Example sentences of "the [noun pl] bring [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Until we get promotion , we wo n't get the crowds to bring in the money to get the top players . |
| 2 | Efforts are initially made to persuade the parents to bring up the child at home , but where this does not prove successful or is not considered a wise step , some form of full-time residential care is required . |
| 3 | Dr. Mawhinney has become accustomed over the years to bring in the middle of political contention and has taken very good care to cultivate his patch . |
| 4 | The droughts make the chiggers unbearable and the floods bring out the rattlesnakes and copperheads … ’ |
| 5 | The county court has a wide jurisdiction , but most of the actions brought in the county court are claims based upon contract and tort. 2,615,508 plaints were entered in 1989. 2,358,583 ( 90 per cent. ) of these were ‘ money ’ plaints . |
| 6 | They went into the school as the girls brought out the ponies , a docile , shiny lot compared with the animals at home , Hoomey decided . |
| 7 | The girls bringing in the parcel could dress up like the bridegroom-to-be , taking his work or hobby as the theme , or like any male characters such as footballers , policemen or policewomen wearing sunglasses , gorillas with cigars , city gents in bowler hats , or a spoof pop group of boys in short trousers and caps singing , ‘ Will you still need me when I 'm sixty-four ? ’ . |
| 8 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |
| 9 | As he reviews the sad procession of his supporters leaving the city , he finds at the rear two priests and the Levites bringing out the ark . |
| 10 | Other schools ask the children to bring in the name of a senior citizen that they know who would appreciate a gift , by acts such as these the school 's status is again increased in the locality . |
| 11 | Many of our people are out in the hills bringing in the flocks , as are the Hearthwares — those we have left . |
| 12 | Burrows shows how Jane Austen makes skilful use of the common words to build up different idiolects for the different persons in the novels to bring out the differences in their characters . |
| 13 | He and Kelly had only been together five minutes but the photographs brought back the full nightmarish shame of it all . |
| 14 | Mr Sillars accused the leadership of unravelling ten years of work by party activists — a reference to the SNP decision to vote with the Tories to bring down the Labour government in 1979 which led to the taunt ‘ Tartan Tories ’ . |