Example sentences of "home to [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those photographs brought home to me the abomination of desolation that is Croatia now . |
| 2 | This touching but morbid In Memoriam served only to bring home to me the realisation of what now seemed inevitable . |
| 3 | Borne on the clean sea breeze this strange alien farmyard smell from bird droppings suddenly brought home to me the density of the bird population on shore which had yet to reveal itself . |
| 4 | Clearly the whereabouts of those bottles , and the number of them , had been one of the P'daytabird 's little secrets , for Warnie writes , ‘ Nothing brought home to me the finality of the old life as did the carrying out of those bottles and putting them into [ the ] car — to see the mysteries of that jealously guarded secret room emerge as plain matter of fact bottles , and the cellar stand revealed as an ordinary empty cupboard was an unpleasant feeling . ’ |
| 5 | The exercise brought home to me the need — and indeed the advantage — of establishing within the college a culture or ethos of total institutional responsibility for the quality of what we devise , offer and deliver . |
| 6 | Through the AC30 I found it possible to find some pretty convincing old Phantom sounds , ramming home to me the fact that if you can put up with the tuning hassles , a 12-string is still one of the best guitars to use for rhythm . |
| 7 | This brought home to me the fact that paying lots of money for an established defender ( central ) is a massive risk . |
| 8 | It did both , but this only drove home to her the grossness and subjectivity of her own temperament . |
| 9 | A fortnight with her parents , he was thinking now , on their many acres of damp earth , must surely bring home to her the advantages of living on Lord Jim . |
| 10 | And it brought home to her the fact that some children can not cope with maths , however hard they try — a realisation she may well be glad of when she fulfils her ambitions to become a fully-fledged teacher . |
| 11 | But Denis knew what he meant , and Boxer 's comment brought home to him the fact that even if he were able to blot out its significance he would n't be allowed . |
| 12 | She wished he could be charged because he thinks it might bring home to him the seriousness of what he has done and scare him enough to stop . |
| 13 | We hope the leaflet we are sending out to our motor policyholders will bring home to them the fact that most cars can be converted both simply and cheaply . ’ |
| 14 | Now that you are completing the preliminary studies and will shortly be embarking on the more complicated part of the syllabus , I feel that , at this stage , it would be of benefit to give you the following lessons in an endeavour to press home to you the importance and value of your continued perseverance . |
| 15 | God has a way on retreats such as this of bringing home to us the challenge of a first-order question : ‘ Do you love me in the way Mary loved me and allowed herself to be used for my mission ? ’ |