Example sentences of "bring [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On her ice cream round she lost her temper , bringing down on the head of the ringleader the entire tray of ice cream . |
| 2 | She was not proud to have been the cause of splitting her family up ; nor could she forget how her father 's love had turned to disgust ; and how could she easily reveal the shame which she had brought down on the Wards ? |
| 3 | Well , United started in fine style as early as the twentieth second ; Martin Foyle was brought down on the edge of the penalty area and Paul Simpson 's free kick was headed away for a corner . |
| 4 | The same year 1960 , saw the Pedler 's retire to live in the flat over the Ladies ' room , although Bill still involved himself helping his replacement — Derek Craik — who came as Assistant shortly before Bill 's retirement ( replacing Keith Mercer , an earlier assistant brought in on the crest of the membership boom ) . |
| 5 | Eventually , he mentioned the present writer and suggested that I should be brought in on the matter as I had already knowledge of one or two other cases . |
| 6 | I had also been brought up on the story of the man who boasted that his ancestor had lost his leg at Waterloo , to which the response was ‘ Which platform ? ’ |
| 7 | His family background was humble but he had been brought up on the writings of Beatrice and Sidney Webb and the philosophies of George Bernard Shaw . |
| 8 | I was a speed-freaking northern oik brought up on the afro-d ultra-hip gibberish of pre-senile Charles Shaar Murray , the manic sulphatic babblings of Tony Parsons and my then hero , Julie Burchill . |
| 9 | C. K. Allen has suggested , for example , that : ‘ It is evidently difficult for a generation brought up on the early editions of Dicey 's Law of the Constitution to relinquish the belief that droit administratif is the sinister embodiment of all the distempers of the commonwealth which the Rule of Law has so proudly repulsed . ’ |
| 10 | Brought up on the dictum that ‘ any foreign material in the body would re-emerge in a sea of pus ’ , his biggest fear was of bacterial infection . |
| 11 | Those who were brought up on the older theories of the Westminster model in which , despite party loyalties , there was a balance between the executive and the legislature as a whole , expect that the House of Commons will still regard its main functions as being to consider and amend legislative proposals from the government ( and from private members ) , to scrutinize public expenditure and to expose government policies to continual questioning and debate . |
| 12 | Well I was brought up on the story . |
| 13 | United fans have been brought up on the sublime skills of attackers like Best , Law , Charlton , Stuart Pearson , Jimmy Greenhoff and Frank Stapleton . |
| 14 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 15 | Being brought up on the fish starved waters of the North West he took no prisoners when he drew on fish on the richer waters in the Midlands . |
| 16 | But such paradoxes were unlikely to convince businessmen brought up on the economic theory of the ‘ wage-fund ’ , which they believed to be a scientific demonstration that raising wages was impossible and trade unions were therefore doomed to failure . |
| 17 | The problems with most people , if I can generalise , is that they have been brought up on the notion that a picture has to represent something and that to them means something recognizable , like a tree , or a landscape , or a windmill , or an oast house . |
| 18 | Town 's drugs are often made in Britain , flown to the Far East or some other convenient staging post and then brought back on the next night — to be sold more cheaply than if they had never left Britain . |
| 19 | I would buy the parchment and arrange its transport down to the wharves and we concluded that , if we sold the wine brought back on the first voyage , we would make a profit . |
| 20 | This means that a large number of gliders will be rigged and brought out on the airfield . |
| 21 | It was A … who arranged the chairs this evening , when she had them brought out on the veranda . |