Example sentences of "bring [pers pn] [adv] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An accidental glimpse in a shop window or mirror may bring us up with a jolt . |
| 2 | Yet the glimpse of her on that brief video had n't brought her back with the sharp focus that I craved . |
| 3 | When it had happened four or five times , and he had , perhaps , begun to feel some stirrings of a more disturbing passion , she had brought him up with a catalogue of the men she had had , and made it clear that — if she wanted it that way — there would be more . |
| 4 | His reaction to my essay , on the other hand , brought me up with a jolt ; and although what I had written is of no interest — I seem to have lost the manuscript , so that is the end of the matter — I carne to value his negative appraisals . |
| 5 | Good thing you brought me along with the baggage , you know . |
| 6 | They were to remember where they came from : ‘ Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God brought you out with a strong hand and an outstretched arm . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ They brought her out with a gun in her back , a woman of seventy , and set fire to the place while she watched . |
| 8 | She raised it high in the air and brought it down with a crash right on the top of the wretched Bruce Bogtrotter 's head and pieces flew all over the platform . |
| 9 | erm , so I could n't carry the wallpaper so the lass says well you ca n't carry it , she says I 'll phone you a taxi , I says okay , so she phoned this , she says any , any particular one , I says I 'll have that one beside us like so phoned association , they 'll be erm , you , you know call up and they came and er pick me up and brought us back with the paper , he charged one pound twenty and I 'm saying to myself one pound twenty , that 's a damn disgrace , by hell I 'll not get that taxi again |
| 10 | And just bring it back with a bit of water in it please . |
| 11 | A spearman tried to bring him down with a lance thrust under the cuirass whilst another took a swing with a sword at the joints in the greaves on his legs . |
| 12 | Knowing all about how to have safer sex is of no use if we feel unable to bring it up with a partner . |