Example sentences of "brought [adv prt] a " 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 | She frequently took pity on me and brought along a few choice dishes from home for my delectation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The promoter of the tournament went further : ‘ It 's time the PGA brought in a disciplinary element for this sort of behaviour . |
| 11 | After an unsatisfactory performance in the Reading Head a month ago , Oxford brought in a relatively inexperienced stroke , Ian Gardiner , who learnt his rowing at Oxford , and the Dark Blues immediately became a force to be reckoned with . |
| 12 | But when BT introduced its computer service , it also brought in a charge of 43p per inquiry and , as a matter of policy , would not give addresses . |
| 13 | But of course he was right about the trouser bit because Nan had a gay disposition and a very pretty face ; what he would n't admit to was that she brought in a lot of custom at the week-end , especially when there was a boat in and some of the sailors would make their way up from the quayside and spend freely on chocolate or toffee for their girls . |
| 14 | In these sessions they practised their kicking and wheeling ; John brought in a sergeant-major to train them in military marching . |
| 15 | Actually we were n't married at the time , so we had to get married straight away and find some money to buy a house and so on , and Daddy had to give up acting and find a real job , one that brought in a regular income . |
| 16 | He brought in a new interior designer , Ghislaine Belmont-Laon ; her work on these showrooms made her name . |
| 17 | The first was the arrival of the Portuguese sailors , who brought in a whole load of European and even North African musical influences , as well as early forms of the ukulele and the guitar . |
| 18 | But at least it brought in a lot of new business for the organisation which now likes to call itself the listening bonk . |
| 19 | In 1947 , Government was in the hands of the Labour Party and in August they brought in a Bill to nationalise all public transport , including the main line railways , the larger bus companies and London Transport . |
| 20 | Lily brought in a silver tray with tea and sandwiches and one of Mary 's marvellous sponge cakes . |
| 21 | Two years ago he brought in a Commons Bill ( which , sadly , failed ) to try to clamp down on the boy racers . |
| 22 | I did n't want to wear glasses , and I was thinking how I could get out of it but finally they brought in a bunch of pairs of glasses and I was trying them on in the mirror , and I tried on a pair and I thought , ‘ Gee , these do n't look too bad ’ . |
| 23 | By what I can gather they must have lived in Durham for a time , 'cos when she was saying her prayers she brought in a Mrs Melburn , a parson 's wife , who was kind to them after the father died or whatever , an' from what I made out of her jabbering the woman and the mother have written to each other . |
| 24 | They brought in a white guy to replace him . |
| 25 | Prior to 1965 , women were employed more frequently , usually as part of a family unit , but when the Rivera regime ( 1962–7 ) brought in a minimum wage for permanent agricultural workers , many estate owners stopped hiring women . |
| 26 | Salah brought in a plate of watermelon pieces . |
| 27 | Acting on a hunch , she brought in a low-frequency recorder and found that infrasound was emanating from its forehead . |
| 28 | Branson brought in a travel consultant , Douglas Paul , from Virgin 's own travel agency subsidiary , All Star Travel , to report on the situation . |
| 29 | Then they brought in a couple of supporting interrogators and gave me the third degree . |
| 30 | They , they brought in a heap of people to disassemble these rockets and inspectors as er examined every , every part of the rockets . |