Example sentences of "bring [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why did you bring me down to watch that ? ’ he said gruffly . |
| 2 | and quite honestly , I think they not only do they not bring them up to do , I mean useful like that , but I thought Ken 's his family never showed any affection any warmth , any caring , any love , and I would do anything for anyone if they just say thank you , but with Ken |
| 3 | One of them is a teacher of deaf children at St Mary 's and she loved the old schoolroom at the museum and told me that her class were doing a project on Northern Ireland and she must bring them here to see it all . |
| 4 | ‘ We did not bring them here to sit in the stand , ’ Roxburgh said , although he would not commit himself as to whether either was considered a starter against the French . |
| 5 | The columns for support and supply had been alerted long ago , the clansmen waited only for the signal , and his great seal on the writs his messengers carried would bring them out to join him like bees from a hive disturbed . |
| 6 | One day she would bring them out to read and recollect . |
| 7 | What about getting those children as they go out a voucher that their parents can bring them along to see a show at a reduced rate . |
| 8 | By alternating the process you can then bring them back to complete the song . |
| 9 | More importantly , he was not tonsured : Lothar , perhaps moved by the obligations of a godfather , could not bring himself thus to exclude Charles from the ranks of the throneworthy . |
| 10 | Of course , the real reason is that 900 of his constituents work at Rothmans and he fears for his majority but he ca n't bring himself actually to say so . |
| 11 | Dublin can not bring itself publicly to renounce its territorial claim to the North , while privately living in dread of ever having to acknowledge a direct responsibility for Northern Ireland 's Protestants . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't bring you here to talk about my relationship with Marianne , ’ he cut in brusquely . |
| 13 | I did n't bring you here to upset you . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't bring you here to open up all the old wounds again , ’ he growled at last . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've got this irksome fetish for using the natural colours surrounding a place to decorate the interior — but I did n't bring you here to discuss my schizophrenic choice of living surroundings , Virginia . |
| 16 | Got ta bring him up to scratch . |
| 17 | But of all Koresh 's dubious activities it was gun dealing that would bring him in to conflict with authority . |
| 18 | It 's not quite finished melting yet so I 'll just bring it over to see and have a look , can you see look it 's still all bits , lumps and margarine in it . |
| 19 | Right , will you bring it up to speed . |
| 20 | The man or woman whose marriage is a mess , who seeks a more loving relationship with a succession of lovers , but who can never bring themselves either to leave or be honest with their partner , is caught in a cycle of small deaths with no hope of life . |
| 21 | If a bench of two justices can not bring themselves thus to dispose of the case there was no other sensible construction of section 9(2) then that a bench of three must become seized of the matter , rehear the evidence and comply with the statute , i.e. convict or acquit on the evidence . |