Example sentences of "[pron] brought [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw the plant growing happily in a garden in Virginia , and I brought back a cutting … |
| 2 | These had deeds of Herakles and Theseus , and an Amazonomachy , presumably that at Themiscyra , the city of the Amazons , where Theseus accompanied Herakles on his quest for Hippolyta 's girdle and himself brought back an Amazon bride , Antiope . |
| 3 | Wallich based his refutation mainly on a Bulldog sounding , at a depth of some 2,300 metres , which brought up a number of brittle-stars entangled in the line . |
| 4 | He opened his mouth to speak but his words were drowned by a volley of musket fire nearby and the crash of a round shot which brought down a shower of plaster on the heads of his audience . |
| 5 | He also objected to the Pope 's choice for Archbishop of Canterbury , which brought about a situation whereby all religious observance could not be undertaken , including baptisms , weddings and burials , and John was excommunicated . |
| 6 | I ended up in hospital in a plaster cast , the trauma of which brought about a nervous breakdown which resulted in ten months in a psychiatric hospital . |
| 7 | Paul Gascoigne 's career and his hugely expensive transfer to Lazio had been in doubt ever since his disastrous knee injury in last year 's FA Cup Final , but the night club fracas which brought about a further fracture made a successful recovery look still less likely . |
| 8 | there was a holistic world vision which brought about an understanding of the natural order . |
| 9 | It tells the story of the development , testing and eventual use of the atomic bombs which brought about an end to the Second World War . |
| 10 | as if from nowhere Henry , too , appeared and , crouching in the corner of the couch , Emma now watched him struggling with her mother , and when he wrenched the poker from her hand and flung it across the room , there was the sound of splintering wood , which brought about an inevitable silence , punctuated only by gasps . |
| 11 | The new government , which brought in a number of technocrats to take over key economic portfolios , did not , however , include any members of the opposition or resistance movements . |
| 12 | She brought out a bottle of red wine from the cupboard . |
| 13 | With that she brought out a shining copy of Charles Kingsley 's The Water Babies . |
| 14 | Reaching into her skirt pocket , she brought out a silver shilling which she placed into the older man 's hand . |
| 15 | She brought out a man 's handkerchief and loudly blew her nose . |
| 16 | She brought out a sealed billet . |
| 17 | From a drawer of her desk she brought out a number of pink slips clipped together and she separated the top three . |
| 18 | But of course he was right about the trouser bit because Nan had a gay disposition and a very pretty face ; what he would n't admit to was that she brought in a lot of custom at the week-end , especially when there was a boat in and some of the sailors would make their way up from the quayside and spend freely on chocolate or toffee for their girls . |
| 19 | By what I can gather they must have lived in Durham for a time , 'cos when she was saying her prayers she brought in a Mrs Melburn , a parson 's wife , who was kind to them after the father died or whatever , an' from what I made out of her jabbering the woman and the mother have written to each other . |
| 20 | Acting on a hunch , she brought in a low-frequency recorder and found that infrasound was emanating from its forehead . |
| 21 | ‘ I should stay there for a while , ’ said Elise , when she brought in a breakfast tray . |
| 22 | And a top money spinner will certainly be crime writer PD James , from Oxford … she brought in an enviable library . |
| 23 | Once , though , she brought back a young rabbit fresh from its nest . |
| 24 | Arnold Bennett caught this splendidly in the story of Denry Machin , an ambitious and well-off young councillor , who brought back a local footballing hero to the town at his own expense . |
| 25 | By lunchtime the department was manic and the pace relentless but it still did not stop the old man who brought back a kettle complaining it did not work . |
| 26 | The first was the arrival of the Portuguese sailors , who brought in a whole load of European and even North African musical influences , as well as early forms of the ukulele and the guitar . |
| 27 | At a joint one-day Wedgwood and Sotheby 's identification and valuation event at the Westfries Museum , in Hoorn , Lynn encountered many Dutch visitors who brought in a variety of heirlooms or pieces they had collected . |
| 28 | Together we brought round a pile of boards and I started chopping while Laura fed the slender faggots to the flame , and Edward tinkered with the loose bricks that controlled the air supply . |
| 29 | We have maintained a high level of marketing activity in the traditional areas of our work with the result that we brought in a greater value of tender enquiries in 1992 than we did in the previous year , and this we achieved against the backcloth of a continually reducing market . |
| 30 | He was very good when it was subjects he understood , like girlfriends or summer holidays , but when we brought in a political issue he was n't quite so sure of it , but he grew into it very well . |