Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I got right into it the first couple of series .
2 The faster she got away from him the better , for her sanity if nothing else .
3 This incident brought home to him the great contrast between his father 's uprightness and the godlessness of those who sneered at him .
4 The War itself , in which he served , brought home to him the ruthless destructiveness of man as weapon or mere machine .
5 The War itself , in which he served , brought home to him the ruthless destructiveness of man as weapon or mere machine .
6 And yesterday their lawyer told the Old Bailey : ‘ It brought home to them the serious nature of what they had done . ’
7 He saw ahead of him the bowed back of Byrkin , hunched head in hands with an empty bowl in front of him on the table .
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