Example sentences of "[coord] brought [pers pn] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hurrying back to the town , they applied restoratives and brought her back to consciousness . |
| 2 | Things happened as they must have happened , only in fact it was Rufus who had picked her up and brought her back to Wyvis Hall . |
| 3 | She spoke rather absently for she was remembering a vase of stiff-looking artificial flowers of an unknown species , seen fleetingly in a funeral director 's window , which now overlaid her memory of the bright Kensington shops and brought her back to the reality of her life in North London . |
| 4 | Somehow we kept the ship afloat and brought her back to Liverpool on our own , which was a bit hair raising . |
| 5 | Your brother nicked three er bottles of lager and brought them round to my house on Saturday . |
| 6 | Edward picked them up and brought them over to where we were . |
| 7 | He led the People of Israel out of slavery in Egypt , led them through the Red Sea , led them forty years in the wilderness and brought them safely to Palestine , Eretz Yisroel . ’ |
| 8 | They took his men , restored them to health , and brought them safely to Pasaje , where they were nearly taken by the Spanish , but eventually they reached England at the end of 1583 to find that Edward Hayes [ q.v. ] , whose Golden Hind was the only vessel to survive , accused Clerke of having cast away the Delight . |
| 9 | The field ambulance minibus ran the boys down into town , and brought them back to camp in hourly shuttles until 0300 hours . |
| 10 | On a bitterly cold November day , Richard collected Joan and the small , pale , vulnerable bundle and brought them home to the boat . |
| 11 | ‘ He was about 25 miles offshore when he approached the fishing boat and the crew was so alarmed at his ignorance they radioed coastguards and brought him back to Falmouth , ’ Mr Taylor said . |
| 12 | Between them , they trapped Piper 's arms and brought him back to where Ellwood was standing close to a couch . |
| 13 | After a great struggle Blair landed the fish and brought it over to where I was standing , mouth agape . |
| 14 | He filled the cup from Fox 's messkit and brought it over to her . |
| 15 | She got up and picked up the frame and brought it over to Meredith . |
| 16 | Somewhere down there he stubbed himself against an ill-defined but hard mass of fact , and brought it up to the surface to examine it . |
| 17 | ‘ As you can see , I 've simplified it and brought it up to date … |
| 18 | He asked permission to make the tea , which he did — and brought it in to them with the air of an old family retainer . |
| 19 | He collected Circaea alpina in a wood near the Hague and brought it back to England , together with Parietaria officinalis and Centaurea augustifolia . |
| 20 | Owned by Jo Rutherford , Trigo rounded up the milking herd and brought it back to the milking parlour in Devon . |
| 21 | The so-called Columbian school maintain that syphilis was endemic to North America and that members of the crew of Columbus 's first expedition acquired the infection and brought it back to Barcelona in 1493 . |
| 22 | After a while he made tea and brought it back to bed and they talked in a way she never could have with Mike , or anyone she knew , about Garstang 's book on the songs of birds and about Haydn 's Bird Quartet and Wagner 's bird music in Siegfried . |
| 23 | She made the coffee and brought it back to bed — a compromise . |
| 24 | During the Russian Revolution Alfred loaded the clock on to a cart and brought it back to England . |
| 25 | Very taken with the boat , and with the help of the Northern Ireland Tourist Board , Mr Nelson bought the ton vessel and brought it back to Donaghadee . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've brought fresh ch'a , ’ she said simply , then lifted the tray and brought it across to them . |
| 27 | He said something to the men , walked over to the bar , collected a steaming mug and brought it across to her . |
| 28 | He went into the kitchen , made the hot chocolate and brought it out to her . |
| 29 | I can take comfort in this , knowing that my Lord has entered into our humanity and brought it home to God . |
| 30 | I gave chase , passed him and brought us home to victory . |