Example sentences of "was bring [adv prt] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raoul Walsh was brought over from the US to direct O.H.M.S . |
| 2 | Following her sister 's death in early infancy , her parents ' divorce when she was three years old , and her mother 's remarriage , Marguerite was brought up at the Earls Court residence of her mother and her mother 's third husband , Albert Visetti , a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London . |
| 3 | At first the ideas appeared as rumours and reports : that , although it had not yet been announced , the US had already taken steps to halt the fighting ; that , in Washington , ambassador Bonnet had been called in and told that a settlement was imperative ; that if the matter was brought up in the UN the US would not necessarily support France ; that the US wished to ensure that no Lend-Lease weapons were being used ‘ to suppress Vietnam — although it was suspected they were ; and that the head of Southeast Asian Affairs at the State Department ( Mr A.L. |
| 4 | Frank was brought up in the Hollywood studio tradition and expected producers to exert a large amount of control , but Lester 's lack of freedom did not stop him changing parts of the script — including all of Gawford 's scenes — and reducing the number of songs . |
| 5 | The one on Parson 's Green was brought down by the ARP boys and packed tidily away , and then we were granted an AA gun , all to ourselves . |
| 6 | In the past where an item had been lost , stolen , destroyed or damaged which was originally purchased abroad , and the Policyholder admitted that the item was brought in to the U.K. without being declared at H.M. Customs then the extent of our liability was the value of the item less the amount of duty payable . |
| 7 | In 1988 Mr Kevin Gavaghan was brought in from the Burton Group , a British clothes retailer , to be the bank 's marketing director . |
| 8 | Although this was brought about by the Gulf War and the subsequent world recession , it is certainly now exacerbated by an unrestrained and reckless war of attrition in which dollars are hauled over the top of the grain of a few inches of market share . |