Example sentences of "bring [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " 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 ‘ We bring them inside in the bad weather .
5 A member of the local parish community will collect your son/daughter from home , bring him/her to SPRED then bring him/her home at the end of the session .
6 ( 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 .
7 Above and top : Polypterus ornatipinnis — even a large pair of these were not beyond Derek 's ingenuity when it came to bringing them home from the USA .
8 This latter period saw the creation of a labour code ( 1943 ) limiting the functioning of unions to a local and plant level and bringing them tightly under the control of the Ministry of Labour .
9 For me , there is an immediacy about them , an intimacy , that can bring me closer to the writer than anything else .
10 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 .
11 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 ?
12 So basically all I would have to do is take them with me and I 'd bring them home on the same day .
13 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 .
14 A Rose Hill bus will bring you almost to the door .
15 This , of course , will not bring us anywhere near the origin of the change .
16 Or if you will , I will come to the abbey gate , and bring you there by the least frequented way . ’
17 things which have brought them here for the afternoon .
18 We stared in stunned shock , realising that the pilot must have made one last superhuman effort not to come down right on our heads , but then just could n't manage those last few yards which would have brought them safely onto the runway .
19 His Canadian passport was beautifully forged and had brought him effortlessly into the Republic of Ireland and thence on the ferry to England .
20 By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine .
21 To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste .
22 had brought us here along the shore ,
23 Essentially this is a matter of love for the total cosmic reality of which we are a part as something whose magnificence transcends our own puny being , and gratitude to it for having brought us forth in the heart of it .
24 The route we had taken through the cordillera from Cajamarca had brought us virtually into the outskirts of Tmjillo and we had put up at a hotel in the centre of the city , all three of us more or less out on our feet .
25 There was a boat at the mill , and the current would help him down-river in the crossing and bring him quickly to the water-meadows by the abbey .
26 For instance , I was able to witness the dogs ' problems first-hand as Melanie muzzled them and brought them together into the living room .
27 On a bitterly cold November day , Richard collected Joan and the small , pale , vulnerable bundle and brought them home to the boat .
28 It was like toys : when you brought them home from the shop and got them out of the box they were never quite the same .
29 He brought me home from the hospital . ’
30 ‘ Adam brought you here in the first place , my lamb . ’
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