Example sentences of "was bring [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was the music that was bringing in the advertising , and maybe the extra readers . |
| 2 | One is that the not guilty verdict was brought on the understanding that she sought medical help in a psychiatric hospital , and that poor Jane finished her days in Broadmoor . |
| 3 | There was extensive trading in coal , which was brought up the river from Yarmouth , and the rich tracts of land surrounding the town produced a considerable quantity of corn , particularly barley . |
| 4 | The case was brought in the name of Professor Harry Keen , director of clincial services ( medicine ) at Guy 's hospital , London . |
| 5 | You 're not , you 've not got your councillors coming forward and er you know that , which , which I would like because the , the only way you 'll get your , get anything is by sort of working for it and erm we are very proud you know , I do n't know whether you 've , you must 've seen the book you know erm the , the was brought out the centenary , the eighty-three and er , I mean er , er there 's an awful lot of information there . |
| 6 | The site was sold to Vickers for £300,000 in 1946 and thus was brought about the end of a motor racing legend . |
| 7 | When he later produced a series of outstanding tragic works , what he managed to do , in effect , was to bring about the transition from crude medieval drama towards the more sustained literary achievement of the Renaissance . |
| 8 | As I read the previous documents , the strategy was to bring down the rate of development in North Yorkshire and that has happened . |
| 9 | ‘ I sat in on the Jockey Club working party that drew up these latest proposals Their idea was to bring down the number of strokes and they did not seem very interested in what we , the jockeys , had to say . |