Example sentences of "his elder [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE wee boy 's best shoes clumped on the polished floor as his elder sister let go of his arms . |
| 2 | His letters home to Mary , his elder sister and childhood companion , are full of the excitement of sight-seeing excursions , evenings at the theatre and opera , thrice weekly visits to the International Exhibition at Kensington , soirées at the Architectural Association ( in a borrowed frock coat ) , and his employer 's splendid new offices at Adelphi Terrace , not far from the National Gallery . |
| 3 | Just before leaving Doune he had heard from his elder sister Agnes , Countess of Dunbar and March , that her peculiar husband had now entered into a treasonable arrangement with Edward of England , not only to hand over Dunbar Castle to the English but actually to strengthen it first , at the Plantagenet 's expense . |
| 4 | In May 1165 the Queen took Richard and his elder sister Matilda ( born 1156 ) to Normandy ; a fortnight later King Henry crossed the Channel in the other direction , leaving his family behind while he mounted a major campaign , albeit an unsuccessful one , against the Welsh . |
| 5 | Cocks was only ten years old when his father died , leaving him heir to his paternal grandfather 's baronetcy and estate at Dumbleton , Gloucestershire , and the remainder of his upbringing was entrusted to the strict guidance of his elder sister , Dorothy , who regulated the family to her own pattern of godliness . |
| 6 | Her grandmother , his elder sister , would have been seventy if she had been still living , and there were several years between them . |
| 7 | His elder sister , Mrs Elspeth Borthwick , who is married to the son of Lord Borthwick , will also be there . |
| 8 | His elder daughter , heir to the throne , was just twenty-five years of age and was on a trip , with her husband , Prince Philip , to Kenya , so they hurried back to London . |
| 9 | Indeed it drew from Moray the comment that this was the one matter that he had against their father : that he had married off his elder daughter , as a mere girl , to a man more than twice her age , as a matter of policy , to endeavour to attach Dunbar more firmly to the national cause , unsuccessful as this had been . |
| 10 | The lonely 75-year-old monarch was missing his elder daughter and grandchildren Andrea , eight , Charlotte , six , and Pierre , five . |
| 11 | The kitchen overflowed with large bodies , plump bodies and colliding bodies as Mr Beavis , his sons and his elder daughter all prepared to leave the house . |
| 12 | After 1496 Henry resorted to Parliament only once , in 1504 , when he was granted £30,000 as an aid for the knighting of his eldest son — by then dead — and the marriage of his elder daughter . |
| 13 | Terry wrote out messages for his girlfriend Madeleine and their daughter Sulome , his elder daughter Gabrielle and for his sister Peggy . |
| 14 | Parliament crossed him , always with the greatest respect but implacably , criticised his use of the council to levy an aid for the marriage of his elder daughter without consulting them , doubted if there was a precedent recent enough to justify the aid , and periodically and obstinately restated to him the principle that the king should live ‘ of his own ’ , without demanding that parliament should raise money by taxes for his expenses . |
| 15 | Unlike Lawrence , but like his elder namesake , Arthur junior was a parliamentarian , and he adventured £300 in the prospective purchase of Irish lands . |
| 16 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 17 | The Youngest Son would stay with us in Al Ain , catching up on his studies in order to graduate with his class from secondary school , but it would be a week before the Sheikh and his elder sons drew up in their big Mercedes and brought that filling of the house that always comes when men are at home , the heavy laughter , the smell of pipe smoke , screeches of excitement from the children as they are tossed high in the air . |
| 18 | He paused and pointed his cigar at his elder boy in friendly admonition . |
| 19 | K-9 ( 12 ) , which stars James Belushi , hints at the less than glittering screen career that might have awaited his elder brother , had he lived . |
| 20 | But his elder brother John thinks that he knew better what the score was than he ever let on . |
| 21 | This was because of his elder brother Frank , whose academic career was already starred . |
| 22 | His elder brother Frank was 17 and revered by Michael who was 15 . |
| 23 | Mr Mathew 's story begins with a death , that of his elder brother , Theobald , in July 1983 , who left a will stating that his £1 million estate should be split among his four younger brothers . |
| 24 | Thomas , his elder brother , was fined as a recusant in 1646 , and little by little the Brydges ' fortune dwindled . |
| 25 | It is worth remembering that , when Indira asked Rajiv to go into politics after his elder brother 's death in 1980 , he put out a statement saying that he had no such intention . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Ibrahim Bu Shanna , reaching maturity at a propitious time , had opportunities to achieve success in trade denied to his elder brother , who grew up during the war : the elder brother was a gardener , who lived subordinate in every way except the symbolic to Ibrahim , a successful wholesaler . |
| 28 | Eamon Murphy , with his elder brother Declan suspended , seized his opportunity in polished style on Bradbury Star in the Mumm Mildmay Chase . |
| 29 | Short trousers , grubby knees , odd socks , and a pair of indescribable shoes that had belonged to his elder brother , completed the picture of a happy child , unlikely to be able to spell simple words like ‘ class ’ for a very long time . |
| 30 | Thus although his territories were extensive and almost equal to those of his elder brother , the military might and command of the famous Frankish warriors remained mainly with Charles . |