Example sentences of "brought [pers pn] [adv] into [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If the war brought them more into line with popular feeling , then it was not because they had changed , but because popular opinion ( or at least the Liberal-Labour part of it ) had at last seen the light .
2 Hibs responded to that let-off by grabbing a 66th-minute goal which brought them back into contention .
3 Lyall , who piloted Town to the Second Division Championship in only his second season , said : ‘ Ipswich came to me out of the blue and brought me back into management .
4 Plus it really brought me back into touch with what was going on ; suddenly there was n't a big show happening , there was only me doing my personal little bit . ’
5 His clothes business brought him increasingly into contact with the rock music world , and in 1974 McLaren moved briefly to New York where he managed the prototype glam-trash group , the New York Dolls .
6 He staged a counter-attack which brought him back into power in 1769 , but at the price of a financial disaster from which he never recovered ; money was borrowed to buy shares with which to create votes for the election of directors at a time when the value of the Company 's stock collapsed .
7 And that thought brought him sharply into collision with the one marriage that stuck most obstinately in his throat .
8 It was as if an antiquated lecturer , standing somewhere behind me , had slipped a slide into a magic lantern and brought it sharply into focus .
9 From there they brought us back into back of the citadel .
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