Example sentences of "brought up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also brought up the art quote of the year , from one Ziff Fistrunk ( no , I do not make up the name ) , director of the Southside Chicago Sports Council , who organised the protest : ‘ I have trained players in Little League and semi-pro baseball , and at no time did I train them naked . ’ |
| 2 | When Sara returned they drank the ale and she brought up the subject of an increased allowance for her and the children . |
| 3 | One evening at Pack Meeting about two weeks before Christmas , Christine brought up the subject of Miss Miggs during Pow-wow . |
| 4 | Finally , when Schisgal had returned to his interrupted slumbers , Mortimer and Yates brought up the subject of the purpose of their visit . |
| 5 | Later that evening when they were seated comfortably in the bar Mary brought up the subject of the eerie feeling in the cutting ; they agreed it had been a most disturbing experience and that there must be some explanation . |
| 6 | In an address to a potentially hostile assembly of Protestant ministers , he brought up the subject of his religion and emphasized his belief in a strict separation of the affairs of state and those of the church . |
| 7 | It was Damian , the Dysons ' younger son , who first brought up the subject of marriage . |
| 8 | ‘ It was you who brought up the subject , ’ he pointed out crisply . |
| 9 | On the subject of boyfriends Shiona was notoriously sensitive , and doubly so , it appeared , when Jake brought up the subject . |
| 10 | She brought up the subject of an inquest on a man who had hanged himself . |
| 11 | She brought up the subject of an inquest on a man who had hanged himself . |
| 12 | I brought up the question of bans and proscriptions and Sinclair finally stated that no red flags or ‘ unauthorised ’ slogans will be permitted . |
| 13 | While she had Stephen to herself , Tamar brought up the question of the name . |
| 14 | In an interview with the Chinese-language newspaper Wen Wei Po in Hong Kong on 21 April 1991 , Gyaltsen Norbu , chairman of the government of the autonomous region of Tibet , brought up the case of Lobsang Tenzin : |
| 15 | In a misguided attempt to impress the veteran American producer , I brought up the name of Jaume Sisa : a songwriter I once met by chance in a bar in Barcelona , and a man whose work is considered obscure even in Catalonia . |
| 16 | And they watched from the sidelines as Mr and Mrs Grierson between them brought up the baby , Carla . |
| 17 | When she returned with the money he brought up the matter of the dog's-tooth suit . |
| 18 | I phoned Debby to get Steven 's phone number to get him to leave out the microphone and the amplifier and then he brought up the microphone and did n't bring up the amplifier . |
| 19 | Well they just er they just forked them they they brought up the side what I said the boss , you see . |
| 20 | Bachelor 's Button and Pretty Polly brought up the rear . |
| 21 | The Colonel brought up the rear . |
| 22 | The rest of his party brought up the rear , baiting and goading Ranulf , who gave as good as he got with a stream of obscene English oaths . |
| 23 | After going a couple of hundred yards over open ground , the road entered very thick forest , and here I made the men walk in front while I brought up the rear . |
| 24 | Grant brought up the rear , using his arms only to haul himself up the rope . |
| 25 | Troop Sergeant Haines brought up the rear as the raiders moved towards the Old Entrance lock bridge ( 'G' ) but had first to swing north round the buildings on the east of the basin . |
| 26 | Stephen carried the small portable barbecue and coals , whilst James brought up the rear with the ice-box full of food , wine and local Banks ' beer . |
| 27 | Miss Fergusson , umbrella aloft and pistol at her belt led the way with the certain tread of the righteous ; Miss Logan , dangling her bag of lemons , struggled to keep up as the terrain grew more precipitous ; their Kurdish guide , weighed down with baggage , brought up the rear . |
| 28 | Oliver , looking bored , brought up the rear . |
| 29 | Luib and Belig brought up the rear , and the two wolves loped alongside . |
| 30 | Merchants came next , men and women , then a prostitute ; a beggar brought up the rear , these allegorical figures representing the inescapable gradations of decay . |