complexion and the same dark brown eyes and hair of his elder brother Reginald . |