Example sentences of "his [num] brother " in BNC.
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| 1 | Courtney often claimed that six of his eight brothers and sisters were also qualified doctors . |
| 2 | His 10 brothers and sisters , all from the same illustrious litter , have also won races , though at lesser meetings . |
| 3 | Of his six brothers and sisters , only Howard , the wife of Sir Lewis Dyve [ q.v. ] , and James , a colonel of foot in the civil war , lived to maturity . |
| 4 | Harry Ward , a 27-year-old born-deaf man orally educated at the Llandaff School in Cardiff and possessing excellent lipreading skills , managed to follow his three brothers into the Munster Regiment and undergo training at the Curragh Camp in Ireland . |
| 5 | Charles , the bridegroom , was in some ways set apart from his three brothers ; for a start he appears to have been illiterate , whereas they were not , and also he was the only one who was not a cardmaker — or if he had learned the trade , he chose not to practise it . |
| 6 | And compared to his three brothers , Charles was not doing too badly in the world , after all . |
| 7 | He seems to have been trained , along with his three brothers , to carry on the family business , which also included bookselling . |
| 8 | His three brothers came to him , one by one , and they each kissed his hand . |
| 9 | Often whole families of brothers and sisters worked on the dressing floors — in 1845 William High joined his three brothers . |
| 10 | The small government flat I had been expecting turned out instead to be a large if simple village haveli , occupied by Mr Postman 's extended family — his three brothers , their children and Mr Postman 's old mother . |
| 11 | In a brief campaign , Aurangzeb had seized the empire , imprisoned his father , and had begun hunting down and murdering his three brothers . |
| 12 | He , along with his three brothers is very lively and is always running about and making plenty of noise outside my house . |
| 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 | He lived with his five brothers , sister and parents in an old building near the Cliff Hotel in Jaffa and he still remembered the day in 1935 on which Jean Damiani bought the first family car , a magnificent light green Buick saloon costing 350 Palestinian pounds , equivalent then to the same amount in sterling . |
| 15 | After all , many of those he was up against would have been miners , like his five brothers , like Ifor who could carry a bag of cement under each arm . |
| 16 | His sister was a member of an Order in Scotland and his five brothers , all senior to him , were scattered in various parts of Britain and America , and so the little village had nothing left to hold him . |
| 17 | Four of his five brothers followed their father into public service : most conspicuously Lambert , pensionary of Rotterdam , and Abraham , attorney-general of the province of Holland . |
| 18 | He and his five brothers married English girls . |
| 19 | Her government sequestered shares in San Miguel held by Mr Cojuangco and his two brothers . |
| 20 | He left home with his two brothers in 1939 to fight the Germans , becoming a sergeant-major in the Czechoslovak Free Army and serving alongside British forces in North Africa and Europe . |
| 21 | Only his two brothers surreptitiously welcomed his way of life . |
| 22 | Daniel 's mother and his two brothers , aged nine and 10 , escaped . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , the receiver is still waiting for the club 's chairman , Samesh Kumar , and his two brothers to resign from Birmingham 's board of directors . |
| 24 | He was the eldest son , his two brothers having been killed in the Great War . |
| 25 | ALI BOUREQUAT AND HIS TWO BROTHERS ENDURED 19 YEARS IN MOROCCAN PRISONS WITHOUT CHARGE OR TRIAL . |
| 26 | THE PILGRIM Hussein Ibrahim walked 60 miles on matchstick legs with his mother in the hope of escaping the fate of his two brothers , sister and father who starved to death |
| 27 | Along the way Mark Finlay , briefly an All Black fullback , and Marty Brooke , on the fringe of joining his two brothers in All Black colours , were attracted to Japan on working/coaching assignments . |
| 28 | When one of his two brothers , romping and teasing , as boys do , thoughtlessly said , ‘ I 've got a gun , I 'm going to kill you , ’ he withdrew into his shell and screamed , ‘ Do n't talk about that . ’ |
| 29 | His two brothers , Richard and William , followed him into Gloucester 's service . |
| 30 | Dermot looked round briefly at Patsy and Ellie and then said something to his two brothers which made all three of them laugh . |