Example sentences of "brought [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tablecloth needed no stones to hold it down and all the plastic bags waited for Betty to put them in the master plastic bag she had brought for the purpose . |
| 2 | Some were eating , and Ruth guessed that they had broken into the food supplies they had brought for the voyage . |
| 3 | If the judgments in that case are looked at , it will be found that Willes J. said , in explaining the grounds of his judgment that under circumstances like those of the present case , the debt is gone , because it would be a fraud upon the stranger who pays part of a debt in discharge of the whole , that an action should be brought for the debt . |
| 4 | This procedure applies to actions brought for the recovery of a sum , in either contract or tort , not exceeding £1000 . |
| 5 | The big bag they had brought for the goose caught between her legs and almost threw her down but she recovered her balance , her feet slipping and sliding . |
| 6 | ‘ ( 1 ) An action to recover any sum recoverable by virtue of any enactment shall not be brought after the expiration of six years from the date on which the cause of action accrued . |
| 7 | Evidence might also be brought of the amount of time spent performing the function , the consequences of it not being performed by the job-holder , the relevant terms of any collective agreements , the work experience of past holders of the position , and the current work experience of co-workers in similar jobs . |
| 8 | Generally , a broad-band radio receiver works best with the receiver held in the air , with the signal fading away when the aerial is brought near the ground . |
| 9 | Ratepayers face a £40 , bill for the case brought against the council — and which it won . |
| 10 | There are several elisions and errors sprinkled throughout Mummies : Hoving 's appearance before the search committee prior to his appointment as director was clinched , according to Hoving , by his disclosure of legal charges being brought against the Museum by the N.Y . |
| 11 | This same charge had first been brought against the sequel , More about the Language of Love , which was refused a certificate by the BBFC but granted a local ‘ X ’ by the GLC . |
| 12 | The questions were raised in proceedings brought against the Secretary of State for Transport by Factortame Ltd. and other companies incorporated under the laws of the United Kingdom , and also the directors and shareholders of those companies , most of whom are Spanish nationals ( hereinafter together referred to as ‘ the applicants in the main proceedings ’ ) . |
| 13 | DSC Communications Corp , Dallas has seen off a shareholder suit brought against the company and some of its officers in 1991 over the problems some of the Baby Bells had with the software for the MegaHub Signal Transfer Point : the suit has been dismissed without prejudice and the motion to certify class action status for it has been declared moot . |
| 14 | In October a Supreme Court ruling had cleared the way for criminal charges to be brought against the company and its officials [ see p. 38532 ] . |
| 15 | The background to the case lay in two allegations brought against the company in respect of incidents which had occurred in 1990 at their Newton Aycliffe factory , where microwave ovens were manufactured . |
| 16 | Alfred McAlpine Construction Limited pleaded guilty at Bicester Magistrates Court today ; the prosecution was brought against the company by the National Rivers Authority . |
| 17 | On 17 March the rejection by the Commission for Racial Equality of the case brought against the school was reported . |
| 18 | The case is one of the biggest suits ever brought against the drug industry . |
| 19 | Police say charges may be brought against the driver . |
| 20 | On all business letters , etc. there must be included an address within Great Britain where , in the event of legal proceedings being brought against the proprietor , documents may be served . |
| 21 | The other related campaign in which Mrs Whitehouse was involved at this time — and more centrally than in the OZ case — was the prosecution brought against the publisher of a book of advice for schoolchildren called The Little Red Schoolbook . |
| 22 | There are two provisos as follows : ( 1 ) execution will not issue against either property or persons without leave of the court where the proceedings have been brought against the firm by one of its members or by another firm having partners in common with the firm against which or against the partners of which execution is sought ; ( 2 ) execution will not issue against a partner if he is out of the jurisdiction at the date when the proceedings were commenced unless he has acknowledged service or was duly served within the jurisdiction as a partner or outside the jurisdiction after leave had been obtained to so serve him . |
| 23 | This allegation seems never to have been proved , but , in connected proceedings brought against the sheriff of Surrey , a jury found that Inge had borrowed the plaintiff 's original writ from the sheriff and tampered with it . |
| 24 | Though he says the courts here are subservient to the regime , he is now fighting a lawsuit he has brought against the Department of Lands . |
| 25 | The recent libel action brought against THE FACE by Jason Donovan has left the magazine in a position of serious debt . |
| 26 | At the House of Lords hearing , the QC appearing for the Attorney General made it clear the law lords ' ruling meant no case could be brought against the hospital or medical staff involved . |
| 27 | ( 3 ) Nothing in this section shall enable any action — ( a ) to recover , or recover the value of , any property ; or ( b ) to enforce any charge against , or set aside any transaction affecting , any property ; to be brought against the purchaser of the property or any person claiming through him in any case where the property has been purchased for valuable consideration by an innocent third party since the fraud or concealment of ( as the case may be ) the transaction in which the mistake was made took place … |
| 28 | Under the 1987 Act a claim can be brought against the producer , the own-brander or the importer . |
| 29 | It was held that no claim could be brought against the defendant for failing to load because the contract had been frustrated by illegality before the time for loading . |
| 30 | Condition 13 makes it clear that a claim brought against the carrier by the customer is subject to strict time limits ; in the case of loss from or damage to a package , the customer must advise the carrier of his claim in writing within three days and the claim must be made within seven days . |