Example sentences of "brought [pron] [adv] to date " in BNC.
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| 1 | Connors brought me up to date on his opinion of the guys in the car as I rolled the heap round the first intersection . |
| 2 | Maureen answered straight away , and listened eagerly , giving excited squeaks from time to time as her niece brought her up to date on everything that had happened . |
| 3 | It is incredible that the Labour party , which has reformed itself and brought itself up to date in so many other policies , is going back to an old policy on local government finance . |
| 4 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 5 | She brought him up to date with what had happened . |
| 6 | Walking through the woods at the back of Westfield Manor , Patrick brought him up to date on the burglar who had committed murder to get hold of a packet of letters , and the macabre business of the switched bodies . |
| 7 | As well as adding to the old part of the story , the continuators brought it up to date till the death of Geoffrey le Bel , occasionally slipping into detailed narrative of events : there is a long and useful excursus on the politics of 1118 . |
| 8 | ‘ As you can see , I 've simplified it and brought it up to date … |
| 9 | ‘ In that case it would be better if you brought us up to date with what 's been happening first . ’ |