Example sentences of "brought [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a final gamble Bournemouth brought on a towering central defender , John Williams , as a striker — but Sunderland held on . |
| 2 | The death of Mackay 's mother in 1902 brought on a depression from which he was delivered only by his dedication to his new cause , that of championing ‘ the nameless love ’ , as he called it . |
| 3 | ‘ The strain of it all brought on a heart attack . |
| 4 | This was a cardboard cylinder with a light bulb inside , which rotated and sent out pulses which purportedly brought on a transcendental state . |
| 5 | To a substantial crowd gathered on the office steps , she enthusiastically brought on the candidate : ‘ I want to introduce to you , possibly — is n't that wonderful — the next president of the United States . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He had long been in a bad state of health , which he took no care to repair but on the contrary lived in such a manner as greatly promoted the disorders he had had long upon him , this brought on the Flux which put a period to his life ’ ( Cook ) . |
| 7 | ‘ It happened in the gym of this club right in the middle of my training , ’ he recalled , ‘ but it was not the training that brought on the attack although I had probably overdone things . |
| 8 | She frequently took pity on me and brought along a few choice dishes from home for my delectation . |
| 9 | For his last session , which was about cannabis , the sergeant brought along a whacking great sample of the stuff which he placed on the lecture bench in front of him . |
| 10 | John Dunford , Philip King and John Kennedy had had this idea to record me ‘ live ’ in a pub , so they brought down a mobile unit to Winkles Hotel in Kinvara , and we were all there for three or four days . |
| 11 | He opened his mouth to speak but his words were drowned by a volley of musket fire nearby and the crash of a round shot which brought down a shower of plaster on the heads of his audience . |
| 12 | He had Lucia 's father 's body brought down a fiendish spiral staircase to centre stage — the singer was convinced that his bearers would drop him , so Menotti 's secretary had to play the corpse — and the opera closed in a graveyard cloaked in drifting snow . |
| 13 | They blew power lines , blocked roads , derailed six trains , destroyed a large number of vehicles of various kinds , brought down an enemy aircraft , and killed 220 German troops , including a general . |
| 14 | Now Will brought down an old van er which was scrap it was quite a good body I mean and he painted on it , We 're still open , er something like , Despite Transport and General Workers ' Union picketing we are fully open , and he plonked this van with no wheels on it just the body right th in the entrance of th on his own ground naturally er right in front of the pickets which was like you know tantalizing . |
| 15 | To hear some people talk , you would think such things are all in a jumbled undifferentiated past , much as the Louis XIV 's palace of Versailles with its real hall of mirrors now also houses Jacques-Louis David 's massive celebrations of Napoleon and of the revolution which brought down the Bourbons . |
| 16 | Two hours flew by before Justin Feltham 's Tiny Tim brought down the curtain with his ‘ and God bless us , every one . ’ |
| 17 | The ghosts of Bannockburn walked abroad , as Scotland 's rugby team brought down the much-fancied England XV at Murrayfield by 13–7 and scooped all the prizes from the five-nations international championship . |
| 18 | Most damningly , it was the SDLP which brought down the last Labour Government . |
| 19 | Fitt brought down the Labour Government because Labour had increased Northern Ireland 's representation at Westminster from 12 to 17 seats . |
| 20 | Gerry Fitt with the full support of his party brought down the last Labour government over a decision which greatly enhanced the SDLP 's standing . |
| 21 | The Balkans underwent successive crises of competing nationalisms , one of which finally brought down the pre-1914 structure of European power . |
| 22 | The first attempt to drive up the cost of travelling by road brought down the government . |
| 23 | When the revolutions of 1989 brought down the eastern bloc dictatorships , they swept away the façade of historical half-truths , distortions and lies on which the ruling élites grounded their legitimacy . |
| 24 | Michael Heseltine , The Man Who Brought Down Mrs Thatcher , and last week the man who brought down the house in a dazzling Commons performance . |
| 25 | That unrest brought down the government of Prime Minister V P Singh . |
| 26 | But what was the nature of the opposition , in particular from the Municipal Alliance , which had in 1900 brought down the first labour council in West Ham ? |
| 27 | The Oscar-winner 's shock decision brought down the curtain on a glittering 30-year screen career . |
| 28 | In late September 1934 , Gil Robles brought down the government and the CEDA was admitted to a reformed cabinet . |
| 29 | Must have been caused by the explosion that brought down the plane or by the impact of striking the water . ’ |
| 30 | The treaty was eventually ratified but the crisis brought down the Kishi government and produced the most widespread political protests of the postwar years . |