Example sentences of "her [adj -er] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social work came naturally to an intelligent unmarried Edwardian middle-class young woman , especially when her mother visited the local workhouse once a week for half a century and when her elder sister Olive was the warden of the Lady Margaret Hall settlement in Lambeth . |
| 2 | In 1931 she married ( Sir ) Albert Howard , MA , FLS , economic botanist to the government of India , the widower of her elder sister Gabrielle , who had been a botanist . |
| 3 | Sarah Jayne follows in the footsteps of her elder sister Leanne , who was 1992 champion , defeating Katie Morrison from Ballymena Academy Prep . |
| 4 | Her elder sister Josepha was already a successful dramatic coloratura soprano in Vienna , but by all accounts Aloysia had even more potential talent . |
| 5 | One was to her elder son Gamal , who was then in Florida . |
| 6 | Her elder brother Giles ( 1612–1663 ) became well known in the 1650s as a printer of Quaker literature . |
| 7 | Her elder brother André , an academic painter , was fond of Jeanne and close to her . |
| 8 | And I remember the family story of how on the eve of my grandmother 's wedding day her elder brother Ted had been locked out by her father and had broken a window to get in . |
| 9 | Should she don her heavier serge walking dress or be optimistic and wear the foulard she had planned ? |
| 10 | And the nearly murdered baby , how was it , where was it , Liz wondered , and found herself involuntarily doing a head count of her own stepchildren and children : she could see Jonathan , Alan and Sally ; her younger daughter Stella was away in Florence studying Italian , for her A levels , and staying safely and respectably as paying guest with art-historical friends of Esther ; but where was her middle stepson , Aaron ? |
| 11 | Childhood home of Queen Elizabeth , the Queen Mother , and birthplace of her younger daughter Princess Margaret . |
| 12 | foolish but amiable young man courting Bella Wilfer , who transfers his affections to her younger sister Lavinia , to whom he eventually becomes engaged , after Bella goes to live with the Boffins . |
| 13 | ( And who is to say that she was not a little piqued that her younger sister Shirley was already planning marriage ? ) |
| 14 | For David , Lyn , Heidi , who 's 18 , and her younger sister Carla , 10 , Danny is still very much present in the home . |
| 15 | Earlier , her younger sister Angela and her mother Kate were killed nearly two miles away . |
| 16 | Her younger sister Lucy , 21 , used to run a play scheme there . |
| 17 | Neither can the marriage of her younger sister Margaret to Dr Bram Southwell , at which Eva was bridesmaid . |
| 18 | In her younger days Elizabeth was a passionate girl . |
| 19 | Also from Thebes is an exquisite obsidian and gold necklace of the 12th Dynasty , loaned from the Metropolitan , while among other loans from the Met is a solid cast copper figure of a young boy holding a silver lotus found in the tomb of a woman at Thebes , probably an idealised portrait of her younger son Amenemheb . |
| 20 | Her daughter-in-law Victoria , wife of her younger son Rupert Legge , tells me they are expecting Lady Spencer at their home , Hamswell House , near Bath . |
| 21 | More immediately the autobiography , several times reworked , was circulated amongst friends and relatives to vindicate her conduct in a series of family quarrels with her husband 's kin , her own niece , and especially with her younger brother Christopher , the eventual heir to the Wandesford estates . |
| 22 | Her younger brother John 's early death and the missionary fervour aroused by the death of David Livingstone [ q.v. ] in 1873 , spurred Mary into applying for work further afield . |
| 23 | In her later novels Brooke-Rose uses techniques such as these to integrate different discourses , but in The Languages of Love linguistic transgression signals a lack of honesty and integrity . |
| 24 | LAURA PATTEN and her older sister Kate are to fly out to Hong Kong on December 20 to help their father , Governor Chris Patten , put aside local problems and enjoy a family Christmas . |
| 25 | Her older sister Catherine died in 1986 at the age of 104 and Dora , her younger sister last February , aged 95 . |
| 26 | Ferzana Kauser , 18 , was found with a ligature round her neck by her older sister Zatun at the house they shared in Bradford , West Yorks . |
| 27 | She was glad to escape ; it had been a working lunch , set up to discuss a new second-year course on the influence of gender on literary style , and the syllabus had provoked considerable opposition from two of her older male colleagues . |
| 28 | Soon Carolyn was the favourite story reader , both with Sylvia and her older brother Robin . |
| 29 | Throughout this , Esther maintained the fiction that she was in love with her older brother Saul , and maintained it so well that not even Alix and Liz knew the truth of the matter . |
| 30 | At sixteen , having taken her Higher School Certificate , she was already preparing for her first MD examination . |