Example sentences of "by his [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was educated at home by his family , particularly by his elder brother John Pauncefort Arrowsmith who later published an account The Art of Instructing the Infant Deaf and Dumb in 1819 . |
| 2 | George Oaks had been cared for and had work provided , first by his parents and later , by his elder brother . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Always he had been overshadowed by his elder brother , the famous Black Douglas — and never wished it otherwise . |
| 5 | Only eight at the time of his brother 's accession in 1461 , he spent the early years of Edward IV 's reign in relative obscurity , overshadowed by his elder brother George duke of Clarence . |
| 6 | For Raymond , whose county had been held as a fief of Aquitaine since 1173 , the replacement of Richard by his elder brother held out the prospect of release from a galling sense of subordination . |
| 7 | He was brought up by his mother and an aunt and then , after their deaths , by his elder brother . |
| 8 | Two years later , apprised by his elder brother and partner Laurence of the defeat of Napoleon at Moscow before this was publicly known , he secured large contracts for the forward delivery of Russian imports at their peak wartime prices . |
| 9 | Though eclipsed by his elder brother , Thomas ( later first Marquis of Wharton , q.v. ) , and cutting less of a dash than his two other brothers , William ( by his father 's third marriage ) , the wit and gallant , slain in a duel , and Henry , the soldier politician who died young while campaigning in Ireland , Goodwin Wharton nevertheless played no small part in post-1688 Whig politics . |
| 10 | Only eight at the time of his brother 's accession in 1461 , he spent the early years of Edward IV 's reign in relative obscurity , overshadowed by his elder brother George duke of Clarence . |
| 11 | Gould has been appointed Coventry 's youth team coach by his elder brother Bobby , who 's manager at Highfield Road . |
| 12 | Sir Joshua Van Neck died 6 March 1777 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his elder son Gerard . |
| 13 | He stood straight like an elegant , modern building with his large , black hands gently hanging by his lower body . |
| 14 | Ho put all his authority into the acceptance of the convention by his wilder supporters . |
| 15 | The latter is indicated in scene eight by his greater turn-allocation ( 11 instances out of 15 turns ) which indicates his interest both in what Chetwyn was doing when he missed the afternoon session of the Colloquium , and in McKendrick 's academic topic of philosophy and catastrophe theory . |
| 16 | Anselm seems to have treated Rufus with more generosity and trustfulness than he showed to Henry I. This can probably be explained by his greater experience of the unreliability of kings ; perhaps also by a certain attractive openness in Rufus which the prudent and wily Henry lacked . |
| 17 | Theuderic I seems to have kept himself apart from the other sons of Clovis , though this could , in part , be explained by his greater age . |
| 18 | Andrewes ' qualities and weaknesses in public life have been commented upon by his later biographers . |
| 19 | Gedge , instead , had been introduced to the dubious charms of ELP , Yes and Genesis by Dave Fielding , who had in turn been influenced by his older brother . |
| 20 | In 1653 , after the remaining works had been completed by Dutch prisoners of war under Vermuyden 's direction , a service of thanksgiving was held in Ely Cathedral ; and in the same year Vermuyden was employed by his earlier adversary , the lord protector , on diplomatic missions to the Netherlands . |
| 21 | A bonus was that he had been so fascinated by his earlier experience that his confidence in hypnotherapy as a whole had grown , and he was far more willing to undergo treatment than he might otherwise have been . |
| 22 | It became known as the Pleven Plan , named after the French premier , René Pleven , who took an outline drafted by his earlier mentor , Jean Monnet , and laid it before the French Parliament on 24 October 1950 . |
| 23 | A British audience will not have seen his work for more than twenty years , although he was included by his earlier art in the Tate Gallery 's ‘ St Ives ’ exhibition of 1985 , and the new works , delicately constructed and monochromatic in colour , will be a happy surprise . |
| 24 | The parents , in their concern about him feeling pushed out by his younger sister , had always given him much more and felt very upset when he complained . |
| 25 | The poor little rich boy was looked after by a second mother in the person of strict Ilse , from Germany : this did a great deal , but not enough , to relieve the isolation he felt — which , as his researches disclosed , was to be a factor in the isolation and rejection suffered in turn by his younger brother , who also left for the Mediterranean . |
| 26 | Philip Hoby died there shortly after completing the house and was succeeded by his younger brother , Thomas . |
| 27 | After an eventful journey to Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides , off the north-west coast of Scotland , he was joined by his younger brother , aged around 23 , James Keith , who had travelled through France to Paris like a military pied Piper , collecting Jacobites as he went , before embarking on a little 25-ton ship at Le Havre to sail round the west coast of Ireland . |
| 28 | She bitterly resented her husband 's domination by his younger brother . |
| 29 | The younger James Stephen in essays in the Edinburgh Review in 1838 and 1843 , later republished and expanded in Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography ( 1849 ) , took up the tradition of abolitionist historical writing on antislavery and was joined in it by his younger brother , Sir George Stephen , with Anti-Slavery Recollections ( 1854 ) . |
| 30 | Already as a young man of twenty-four he had pressed Eliot 's claims upon his seniors , John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson , in the circle of the Nashville ‘ fugitives ’ ; and this initially provincial dispute was played out on a national stage as early as 1923 when , in the New York Evening Post Literary Review , Ransom , with the courtly composure that was to be his hallmark , tried to promote Robert Graves before Eliot , only to be taken to task in the same columns by his younger associate . |