Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adj] brother [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no picture of his mother or his murdered brother Stefan . |
| 2 | When I asked her what she wanted for Christmas she said things that her seven-year-old brother Simon could have . |
| 3 | Once her wee brother Jamie heard a pattering noise coming from Katy 's bedroom . |
| 4 | Then there were the children , Gtudu and Krotho , my cousins , and my young brother Klogo . ’ |
| 5 | When I was six years old , my sister Pat eight , and my younger brother Alan three , war broke out . |
| 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 | She had already lost her mother , killed in a riding accident , and her only brother Julien , who had died suddenly in 1870 . |
| 8 | Catherine Tomlins , 15 , and her 12-year-old brother James suffocated while sleeping in their fume-filled cabin . |
| 9 | Soon Carolyn was the favourite story reader , both with Sylvia and her older brother Robin . |
| 10 | William and Debbie Balthis , now both nine , and their six-year-old brother David were burned over a third of their bodies in the accident four years ago . |
| 11 | Lessons learnt at their father 's knee have made Henry Keswick , the chairman of Jardine Matheson , and his influential brother Simon deeply suspicious of the bosses in Beijing . |
| 12 | Gigolo Aunts consist of Velvet Crush part-timer David , drummer Paul Brouwer , bassist Steve Hurley and his twanging brother Phil on guitar . |
| 13 | He and his five brother delegates ( though there were 74 in the full Japanese team , and 70 correspondents ) were dressed in morning coats and striped trousers , ‘ to show Japan 's modesty and sincerity ’ , as Yoshida said . |
| 14 | In 1879 he and his elder brother E. B. Castner set up as consulting chemists in New York . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | The boys of both houses , Billy Keith who was now seven and Sandy Mackenzie , five , and his young brother Stuart , or Stu , who was three , were growing up strong and healthy under the sun . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Leaving Gossage in 1865 Hargreaves worked for two other soap manufacturers in Runcorn and Liverpool ; in 1871 he and his youngest brother John set up as consulting chemists in Widnes . |
| 20 | Paul Keywood , 13 , and his 11-year-old brother Nathan saved the little boy 's life after discovering him in freezing conditions wrapped in only a towel . |
| 21 | In or before 1814 Augustus Applegath and his younger brother Joseph ran a printing establishment in Covent Garden , until 1815 when Augustus Applegath took over the printing firm of Cornish & Co. at Nelson Square , Peckham . |
| 22 | Holden has a very strong relationship with his younger sister Phoebe , and his younger brother Allie who died recently . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | After a year in the home , Fashanu and his younger brother John were taken by foster parents to East Anglia . |
| 25 | In 1874 James and his younger brother John established the firm of Edwards & Sons in Pall Mall , London , and issued a catalogue of antiquarian books which , according to John Nichols [ q.v. ] , ‘ astonished , not only the purchasers of books , but the most experienced and intelligent booksellers in the Metropolis ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | William Hiorne and his younger brother David ( d . |
| 28 | Michael Gibson and his younger brother David were walking along High Row , Darlington , at 10.15pm on Friday when they were approached by three youths . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | Amid tight security , Francis Mullen and his younger brother James appeared before Liverpool city magistrates . |