Example sentences of "to bring home the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I packed up three months ' baggage and bought yet another case to bring home the excesses of my shopaholism , wrote down the addresses of many new friends and drove to New York to meet a really old one . |
| 2 | In CITY OF JOY ( Cert 12 ; General ) , director Roland Joffe tries to bring home the pride and dignity of people existing in the meanest of mean streets . |
| 3 | Centrepiece of the Welsh Plant Breeding Station 's exhibit was an ingenious model to bring home the pollution timebomb ticking away in silage storage areas . |
| 4 | Everyone knows the Triangular Trade is guaranteed to bring home the gold . |
| 5 | Lowe was in Auckland promoting a video of his life and times — inevitably referring to him as a ‘ master coach ’ which is now becoming one of the more boring sporting clichés — and was asked what he thought of the All Blacks ' failure to bring home the Cup . |
| 6 | This year 's Christian Aid slogan , the quirky ‘ Soak the Poor ’ , intended to bring home the point that drought is a prime cause of privation in underdeveloped countries . |
| 7 | To bring home the bacon for the larder . |
| 8 | That was the motivation to bring home the bacon , even if it was only Spam . ’ |
| 9 | Local boys Hong Kong made good their pledge to bring home the bacon for retiring coach Jim Rowark . |
| 10 | You do n't have to be high tech , even in a high tech industry , to bring home the bacon , and Lion Cabinets Ltd of Leeds repeated its 1991 success with yet another award for the export of its mild steel enclosures and mountings for computer peripherals to the US , Germany , Italy and Israel . |
| 11 | FC Copenhagen will have identical twins hoping to bring home the bacon when the Danes come to town for Thursday 's European Cup encounter . |
| 12 | The way to make NoS popular was to put lots of people in it They could be used to bring home the sort of things which should be exposed and campaigned about in the paper — like housing conditions , or unemployment . |