Example sentences of "bring [noun prp] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pledging that he will attempt to fight off all rivals with that incredible pay package , Cuervas said : ‘ We would be very interested in bringing Keane to the club . |
| 2 | We must bring Colin to the garden as soon as we can . ’ |
| 3 | I can bring Tammuz to the comm unit if you like . |
| 4 | This will bring Koi to the surface , enabling you to give them a visual health check ( but not of the underside where ulcers may occur ) . |
| 5 | It is highly unlikely that he envisaged anything more than joint diplomatic pressure on Russia which would bring Nicholas to the conference table to discuss the problems at issue , which explains why he used as a pretext the totally ridiculous question of the keys to the Holy places in Jerusalem , whose custody was disputed between the Latin Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches . |
| 6 | In this decade of evangelisation it is important for the Church to ‘ teach publicly on moral issues and for its lay members to become more involved in the social and political life of the country … that all members of the Church should take part in the Church 's mission of bringing Christ to the world . ’ |
| 7 | A £215m fraud has since been discovered at ISC which has brought Ferranti to the brink of collapse and is likely to cost the group its independence . |
| 8 | Having brought Othello to the point where he proclaims ‘ I 'll see before I doubt ’ , and when he knows , ‘ Away at once with love or jealousy ! ’ ( 191ff . ) , |
| 9 | She had smiled on the new young courtier , and she had helped him , and he had been fascinated by her , for although she was ageing , there were still easily discernible traces of the famous beauty who had led armies into battle and lovers into bed ; who had brought Ireland to the brink of something so truly great that its fame would echo down the centuries . |
| 10 | Law had indeed brought Asquith to the point of conceding all that could be hoped for from Ulster 's resistance , but he was unable to seize the fruits . |
| 11 | The technology has brought Britain to the forefront of speech recognition in nine months — thanks to a team of three researchers , Dr Roger Moore , of the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment , says . |
| 12 | It was pure chance that had brought Jean-Claude to the attic window that same afternoon . |
| 13 | The Welsh connection may have brought Morgan to the duke 's notice during his control of the Herbert lands , but it was Morgan 's legal expertise rather than any regional pull which Gloucester valued . |
| 14 | The Welsh connection may have brought Morgan to the duke 's notice during his control of the Herbert lands , but it was Morgan 's legal expertise rather than any regional pull which Gloucester valued . |
| 15 | Which brought Trent to the American who had called himself Steve in Cancun and Robert in Frankfurt . |
| 16 | Yet it was the poem that brought Wordsworth to the notice of clerics in need of sermon material ( his poems were used for this purpose throughout the last century , and I have heard them used in this ) . |
| 17 | Dolly , Tom and Carrie had all gone to bed , but Seb 's knocking brought Tom to the bedroom window complaining about being disturbed at such a late hour . |
| 18 | Publication of the Essay brought Hodgskin to the attention of the London radicals , notably Francis Place [ q.v. ] , who was to offer Hodgskin intellectual companionship and patronage . |
| 19 | This account of the treaty may , as Florence claims , have been a lie , but it , or something like it , could well have been what Cnut preferred people to believe , for he may have been aware that it had not been unusual within the West Saxon dynasty for brother to follow brother : it was the succession of King Æthelwulf 's sons in turn which brought Alfred to the throne in 871 , despite the fact that his brother Æthelred I had male issue . |
| 20 | His father was sent to guard a wreck at Durness , Sutherland ; the young Peach discovered fossils nearby , whose importance brought Murchison to the scene . |
| 21 | Russian support for Austria in the Seven Years War ( 1756–63 ) brought Prussia to the brink of ruin : Frederick the Great was saved only by the death of Elizabeth ( 1741–61 ) . |
| 22 | The noise brought Jacqui to the door and light spilled out over the scene . |
| 23 | When Roderigo , ‘ this poor trash of Venice ’ , leaves , Iago tells us that his plan is still vague , but that he intends to bring Othello to the point where surface and reality are so inverted that he will ‘ thank ’ Iago for making him an ass , In the event , Iago succeeds in making Cassio drunk , proceeds to ‘ put ’ him into an ‘ action ’ that — just like the tribunes ' manipulation — degrades him yet ‘ approves my dream ’ ( II.iii.58ff. ) — his fantasy or plan of success . |
| 24 | The reported death of Polonius causes Dycarbas 's final collapse , and brings Terentia to the verge of suicide . |
| 25 | At one stage , Iraq was seen by foreign observers as seeking to bring Iran to the negotiating table by force . |