Example sentences of "bring back a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He half hoped she 'd bring back a burnt-offering , the way she had so often in their first few months of marriage , when she had deigned to cook for him . |
| 2 | For Christine , a nursery school teacher living near Manchester , now that most the ‘ teething troubles ’ with Anna are over , there is only one sadness : that she did not bring back a second child . |
| 3 | I 've promised we 'll bring back a young hog deer . " |
| 4 | ‘ And if you find a cafe , could you bring back a couple of bacon sandwiches ? ’ |
| 5 | But I 'm told on this day , May thirteenth , thirty seven years ago , and that should bring back a lot of memories for many of you , the Three-Ninetieth flew its hundred and fifth combat mission from this station and many of you remember that day . |
| 6 | no you 'd have to get all out and have a look , but I mean if I go over there I 'll bring back a load of D K and I know I will we 'll see . |
| 7 | But , although that sweet may have made you forget a grazed knee when you were four years old , I have never heard of a chocolate ( or even a whole box of them ) bringing back a lost love , changing the grade on an examination paper or reversing an unwelcome redundancy . |
| 8 | Bringing back a large towel , he spread it on the floor . |
| 9 | Then the next morning when he was still sleeping it off , Doris 'd go off to the pub herself and have a few , and bring back a quart of mild , and they 'd get drunk again together . |
| 10 | ‘ You feel , perhaps , that it would be a marvellous thing to go to the Counterweight Continent and bring back a shipload of gold ? ’ |
| 11 | It really is exciting and something which it 's difficult to express and even better if we can do something for Herefordshire and bring back a winner . |
| 12 | He was brought back a few hours later , dazed and dreamy , with a dull headache and no very clear notion of what had been done to him or why . |
| 13 | Then there was the news that El Daba airfield was not being used , though Jellicoe had brought back a couple of German prisoners who freely volunteered the information that this was the most important of their forward airfields . |
| 14 | This was a wonderful opportunity to continue to network European wide and the WASL representatives have brought back a good range of catalogues and information about new women artists groups for the archive . |
| 15 | Seeing Pugh 's brought back a past visit . |
| 16 | On several occasions though the program also brought back a quantity of junk graphics suggesting that its overlay technique was n't foolproof . |
| 17 | Edward , brooding , remembered a summer long ago when Helen had brought back a schoolfriend and he had felt pushed aside , abandoned . |
| 18 | He stood smiling , licking his own with relish , and wiping the ends of his moustaches where the ice dung to them , and you and Lucia , befuddled from your interrupted sleep echoed his gurgles and grunts of pleasure at the taste ; he 'd brought back a tub , filled with a variety of ice creams : ‘ A macedonia ! ’ he 'd call out , a fruit salad of ices . |
| 19 | Between June 3 and June 6 Teddy Taylor , a United Kingdom Conservative MP , informed the UK Foreign Office that he had met with Col. Moamer al Kadhafi and Foreign Minister Ibrahim Bishara on a recent visit to Libya ; he had brought back a " package of proposals " for restoring relations between the two countries , and a £250,000 cheque for a UK police charity from the Libyan police union . |
| 20 | Er am I I brought back a pack full of riveting information for Your Lordships which I have placed in the library , this library , not that library . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It survived a dunking in a mountain stream , and brought back a picture of a retrieving hand to prove it . |
| 23 | Being able to return to William in the evenings brought back a sense of reality and made a difference to the whole trip . |
| 24 | Captain Roy-Smith brought back a breeding pair : the dog was Ajax v Suhrenkamp and the bitch , Berny v Weyher . |
| 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 sole result was that they brought back a hatred of all Europeans , except the Germans , whose courage they admired . |
| 27 | OLYMPIC aces returning from Barcelona this week brought back a very silly story about cycling superstar Chris Boardman : ‘ Have you heard he 's been tested for drugs . ’ |
| 28 | Not finding any , he brought back a group of modern realist pictures which he mounted as a selling exhibition , together with a loan show of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian pictures . |
| 29 | Macnab brought back a favourable reply from Berlin on 21 August . |
| 30 | Once , though , she brought back a young rabbit fresh from its nest . |