Example sentences of "to bring [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may have been a traditional marriage , gift , given to couples to bring them good luck . |
| 2 | As I got older and people used to bring me injured birds to look after , I was always very careful of them and did n't approach without the leather glove I wear when working with birds of prey . |
| 3 | Ven nodded , ‘ When I got back from taking you back to your hotel that Monday , I instructed him to bring me all correspondence to and from Verity magazine . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't forget to bring me some poteen , ’ I said and left it at that . |
| 5 | Kim fought her way through a dozen pairs of clutching hands to bring me another pint of something I had n't asked for but would n't refuse . |
| 6 | I looked down and suddenly realised I had forgotten to bring my own umbrella to work that morning . |
| 7 | The call that particularly mystifies me , when I am subjected to it on journey after journey , is the admonition from catering staff to intending consumers of their junk food to be sure to bring their small change with them . |
| 8 | The Paris Boat Show has always provided the platform from which the French boatbuilding industry has launched its new models , but it was interesting to note that more overseas builders were keen to bring their new products to the attention of the French market . |
| 9 | So , because of the fierce competition , a number of houses are looking at gimmicks to try to bring their new authors to the fore . |
| 10 | On Monday 27 February Fleischmann and Pons were due to bring their working cell to Brigham Young University for the neutron spectrum to be measured , but a graduate student had to go to a funeral and so they suggested it would be better to come at the end of the week instead . |
| 11 | as if there was n't enough unhappiness in the family , they had to bring their petty squabbles into the cemetery with them . |
| 12 | ‘ You get some of your friends to bring their young daughters , ’ he said to his mother . |
| 13 | Previously , the Romans had tried to bring their civil calendar , which like many ancient calendars was based on the moon , into line with the astronomical year based on the sun by adopting a system involving an additional or intercalary month every second year . |
| 14 | At mating , in an operation never exactly described , the sexes are said to bring their genital openings into opposition and release their gametes . |
| 15 | Invite the children to bring their favourite teddy or other cuddly toy . |
| 16 | A church is so short of money that the vicar is asking his flock to bring their own bread and wine to services . |
| 17 | Asking parishioners to bring their own bread and wine is just the start . |
| 18 | Stabling and grazing are offered for a fee at Manor Farm House for people wishing to bring their own horses . |
| 19 | Firstly , karateka are not allowed to bring their own coaches with them to training sessions because experience has shown that the presence of other coaches breaks up the training atmosphere , and causes people to separate to far corners instead of remaining together . |
| 20 | Kenya 's dilemma then became that of finding how to make foreigners welcome whilst forcing them to bring their own capital . |
| 21 | The central empirical question which arises out of this perspective is : How far , in a given set of historical circumstances , do individuals feel constrained to bring their own timetables into line with family time by , for example , postponing certain transitions until the time is more auspicious for the family group as a whole ? |
| 22 | In previous years he had forbidden staff to bring their own booze ‘ so as to avoid making an invidious distinction ’ . |
| 23 | Although a notice had been placed in the chapel stating that the policy was under review , and asking people not to bring their own vases , plaques and large birthday-type cards , two people had objected . |
| 24 | ‘ My senior managers go to the local pub , and the men prefer to bring their own snap . |
| 25 | In their excessive respect for the text they may fail to bring their own ideas and their own critical attention to what they are reading . |
| 26 | In a wartime bulletin of 1942 , staff were advised to urge customers to bring their own receptacles for food shopping , as they had done during the Great War . |
| 27 | These lay down European standards and the member states are required to amend their own national laws so as to bring their own standards into line with the European harmonized standard . |
| 28 | The Football League 's attempts to bring their 14-month search for a chief executive to an early conclusion by choosing between Gordon Taylor of the Professional Footballers ' Association and Arthur Sandford , chief executive of Nottinghamshire county council , look destined to fail . |
| 29 | THE Football League 's attempts to bring their 14-month search for a chief executive to an early conclusion by choosing between Gordon Taylor of the Professional Footballers ' Association and Arthur Sandford , chief executive of Nottinghamshire county council , look destined to fail . |
| 30 | In addition Board and senior managers from other organisations are often called upon to bring their valuable experiences to the Programme . |