Example sentences of "[subord] his [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thoughtfully left the two letters on his desk , where his older brother discovered them . |
| 2 | George , who had more confidence than his elder brother , spoke . |
| 3 | ‘ They tell me he 's a little more relaxed on this one than his earlier ones , ’ says Kyle MacLachlan , Agent Cooper in David Lynch 's TV-phenomenon Twin Peaks and now a dead ringer for keyboard player Ray Manzarek . |
| 4 | These recent watercolours , larger , bolder and stronger than his earlier work , pleased me so much when first I saw them that I offered him an exhibition at Abbot Hall . |
| 5 | Pascoe staunchly refused to go further than his earlier explanation that he wanted to speak to MacQuillan about finance . |
| 6 | Obscure as they often are , more is known of Cnut 's foreign relations than his later years in England . |
| 7 | He too must drive off rivals once his older patron is gone if he is to remain in possession of his inherited females . |
| 8 | Richard indeed added that there was no way that he would go to Jerusalem unless his younger brother went with him . |
| 9 | Boy smiled , and then winced slightly , because his lower lip was split , and then he took a sip of his beer and he smiled sweetly and said , In love . |
| 10 | A few hasty notes in July show that he continued to visit 6 Patten Road , and occasionally to have dinner there , until their separation became a reality , when Helen took up a resident post as governess with the Wards , at 33 Bath Road , Bedford and Edward spent August with his father 's relations at 17 Woodville Street , Pontardulais , while his younger brothers became pupils at a small denominational school in Ammanford . |
| 11 | Wolfgang and his sister Nannerl remained on close terms throughout his life : his early letters to her and to a Salzburg cousin , Anna Maria Thekla ( ‘ the Bäsle ’ , as he called her ) are full of juvenile high spirits , spiced with an earthy , often indelicate sense of humour , while his later letters to his sister show a touching solicitude for the state of her health and spirits . |
| 12 | The younger man has adopted a contemporary hairstyle , while his older companion is portrayed in the traditional Republican style . |
| 13 | And he advised parliament , when a House of Commons committee was enquiring into the provisional continuance of the prison hulks system in 1778 , that conditions had improved since his earlier criticisms and that he would support continued use of the hulks until transportation could be resumed . |
| 14 | Alexander has n't played since his younger brother Ben was killed in a car crash in June . |
| 15 | He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop . |
| 16 | Sophia married Ernst August of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1629–1698 ) in 1658 , after his elder brother had withdrawn an offer . |
| 17 | Just as at Northampton he questioned the merit of the Southern League after shaping a team that mastered it , so after his later Championship triumphs at Huddersfield and Arsenal , he was to question the league system that was the framework of those triumphs . |
| 18 | John Hey 's eldest son , Melling ( 1808–65 ) , was described as a fancy weaver when his elder children were baptised between 1836 and 1842 , but when his last child was baptised in 1846 he was working as a labourer and in the 1851 census returns his occupation was given as groom . |
| 19 | Yet he recorded that , when his elder brother died in a skating accident at the age of thirteen , James and his sister , Maggie , played together under the table on which the coffin was lying . |
| 20 | Things had gone seriously wrong for Derek Young when his younger brother ran out into the road , was hit by a car , and suffered severe brain damage from which he never recovered , spending the rest of his life as a vegetable in a long-stay hospital . |
| 21 | Four year old Stephen Lack , from Northampton was playing in his grandmother 's garden when his younger brother Mark fell into the pond . |
| 22 | He does precisely what the father will do when his younger son returns in Jesus 's parable of ‘ The Prodigal Son ’ ( indeed the whole of that parable finds its basis in the Jacob/Esau stories ) . |
| 23 | When his younger son comes of an age when he wants to get married , any girl he brings home is going to take one look at the life his mother has to put up with and she 'll be off . ’ |
| 24 | He was sufficiently confused by the English way of repressing emotion to characterise kind Hearts and Coronets as characteristic of Ealing movies in being emotionally quite frozen , ’ and so fastidiously determined to stay aloof from bland commercialism that he took no interest in the horror genre ( even though his later use of the Frankenstein story in his 1982 film Britannia Hospital suggests how much of a contribution he might have made in this area ) . |
| 25 | THE wee boy 's best shoes clumped on the polished floor as his elder sister let go of his arms . |
| 26 | Hugh de Riveire , a man as able as his older cousin Osbern of Eu , considered the changed circumstances over the fire in the privacy of their quarters at Scone , and reached a conclusion . |
| 27 | Edward IV died in April 1483 , and the power struggle resumed as his younger brother , Richard , Duke of Gloucester , was Protector of the heir , the twelve year old Edward V , and the Duke removed the heir and his brother , who was two years younger , to the Tower of London where they died . |
| 28 | Lawren was in his ‘ abstract period ’ then , which did not have the same appeal as his earlier cold , stark paintings of mountain and woodland . |
| 29 | By these standards , Levi would appear to be an imperfect Jew , and this could well be an opinion that underlies the talk about his later books being not nearly as good as his earlier ones . |
| 30 | Hairdresser Terry Brooks , 28 , said : ‘ It 's not as good as his earlier stuff . |