Example sentences of "[noun sg] brought [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The end of the passage brought her to the head of the kitchen stairs the head of a mine-shaft . |
| 2 | This interchange brought us to the foot of the bad step beneath Crib Goch summit . |
| 3 | His report on the German military brought him to the attention of General George Marshal , on whose staff he later served . |
| 4 | Reduced to serving as a mere garden hut , a lucky chance brought it to the notice of a vigilant W & L member fresh from success in W & L 's competition to design a ( new ) building for Raven Square . |
| 5 | Ten minutes of easy walking brought her to the cul-de-sac where Delia Forbes lived . |
| 6 | But he proved right about the size of Switham Thicket , for a bare quarter of a mile brought them to the outskirts of the other side , and almost immediately the horse was turned into a walled aperture of crumbling stone , its high , rusty iron gates wide open . |
| 7 | Two hours ' climbing brought us to the narrow ledge from which one entered Antony 's cave through a cleft in the cliff-face . |
| 8 | The sudden movement brought him into the path of a mourner , whose elbow struck him a glancing blow and sent him reeling . |
| 9 | The gate porter brought me to the main entrance , and I was shown into a small pleasant office in the front of the administrative block . |
| 10 | In the winter of 1926–7 a power struggle brought it to the attention of the police . |
| 11 | The road brought them to the centre of the two rows of thatched cottages . |
| 12 | At the end of the path another kissing gate brought you to the rough farm lane running past Milford House , owned by the Ware family , the Salisbury leather magnates . |
| 13 | In those days he came in with a His coachman brought him in the trap and they got the twenty minutes past seven express train to Glasgow . |
| 14 | Agnew made his mark in midfield at Barnsley where his ability to produce a telling pass brought him to the notice of Blackburn , who shelled out 750,000 for the Shipley-born player . |
| 15 | Isambard 's hand on his shoulder brought him to the bench at the end of the room , where a film of stone-dust coated the floor , and several fragments of carvings and half-cut blocks of stone lay pushed together against the wall , as though discarded long ago . |
| 16 | By 1905 he had moved to St Petersburg where his growing reputation as a miraculous healer brought him to the attention of the Czar and Czarina . |
| 17 | ‘ The Faskally boatman brought me across the foot of the loch and I came straight over the hill to the Brig of Grandtully . ’ |
| 18 | Vuk Karadžić 's systematic compilations in the early nineteenth century brought them into the mainstream of European culture . |
| 19 | Yeah received it last week Chief brought it to the meeting on Tuesday evening last week but the quickest like most national organisations somebody was sick right E B P week is the twenty first March |
| 20 | They got the ballast out and loaded it into skips and the loco brought it along the line to the plant . |