Example sentences of "[vb past] brought [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was confident he 'd brought her to the stage where he could lay her . |
| 2 | The letter had brought them to the surface , where they could hurt more . |
| 3 | It was her deep sorrow and unhappiness at the tragic accident that had brought them to the United States , together with all the fraught , highly charged tension of having to be in Ross 's company for any length of time , which had taken its toll of her already precariously weak reserves of strength . |
| 4 | A line of the malabars , named after the Indian immigrants who had brought them to the colony , had been drawn up under the trees in the square outside the Continental Palace Hotel when they emerged to go to Cholon with Jacques and Paul Devraux to buy the last of their hunting supplies . |
| 5 | Rose , with the same tact as she had brought them to the house , was careful to absent herself from these occasions as much as possible . |
| 6 | They would appear from time to time and taunt the old couple , reminding them of their past lives and the failures or mistakes which had brought them to the castle ( though never detailing them — neither Quiss nor Ajayi knew what the other had done to justify sending them here . |
| 7 | Less than an hour in their company had brought them to the boil . |
| 8 | Outgoing BAIE national chairman Phillipa Burrow , who appeared with her in the BBC studios at Pebble Mill in Birmingham , said the number of cot deaths had fallen by 60 per cent since Anne Diamond had brought them to the attention of the public and the Government . |
| 9 | The transport arranged was the same taxi-driver who had brought them from the airport . |
| 10 | It was pretty much like the cab of the truck that had brought them from the Store . |
| 11 | The slow sexual friction had brought him to the verge of orgasm . |
| 12 | He had served twenty-four years in the US House of Representatives , including nine as Minority Leader of the Republicans , and it was Ford 's popularity on both sides of the aisle that had brought him to the presidency . |
| 13 | They were out on the villa forecourt and Guido was loading the car , the same racy-looking open-top red Alfa Romeo that he had brought her to the villa in on the day of her arrival . |
| 14 | Five minutes later , being positive had brought her to the decision that since time was going to drag heavily while she waited in Mariánské Láznë for Ven to return , and since they had trains in Czechoslovakia , she would go to Prague too . |
| 15 | Rune had brought her to the home he 'd shared with Lotta for — how long ? |
| 16 | But his continuing silence had brought her to the conclusion that he was content , with both his semi-bachelor life and his affair with his personal assistant , an affair he was still obviously continuing , she thought grimly , recalling the phone call he 'd received from his ‘ personal assistant ’ in Liz 's apartment earlier this morning . |
| 17 | The following unusual use of to provides further confirmation of this : ( 25 ) She waited , Kate Croy , for her father to come in , but he kept her unconscionably , and there were moments at which she showed herself , in the glass over the mantel , a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him . |
| 18 | From out of nowhere , Ruth remembered Dick Parker : but not , this time , the pleasure of her union with him , only the pain it had brought her on the Christmas Eve following . |
| 19 | Then , after she had taken her tour of Nightmare City , they had brought her into the middle of town and dumped her . |
| 20 | If I had ever thought of the possibility of being taken prisoner while I was in England , I should have expected all Germans to be like the officer who had tried to interrogate me at the aerodrome or the two soldiers who had brought me from the aerodrome to Amsterdam . |
| 21 | At the Regina station Mr Murray insisted on climbing up into the engine tender to shake hands with and thank the engineer and fireman who had brought us through the storm on this far-from-ordinary journey . |
| 22 | He had brought it in the hope of finding a second-hand saddle of his own . |
| 23 | Greg had brought it from the side-table for her . |