Example sentences of "she [vb past] brought him " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ God , ’ her husband said , whenever she 'd brought him home before her father died , ‘ what a bloody awful climate … ’ |
| 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 | Suddenly , Nigel felt annoyed by her manner and by the fact that she had brought him nothing . |
| 4 | Daniel had explained to her that he liked very simple food that he could eat with one hand , because of his inability to eat without reading , and so , for supper his first night , she had brought him scrambled egg on a piece of toast that she had already cut up into precise and helpful squares . |
| 5 | All the same , if it happened that David made her with child , she would bear the child proudly , and be glad that she had brought him a degree of happiness . |
| 6 | When it had happened four or five times , and he had , perhaps , begun to feel some stirrings of a more disturbing passion , she had brought him up with a catalogue of the men she had had , and made it clear that — if she wanted it that way — there would be more . |