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

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1 I knew in one case that every Saturday morning I would get a letter from a lad who was having a very trying time at an operational training unit , and he begged me week after week , I eventually relented and brought him back ; he nearly went through and completed a second Pathfinder tour .
2 Aung San overcame his plea that he just wanted to go on writing and brought him to Rangoon .
3 I was most willingly rescued and brought down manually the four flights of stairs .
4 Despite being repeatedly arrested and brought back home , bruised and beaten by the police , she finally got to see the King by throwing herself into the road in front of the Royal car .
5 Again and again in different documents it is emphasized that ‘ in the sacrament of the eucharistic bread the unity of all believers is both expressed and brought about ’ ( Lumen Gentium 3 ) , the Eucharistic celebration is ‘ the centre and culmination of the whole life of the Christian community ’ ( Christus Dominus 30 ) .
6 He and them , inside and outside : only in art was this dichotomy ever really clarified and brought to rest .
7 As they were more frequently summoned , so numbers of them came to be more frequently re-elected and brought increasing continuity from one assembly to the next .
8 The effect was dramatic , paralysing French artillery support and enabling the Germans to make deep advances that brought them to within striking distance of Verdun itself .
9 My Grandad was again born and brought up , not in Wales but in Scotland .
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