Example sentences of "brought on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The news that she was married , and the awful fear he had experienced , brought on a fever . |
| 2 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 3 | If a Japanese firm were brought on a tour around West Belfast they would see all the barbed wire and be discouraged . |
| 4 | And then , his right hand , rising to undo the buttons of her high-collared black dress , his other arm unconsciously straining her to him , closer and closer so that she could feel his arousal brought on a memory so dreadful to McAllister , a memory which she had fought against for months — and fear suddenly won the battle . |
| 5 | We thought the bumpy flight must have brought on a bout of air-sickness , but it was not so . |
| 6 | The greatest balm he could bring , brought on a knife-point . |
| 7 | Exhaust fumes made her drowsy and brought on a headache and pains in her eyes . |
| 8 | Most of us who 've been on this council some years will have seen the stress that the labour party brought on a number of senior officers who felt obliged to leave in what I would call distressing circumstances . |
| 9 | Whether they worked or not , the potions had a serious and potentially fatal side-effect : ‘ these stimulating drugs , ’ wrote Manucci , brought on a retention of ‘ urine … for three days Shah Jehan was almost at death 's door . ’ |
| 10 | At a time of stress they were his comfort , and any warning light , even the ‘ No Smoking ’ sign , brought on an attack of stress . |
| 11 | Somehow Dr Neil 's touch did not seem to affect her as badly as that of most men , even though in the cab home sitting so near to him nearly brought on the kind of faintness which she had felt on the walk home from church . |
| 12 | Now new presssure is being brought on the government . |
| 13 | Careless talk or dark allegations about the true intent of such moderate measures as the Registry Act by slave-owners themselves in Barbados had brought on the trouble there in 1816 . |
| 14 | He had just returned after a 3-day affair with another woman which had brought on the crisis . |
| 15 | The Unitarian minister and editor Edwin Chapman underlined that desire to overcome separation when in his thanksgiving sermon on Emancipation Day in 1834 he proclaimed that it was the Christian principle evinced by all the sects and parties which had brought on the victory . |
| 16 | v. Stanford said that the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher does not extend to making the owner of land liable for the consequences of the escape of a dangerous element brought on the owner 's land by another person , not for the purposes of the owner but for the purposes of that other person . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not saying I did n't lift my arm and I 'm sorry for the embarrassment it has brought on the club and our supporters . |
| 18 | One is that the not guilty verdict was brought on the understanding that she sought medical help in a psychiatric hospital , and that poor Jane finished her days in Broadmoor . |