Example sentences of "bring [pers pn] [adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is not just the Pope of the Roman Catholics but a symbol of human beings striving to create institutions and practices which bring them closer to the ways of God . |
| 2 | Yes , that was some time ago when I was working as a hostess with the British Council and used to collect meet VIPs at the station and bring them here to the university . |
| 3 | ‘ He says bring them straight to the first tee . |
| 4 | Y'know you a you 're going along and they 'll say group , and you write therapy or something y'know and you 've done it and you think whoops and you just hope , and the worst thing is when they say Smith and Jones and you put seventy nine in and you think , shit and y'know they get the thing slightly wrong Draw up a revision plan , pick out the topics that you 're going to revise Any problems , bring them along to the seminar . |
| 5 | ‘ This will help to redress the balance and bring them back to a positive situation . |
| 6 | Each pupil had to detail a movement in front of the squad pretending to be a drill sergeant and my detail was to get my squad from the stand easy position , slope arms and march them some 50 yards , then bring them back to the original position order arms and stand at ease . |
| 7 | I could see the beginning of cloud formations in the far west that looked as though they might thicken up and , since I wanted to get some shots of the Cove while the light was still good , I set off by Water Sinks , where the water from the Tarn sinks and does n't reappear again until some miles down the valley at Aire Head , and followed the footpath that would take me west of Watlowes dry valley and bring me down to the Cove by the pasture land above the Pennine Way . |
| 8 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 9 | Firefighters have rejected a one point five per cent pay offer bringing them closer to a national strike . |
| 10 | ( d ) The massive body of historical research that has gone on throughout this century has gradually discovered new sources of information and refined our views of the early modern period , in all probability bringing them closer to the objective truth . |
| 11 | He pulls the top part of the metal cover further up , and the lower half sinks at the same time ; he reaches in and gathers an armful of logs , bringing them over to the hearth . |
| 12 | You add all this other information and you constantly do that throughout the 24 hour day by saying that , ‘ it 's 11 o'clock , time for your coffee ’ , ‘ it 's twelve o'clock , it 's time for lunch ’ , and constantly giving your name and bringing them back to the present . ’ |
| 13 | His occupation , which was that of picking up men in a neighbouring public house , with which he had a working arrangement , during the evening hours , and bringing them back to the boat , was not particularly profitable . |
| 14 | For me , there is an immediacy about them , an intimacy , that can bring me closer to the writer than anything else . |
| 15 | As of the end of June 1991 at least six of these statutes were undergoing the process of appeal which would almost certainly bring them eventually to the Supreme Court , where any of them could serve as the occasion for the reversal of the 1973 landmark abortion rights ruling , Roe v. Wade . |
| 16 | They hope the investigation will bring them closer to a re-trial . |
| 17 | erm I think and what I 'll try and do , I 'll try and bring erm , I 've got two on the Thursday and I 'll try and bring them forward to the Monday , cos Monday 's a baker 's day is n't it ? |
| 18 | Reinforcing this quest for the extraordinary , which by definition should bring them quickly to the margins of deviance , is the fact … that one of the frequent rewards of achievement is an immunity to many of the sanctions that constrain and punish the less successful . |
| 19 | Like , when they come in here I 'll bring them down to the canteen and let them have Coke and sweets . |
| 20 | A Rose Hill bus will bring you almost to the door . |
| 21 | I 'd like to just bring you back to the first question you asked , which was how do you define sexual harassment . |
| 22 | Can I just bring you back to the item before us , which is ‘ This Common Inheritance ’ , and ask you to endorse the sub-committees suggestions , i.e. repeat them , as comments from the health committee , with the additions from the vice-chair on environmental protection agency . |
| 23 | erm but ea she would n't bring him over to the phone , she said oh he 's too weak to come to the phone . |
| 24 | At Bethel , the place of the vision of the stairway to heaven , God promised him that he would be with him , that he would keep him wherever he went , that he would bring him back to the Land , and would not leave him . |
| 25 | Do n't bring it over to the first character , leave it exactly where it is . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’ |
| 27 | Will you bring it up to the house tomorrow , instead ? ’ he shouted . |
| 28 | you could bring it round to the corner . |
| 29 | So let's bring it down to a really personal level then . |
| 30 | The end of Genesis did not bring us back to the beginning , but it surely left us heading in the right direction . |