Example sentences of "[vb past] bring to the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Despite this , the crowds kept coming to Leeds Road , drawn by the success Chapman had brought to the side . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The male chimps hunted with spectacular success , catching a big colobus monkey , which they had to bring to the ground to eat , rather than remaining in the trees as they usually do . |