Example sentences of "bring [pers pn] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally what we do for the engineers that come in [ is ] , we put them up with a senior guy , to go on the system , and bring them up that way … . |
| 2 | please look after them and bring them back each day , you 'll find a bandage and a roll of bandage in there and so their your own properties |
| 3 | Cara had made it sound so easy when she 'd said ‘ All I 'm asking is that you bring me back relevant facts and answers ’ . |
| 4 | Bring me back some prawn balls . |
| 5 | Why do n't you bring me down some day and somebody steal it |
| 6 | we 'll bring them out this Sunday and take him in next Saturday |
| 7 | " And say your prayers regular , Tristram , that the good Lord may bring you back safe to us , " she added before turning quickly away to leave him face to face with Jennifer . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'll bring you back any treasure we find , dear : If you wait . ’ |
| 9 | I 'll bring you down some fresh . ’ |
| 10 | You can bring it back next time you come . |
| 11 | On Sunday mornings Auntie would bring it back clean , cook lunch — which always included the one vegetable I can stomach , ie beans-in-a-tin because they 're not disgusting green — and afterwards she and I would play the test match while Pa worked on his sermon . |
| 12 | I 've marvelled at her cos as a youngster I never thought she was capable of doing what she 's done , and she 's brought them up fine and fair . |
| 13 | I went out full , but the Lord has brought me back empty . |
| 14 | Meredith had brought her back some embroidered handkerchiefs , as it happened . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's not true , I 've brought him up Irish . ’ |
| 16 | And even if it meant bringing her back empty , he was still bringing her back . |
| 17 | On one occasion during field-work a father who needed to be present while his young son was being questioned at the station instructed his child to ‘ Tell these f'ing black bastards nothin' ’ , and when told that that was a lovely way to bring up his son replied , ‘ Aye , and I 'll keep bringing him up that way ’ ( FN 11/7/87 , p. 9 ) . |
| 18 | But it meant that Swindon had more room to manoevre and Maskells determination in front of goal brought them back level . |
| 19 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 20 | These invitations made Henrietta feel that she would do anything , even return to the well , to avoid the company of the two youths one of whom bore across his chest the legend MY MOTHER WENT TO ISRAEL AND ONLY BROUGHT ME BACK THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT . |
| 21 | However , a six at the 14th brought him back level with Woosnam . |
| 22 | His words brought her up short . |
| 23 | well they must of had a profe really good whistling must n't they but why they brought her on last night I think she was hopeless |
| 24 | When he brought her back another drink he moved close to her trying to have a conversation . |
| 25 | They brought her out thirty hours later , though she had no idea how much time had passed . |
| 26 | Did I , but you you you brought it up last meeting , that that that erm people were going as supposed to be coming back with good ideas as to how to cope with interviews in other rooms , but we said in last time that we were going to have a personal round bill . |
| 27 | It took the hero a year to find the creature , taking him beyond the boundaries of the world , but he captured it by swimming across a river , and brought it back alive , as was his instruction . |
| 28 | It stayed poised there for a moment and another question , another proclamation of innocence , then he brought it down ready to drive into the small man 's stomach again . |
| 29 | If we shoot a rocket to the moon and bring it back ten days later we can calculate before the start , within a matter of seconds and a few hundred yards , just how long it will take and where it will land , provided always that in the course of the proceedings there is no human error . |
| 30 | But I rely on stocking up whenever I visit the States — I take an empty suitcase and bring it back full ’ |