Example sentences of "brought [prep] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He brought with him a thirty page document proposing a military take-over of the country . |
| 2 | Drifting into the Colonial Office because deafness prevented him from taking up a career in the regular army , he brought with him a romantic conception of empire stimulated in the first instance by Kitchener 's Omdurman campaign and encouraged with appropriate reading matter by his father . |
| 3 | They even brought with them the distinctive knocker which was later returned to Oxford in the late nineteenth century . |
| 4 | It brought with it a wrinkled piece of brown paper tumbling down the street . |
| 5 | His recent return to England brought with it a 120-day qualification ban and he admitted : ‘ This game will be crucial because I need the extra edge . |
| 6 | Harnack himself defended that development as necessary for the survival of Christian faith in the ancient Graeco-Roman world , but believed it must now be transcended , for it brought with it the immense danger of transforming the original and authentic gospel of love preached and exemplified by Jesus into abstract intellectual formulae , of confusing the husk with the kernel . |
| 7 | I 'm sure your friend will put a good word in for you , ’ which brought from her the sharp retort : ‘ Yes , he will ! |
| 8 | It brought to him a sublime peace and contentment . |
| 9 | The work is enormous — comparisons with the second piano concerto are entirely justified , as familiar melodic and rhythmical thematic material pounds in the ears — and Conway and Evans brought to it a satisfying feel of sonority and stature . |