Example sentences of "[vb past] bring [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It helped bring to the premiership Pierre Mendès-France , a member of the influential Radical Party and a man of energy who commanded considerable personal loyalty . |
| 2 | But Doreen retained the sulkiness she 'd brought to the table , and when Jean placed fruit and cereal before her there was not the slightest sign of a polite thank-you . |
| 3 | Kalchu climbed on to the roof of the house , and with the flame he 'd brought from the shrine fire set light to the two piles of jharo . |
| 4 | He took out the keys that he 'd brought from the office back home , and opened the door . |
| 5 | ‘ Each dealer knew well the cattle he 'd brought from the Irish villages . |
| 6 | But when William George Barker decided to bring to the screen a stage production of Henry VIII ( 1911 ) , he cut British film production off from the innovations that had gone before . |
| 7 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 8 | His enemies attacked its vulgar over-simplification , but the lecture did bring near the centre of popular debate many of the problems which Moberly had analysed a decade before . |
| 9 | For all those unable to attend the last A.G.M. had brought along the gold necklace and bracelet she had received on her retirement as Society Chairman . |
| 10 | Some were eating , and Ruth guessed that they had broken into the food supplies they had brought for the voyage . |
| 11 | The big bag they had brought for the goose caught between her legs and almost threw her down but she recovered her balance , her feet slipping and sliding . |
| 12 | The tablecloth needed no stones to hold it down and all the plastic bags waited for Betty to put them in the master plastic bag she had brought for the purpose . |
| 13 | We sang Christmas carols in the parlour , recited poems , acted out skits and handed out the Christmas presents we had brought for the people . |
| 14 | One woman , describing herself as a ‘ member of an endangered species — the miner 's wife ’ , movingly portrayed the material and spiritual desolation that pit closures had brought to the South Wales valleys . |
| 15 | Mrs Castle opens her account with a few reflections on the ‘ feminine ’ touch Edward Heath had brought to the redecoration of Chequers and some bitter-sweet memories of 1969 , when she and Wilson had clashed there with trade-union leaders over the In Place of Strife proposals for union reform . |
| 16 | Despite this , the crowds kept coming to Leeds Road , drawn by the success Chapman had brought to the side . |
| 17 | Rauschning 's departure had brought to the fore worries that Danzig was not sharing in the economic recovery about which the Reich newspapers — strictly controlled by the NSDAP — trumpeted so loud . |
| 18 | One innovation she had brought to the village was that , unlike her predecessors , she made a point of visiting every house in the little community . |
| 19 | However , senior officers had it clear in their own minds that the disgrace he had brought to the rank meant he would not be allowed to keep it . |
| 20 | Shortly after , human spokespeople began appearing on Earth , on screen and in person , describing the bounty the Frasque had brought to the system , with special mention of their advanced cryonics facilities . |
| 21 | Which , presently , Meh'Lindi did , ravenously consuming fish , flesh and fowl from out of the stasis-boxes which they had brought to the suite from Jaq 's ship , the Tormentum Malorum , which went by the alias of Sapphire Eagle while they were visiting Stalinvast . |
| 22 | McLeod went on television and said that , in view of Lord Denning 's findings , the three members who had brought to the notice of the House the existence of the rumours about Profumo owed a duty to Profumo to withdraw the charge . |
| 23 | Although I am down , I still have my pride and dignity and so I thought it only right that I should remove all the silverware I had brought to the club from the trophy cabinet : my cycling proficiency medal , the Mitchley Majorettes runners-up trophy I nicked from their carnival float , my Winston Churchill commemorative coin and the photograph of Michel Platini and myself talking football outside Broadcasting House whilst both waiting to secure Bruce Forsyth 's autograph . |
| 24 | He had forgotten the incident , however , the moment they entered the jungle for the first time , riding on the little saddle ponies which Devraux 's Moi bearers had brought to the road from the hunting camp . |
| 25 | But it was not the warmth of the night which kept him awake , nor the hectic business of the day in the office , where they had had to deal with all the additional pressures which the murder had brought to the diocese . |
| 26 | Ihich died of an asthma attack , his family alleging that police refused to give him medicine which they had brought to the police station . |
| 27 | Instead of merchants dealing individually with clients , all wool was to be graded and pooled according to its quality , and profits were to be divided in accordance with the quantity that each had brought to the Staple . |
| 28 | He attacked and defeated the British forces which Riothamus had brought to the Loire in support of the emperor . |
| 29 | At yesterday 's launch of Brook 's Impressions de Pelleas , his reworking of Debussy 's opera , Robert Palmer , Glasgow 's director of performing arts , introduced Brook as ‘ one who had brought to the Tramway the hallmark of excellence and established there a benchmark for others ’ achievement . ’ |
| 30 | Philippa got up from the chair she had brought into the kitchen , went to take the cloth from Lee 's lap , decided against it , and started to wipe up the insidious liquid with tissues . |