Example sentences of "and bring [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | As Floy and Snodgrass watched in silence , the Elms stretched out their hard , lichen-crusted branches and brought them down on the prisoner 's shoulders and thighs , at the place where the skin had started to tear . |
| 32 | On a bitterly cold November day , Richard collected Joan and the small , pale , vulnerable bundle and brought them home to the boat . |
| 33 | It deadened his days and brought him upright in the night , running with sweat and fear , his arms held out clutching the gun with which he had just shot his mother . |
| 34 | Somewhere down there he stubbed himself against an ill-defined but hard mass of fact , and brought it up to the surface to examine it . |
| 35 | Owned by Jo Rutherford , Trigo rounded up the milking herd and brought it back to the milking parlour in Devon . |
| 36 | erm , so I could n't carry the wallpaper so the lass says well you ca n't carry it , she says I 'll phone you a taxi , I says okay , so she phoned this , she says any , any particular one , I says I 'll have that one beside us like so phoned association , they 'll be erm , you , you know call up and they came and er pick me up and brought us back with the paper , he charged one pound twenty and I 'm saying to myself one pound twenty , that 's a damn disgrace , by hell I 'll not get that taxi again |
| 37 | Paul Levy 's new television series and book looks at the culinary ghosts of Christmas past and brings them up to the present day |
| 38 | Now , the common understanding of this is that , they 're Christians , these are those who are followers of Jesus , they 're the Christians , and Jesus comes and er , ee er , there 's the little , there 's the one who is wandering away , who 's a stray and Jesus goes after them and brings them back into the fold and so on . |
| 39 | The mother wasp goes out of her burrow , catches and kills a bee ( by stinging ) , and brings it back to the burrow . |
| 40 | The successful communicator selects just those features which differ from this schema , enabling the receiver to adjust it and to bring it closer to the individual instance which is being described . |
| 41 | He has arrived only a short while before , but did not question the order that von Keller gave to Lt Rosen and several men of the 10th Company to remain close to the vehicle and to bring it up to the battalion by road . |