Example sentences of "[verb] brought [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 This year has been the most difficult and disturbing of my 40-year reign , but it has brought home to me that I must do everything I can to continue to carry out that duty .
2 The murder has brought home to the genteel Spa town , the reality of violent crime in Britain today .
3 But the whole episode has brought home to doctor Archer the pointlessness of the war in what was once Yugoslavia .
4 The tales were lively , not without a strong hint of bawdiness , but they had brought vividly to life the glittering courts of former days — so different , as Alianor was wont to say with a sigh , from the subdued , uneasy court of the present king .
5 The mundane details of the denunciations , the decrees against Jews using the telephone or travelling on the Métro and so on had brought home to him that the French had both suffered by and been complicit in the Holocaust .
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