Example sentences of "[vb past] brought [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned to reach the two glasses of wine that stood on a bedside table ; he 'd brought them with him from the dinner table . |
| 2 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 3 | My parents were fond of travel , and they 'd brought me on a trip , long before people had even heard of package holidays . |
| 4 | He was confident he 'd brought her to the stage where he could lay her . |
| 5 | Everything was peaceful — everything but the man who 'd brought her to this place . |
| 6 | She thought of what he 'd said about New England that day he 'd brought her to Rome , and how arrogantly she 'd reacted . |
| 7 | ‘ My lord said that he 'd brought you from Gloucester , ’ volunteered Ellen , setting a trencher of bread and fruit on the table , ‘ where you 'd been held since your father 's death . |
| 8 | Jess did n't add she 'd brought it on herself , being too liberal with the gin bottle after swilling strong beer with her food . |
| 9 | She winced , surprised to find how much she was hurt by the stinging acid in his voice , even though she knew she 'd brought it on herself . |
| 10 | I have n't met anybody they mail shot us um I thought I 'd brought it with me |
| 11 | Sophie had brought them with her the previous night . |
| 12 | If Nenna had brought them with her to Grace , they must certainly have been ruined by the damp . |
| 13 | The directors , who met weekly , acted as a house committee , and the minutes of their meetings show them to have been diligent in pursuing the objectives set out in the preamble to the Act of Parliament which had brought them into existence . |
| 14 | These jobs also enabled the mixed-race people to band together into tightly knit communities , where they could keep their existence constantly before the white masters whose earlier sexual peccadillos had brought them into being . |
| 15 | A mere two hundred miles from Washington had brought them into a different season although it was obviously the first hint of real autumn in New York : around them others were hurrying because they were too thinly dressed or tugging at coats and gloves that were unfamiliar and awkward after half a year at the back of the closet . |
| 16 | Rose , with the same tact as she had brought them to the house , was careful to absent herself from these occasions as much as possible . |
| 17 | What had brought them to this ancient grave ? |
| 18 | Inept leadership and disastrous hesitations had brought them to this . |
| 19 | What he had brought them to . |
| 20 | When Pc Black had found him in the toilets he said he had temporarily removed his glasses to wipe them , and that a friend who was there had brought them to him at the police station . |
| 21 | She had brought them to a place with snakes , although none had appeared to alarm the children , snakes or secrets . |
| 22 | Less than an hour in their company had brought them to the boil . |
| 23 | Work had brought them to London , which they regarded as Down South . |
| 24 | A line of the malabars , named after the Indian immigrants who had brought them to the colony , had been drawn up under the trees in the square outside the Continental Palace Hotel when they emerged to go to Cholon with Jacques and Paul Devraux to buy the last of their hunting supplies . |
| 25 | That the Romans had " abandoned the disciplined , frugal and stern manner of life that had brought them to such greatness , and fell into the pernicious pursuit of luxury and licence " ( 37.2. 1 ) was , in the same perspective , seen as the primary cause of the Social War . |
| 26 | They would appear from time to time and taunt the old couple , reminding them of their past lives and the failures or mistakes which had brought them to the castle ( though never detailing them — neither Quiss nor Ajayi knew what the other had done to justify sending them here . |
| 27 | Outgoing BAIE national chairman Phillipa Burrow , who appeared with her in the BBC studios at Pebble Mill in Birmingham , said the number of cot deaths had fallen by 60 per cent since Anne Diamond had brought them to the attention of the public and the Government . |
| 28 | The letter had brought them to the surface , where they could hurt more . |
| 29 | He had brought them to faith in Jesus Christ . |
| 30 | It was her deep sorrow and unhappiness at the tragic accident that had brought them to the United States , together with all the fraught , highly charged tension of having to be in Ross 's company for any length of time , which had taken its toll of her already precariously weak reserves of strength . |