Example sentences of "to bring [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owners of lands in the forests were henceforth to be allowed to bring them into cultivation and to make mills , fishponds and other constructions outside the covert , to agist their pigs in their woods at their pleasure , and to have all the eyries and honey in them . |
| 2 | By design they had entered the grounds quite close to the front entrance , and they angled their progress so as to bring them into contact with the main driveway as quickly as possible . |
| 3 | The fact that the area is an expanding and highly mobile community with a high percentage of nominal church-goers means that it is relatively easy to bring them into church services . |
| 4 | It helps to bring them into consciousness and accept them . |
| 5 | He came to understand the need to settle for half a loaf rather than nothing at all ; he recognized the need to negotiate with legislators while he also discovered how to bring them into line by going over their heads to the people . |
| 6 | The remedial programme should aim to make up the deficit in primary and community health services in the capital , to bring them into line with national standards . |
| 7 | The long ones can be shortened to bring them into line , and broken ends tidied up by clean cutting . |
| 8 | When moderate areas , principally Nottinghamshire , failed to comply , Yorkshire miners tried to bring them into line by picketing their pits . |
| 9 | Having previously studied in Canada and the US , Johnston felt that there was a need for positive discrimination within UK colleges in order to bring them into line with educational standards abroad . |
| 10 | The Customs and Excise , with all its ancillary departments , were forced to re-structure their systems to bring them into line with European countries and this reorganisation took place over the next few years . |
| 11 | He tends to pick on new people a bit at first to bring them into line . |
| 12 | ABC will be conducting a review of employee benefits to bring them into line with those of ABC ( i.e. pensions ) ; |
| 13 | Under a presidential decree of Aug. 6 , oil and gas export prices were deregulated so as to bring them into line with world prices . |
| 14 | As they involved a great deal of the same work to bring them into effect — work that would have taken a considerable time — and would have imposed further contingent or actual liabilities on funds at a time when there was already considerable anxiety because of the uncertainty over the Barber judgment — |
| 15 | They accept the forces that tend to bring them into equilibrium with their surroundings . |
| 16 | They were greatly upset , but discussion was cut short as his father had to drive to Glasgow to meet Joan , his sister , and John , her husband , to bring them to Fife to spend the festive season . |
| 17 | First , because the Barclays ( Asia ) allegations are so old — and so unnecessarily old — that it would be an abuse of process now to bring them to trial . |
| 18 | The Supreme Court ruled on June 15 that the US government could legally abduct people from foreign countries in order to bring them to trial in the USA . |
| 19 | as if waiting for a command to bring them to life , Trent thought . |
| 20 | The recordings of the stories use an interesting variety of voices and sound effects to bring them to life . |
| 21 | Instead it plays with the ‘ death of reading ’ , for novels have always relied on the reader to bring them to life . |
| 22 | The kinds of worlds that can be created are limited only by the multimedia software designed to generate them and the computer processing power available to bring them to life . |
| 23 | We were closely involved in trying to set up the transport arrangements : we had to get the airforce to ferry the pieces from Phnom Penh to Bangkok and then the Australian national carrier Qantas to bring them to Australia . ’ |
| 24 | In January 1986 , President Reagan had signed a secret directive — ‘ They can run , but they ca n't hide ’ — instructing the octopus to identify terrorists responsible for crimes against American citizens abroad and to bring them to justice in US courts . |
| 25 | Fortunately , many of these loopholes are now being closed by new amendments and , hopefully , there will be less frustration for the law-enforcers who , in the past , have seen many villains slip through the net after they have worked hard to bring them to justice . |
| 26 | The campaign revolved around the issue of whether negotiations with the drug cartels to end the current violence should take precedence over efforts to bring them to justice . |
| 27 | He added : ‘ I know the RUC rightly go after all killers with equal determination to bring them to justice , regardless of any circumstance , and they never give up . |
| 28 | ‘ I share those feelings to the utmost and I know the RUC rightly go after all killers with equal determination to bring them to justice regardless of any circumstances and they never give up . ’ |
| 29 | Thousands of fires were reported to be burning , and in many cases firefighters were attacked while attempting to bring them under control . |
| 30 | After martial law had failed to bring them under control , there came a last military experiment with the designation of General Azhari to succeed Sharif-Emami . |