Example sentences of "[pers pn] to bring the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I want you to bring the nurse down here and let her tell you what she told me .
2 Kind it was of you to bring the lass solid meat in this cold weather .
3 Well I asked him to bring the dust bins in .
4 It can not be doubted that the constable was ‘ on duty ’ when he stopped the cyclist , and he was no doubt under some sort of obligation to stop the cyclist to enable him to bring the defendant before the court ultimately .
5 ‘ That was nice of him to bring the flowers .
6 She became even more frightened as Athelstan outlined his request and asked her to bring the napkin as soon as possible .
7 I wished I could direct her to bring the ship to my rescue .
8 We thought we should force them to bring the price down .
9 He wrote to the royal couple saying that he appreciated the problems facing a young family and invited them to bring the Prince along as well .
10 ‘ However , these animals are here and we must look after them and make full use of them to bring the attention of people in Northern Ireland to the plight of thousands of other , much less fortunate , chimpanzees . ’
11 ‘ When Julius phoned me yesterday and asked me to bring the files he wanted to work on , he did n't tell me you were staying here . ’
12 No it 's just that they take ages and ages and ages cos Dundee will ask Nottingham , Nottingham will ask us to bring the notes back , then we 'll send them to Nottingham , Nottingham will send them to Dundee , Dundee will send them to your G P .
13 Please help us to bring the men who have made this astonishing decision back to their senses before all is lost .
14 ‘ It is up to us to bring the levels of professionalism we were used to into this club . ’
15 Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far .
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