Example sentences of "brought [pers pn] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your brother nicked three er bottles of lager and brought them round to my house on Saturday . |
| 2 | The cumulative revelation of an ordered universe convinced most Rational Dissenters , following Newton , that greater understanding brought them closer to God through familiarity with His design . |
| 3 | Edward picked them up and brought them over to where we were . |
| 4 | The chestnut-seller laid out the chestnuts on the grating to cool and then brought them over to Owen and Georgiades . |
| 5 | I says , they have a hotel there , so I brought them up to the hotel and took them , he went in and he made arrangements to stay there and then I took them over and let them see this lake dwell this crannagh as they call it . |
| 6 | I made sure I got some of the white powder on my fingertips and not making a big deal of it , brought them up to my tongue . |
| 7 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 8 | He led the People of Israel out of slavery in Egypt , led them through the Red Sea , led them forty years in the wilderness and brought them safely to Palestine , Eretz Yisroel . ’ |
| 9 | They took his men , restored them to health , and brought them safely to Pasaje , where they were nearly taken by the Spanish , but eventually they reached England at the end of 1583 to find that Edward Hayes [ q.v. ] , whose Golden Hind was the only vessel to survive , accused Clerke of having cast away the Delight . |
| 10 | Once I brought them home to our flat , they soon lost their bounce and the doctor became a regular visitor . |
| 11 | On a bitterly cold November day , Richard collected Joan and the small , pale , vulnerable bundle and brought them home to the boat . |
| 12 | The field ambulance minibus ran the boys down into town , and brought them back to camp in hourly shuttles until 0300 hours . |
| 13 | Kate brought them back to Plumford . |
| 14 | Comment from Morton Westlake centred on how jolly good the scones were , how you could get a jolly food tea at the Waldorf in London , and the astronomical prices which some had paid for their seats at the forthcoming Test match at Lord's. it was the Old Stager who brought them back to the match in hand . |
| 15 | They brought them back to the motel . |
| 16 | The illegal payments scandal brought them down to earth with a bump and down into the 3rd division . |
| 17 | We ordered pints of bitter and ploughman 's lunches and he brought them personally to us as we sat in the bay window-seat of the public bar . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's nothing I 've done that I 'm ashamed of , Cleg , ’ she said softly , ‘ my father brought me up to be respectable and that 's what I am . ’ |
| 19 | Connors brought me up to date on his opinion of the guys in the car as I rolled the heap round the first intersection . |
| 20 | ‘ My parents brought me up to — ’ |
| 21 | ‘ My parents might have spent every penny they earned on helping their out-of-work friends , but Gran brought me up to be thrifty and never to get into debt . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 23 | Instinct alone brought me back to alertness , a warning pulse from the innermost guardian of my being . |
| 24 | The touch of the hard floor brought me back to reality . |
| 25 | Later that evening , when I was almost asleep , the sound of a crowd brought me back to full consciousness . |
| 26 | Kāli 's voice brought me back to earth . |
| 27 | Mark 's voice brought me back to my own predicament . |
| 28 | That damn' word brought me back to the harsh reality of my situation : not just the discovery of a traitor or bringing a murderer to book but vengeance for Agnes and , of course , the Herculean task which the Great Killer had assigned me ! |
| 29 | Reading the submission of the Ulster Unionist party brought me back to a comment made by the right hon. Member for Lagan Valley ( Mr. Molyneaux ) , the leader of the Ulster Unionist party , during the first sitting of the Northern Ireland Committee on 13 June . |
| 30 | ‘ It was because you brought me back to life . |