Example sentences of "brought [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never again , except in the nostalgic hopefulness of a few — would the ceremonies be performed ; gone were the offerings , the blood-shedding , the fire and incense , the gorgeous ( and the plain ) robes , and the rest of the sacred imagery which ‘ fenced-off ’ God 's otherness from the people — and brought them close to him in awe and penitence . |
| 2 | In The Use of Poetry we see how by a reworking of his earlier , anthropologically inspired stress on poets as connected to the primitive man , Eliot adapted nineteenth-century views of the poet 's task and brought them into his own later poetry . |
| 3 | My screams of terror awoke my parents and brought them rushing in panic to my room . |
| 4 | And there was a further link between rogues , masterless men , and the players ; according to some observers the theatres quite literally brought them into association , being the place ‘ for vagrant persons , Masterless men , thieves … contrivers of treason , and other idle and dangerous persons to meet together ’ ( Chambers , Elizabethan Stage , iv . |
| 5 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 6 | The story recalled in Chapter 2 of a stranger named Chipimbi who came to live amongst the Lamba of Zambia , and brought them seeds of maize , sorghum and groundnuts , was one such hero . |
| 7 | He said it with a heavy emphasis which brought them all close to tears but the mood was soon scattered by all the joyful preparations Rose had planned . |
| 8 | In the case of Sikh women it was the day-to-day racism which their husbands faced in Britain which indirectly brought them to Britain ; with Pakistanis and Bangladeshis it was the racism of Britain 's Immigration laws . |
| 9 | In the last fifteen years successive laws have provided a continuing escalation in racism , irrespective of the government which brought them in . |
| 10 | The field ambulance minibus ran the boys down into town , and brought them back to camp in hourly shuttles until 0300 hours . |
| 11 | Among a series of films designed to cash in on the success of Hitchcock 's Psycho ( 1960 ) , for example , was Seth Holt 's The Nanny ( 1965 ) , made with the visual flair of his earlier Hammer picture , Taste of Fear ( 1961 ) , and telling the powerful tale of two sisters , both dependent in their own way on the woman who brought them up , who pay no attention to the declarations of their son and nephew that it was nanny who killed his sister and now wants to kill him . |
| 12 | We brought them over from County Antrim in Northern Ireland for an expenses-paid trip to London and an image transformation by haircare experts from Wella . |
| 13 | It declared them educable , took them out of their own homes and hospitals and brought them into full-time schooling . |
| 14 | But the formula which brought them together was widely , and justifiably , condemned as unwieldy and tedious . |
| 15 | Great Britain , for their part , will be looking to recapture the many admirable qualities which brought them that improbable victory after Steve Hampson 's early dismissal reduced them to 12 men . |
| 16 | However , a free-kick from Nevin nearly brought them a goal immediately before Pearce should have given Forest the lead . |
| 17 | Against Fareham the juniors trailed 2-1 at half-time , but a change of tactics brought them a 6-2 win . |
| 18 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh ! the bones ! ’ said Flora , and brought them from the kitchen — in a Harrods ' bag . |
| 20 | Such a nice young American brought them for us . |
| 21 | These I knew well were not what her whim had remembered , and when I brought them to her she said nothing , but put them aside , sadly shaking her head . |
| 22 | The white calico drawers would be standard wear , laundered all together , and I knew , having realized that none of the patients wore their dental plates , that there was no place here for black lace with rosebuds — nor if I brought them would they be long in her possession . |
| 23 | By that time her clothes were dry , and we brought them in and I ironed them and hung them in the sun again , this time to air . |
| 24 | ‘ Maybe Jos brought them in his van , ’ Mungo said , looking round , hoping to make her smile again . |
| 25 | Sheer surprise brought them both down , winding them temporarily . |
| 26 | The engagements used to go to the artists who brought them back the best presents from their tours abroad . |
| 27 | And they brought young children to him , that he should touch them : and his disciples rebuked those that brought them . |
| 28 | When my mother and a friend came to visit me at Wolverton I brought them to Cambridge and , with the confidence of inexperience , I took them punting on the river . |
| 29 | Probably Moxie brought them . |
| 30 | What evidence is there that these overt policies and covert assumptions have outlived the political and economic structures which brought them into being ? |