Example sentences of "brought [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I says , they have a hotel there , so I brought them up to the hotel and took them , he went in and he made arrangements to stay there and then I took them over and let them see this lake dwell this crannagh as they call it . |
| 2 | They scarcely knew the man — and , no doubt , curiosity was one of the things which brought them out into the streets to see him . |
| 3 | The Mosaic Law underlines the fact that their whole social , religious and daily life must be governed by loyalty to that one God who brought them out of the land of Egypt , out of the house of bondage . |
| 4 | So there was the swings and roundabouts where had they not recognized and had come along with us , to the extent that we thought we could do our , a sharing objective er and it brought them out of the , the attitude that was hitherto adopted where well management really could n't care very much you know , if a man did suffer the loss of er five pound a week or whatever you know , and , and once it was made clear to him that there was no further er er use of the procedure and he could take it through his district you know , if he liked , the man did n't , well on exceptional cases perhaps they may have taken a case through , but er in the majority of cases the man just accepted it , and made up his losses er er later on . |
| 5 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 6 | He turned on the tap and washed them , then brought them back into the room and dried them with the tea-cloth . |
| 7 | Comment from Morton Westlake centred on how jolly good the scones were , how you could get a jolly food tea at the Waldorf in London , and the astronomical prices which some had paid for their seats at the forthcoming Test match at Lord's. it was the Old Stager who brought them back to the match in hand . |
| 8 | They brought them back to the motel . |
| 9 | As Floy and Snodgrass watched in silence , the Elms stretched out their hard , lichen-crusted branches and brought them down on the prisoner 's shoulders and thighs , at the place where the skin had started to tear . |
| 10 | A fourth — a girl — had an epileptic fit as rescuers brought them down from the Lake District peak at Ullswater in Cumbria . |
| 11 | ‘ We put them in , me an ’ my friends , brought them down from the lake . |
| 12 | When , in 1974 an American friend brought me over from the States a copy of Elizabeth Gould-Davis 's The First Sex , I had a scholar 's confirmation of my conclusions . |
| 13 | It brought me up against the fact that I 'd like him to be better off so I could have more options . |
| 14 | Good thing you brought me along with the baggage , you know . |
| 15 | That damn' word brought me back to the harsh reality of my situation : not just the discovery of a traitor or bringing a murderer to book but vengeance for Agnes and , of course , the Herculean task which the Great Killer had assigned me ! |
| 16 | Mother mother b mother brought me back by the the by my by my hair . |
| 17 | There was a way down , on iron rungs , from the Reading Room , and a way out , through a high locked portal , which brought you up into the sunless Egyptian necropolis , amongst blind staring pharaohs , crouching scribes , minor sphinxes and empty mummy-cases . |
| 18 | ‘ The man who brought you in to the Squad must have been Alan Jones . |
| 19 | The Ten Commandments began : ‘ I am the Lord your God , who brought you out of the land of Egypt , out of the house of bondage . |
| 20 | He appeared to Moses as " Yahweh " ( " I am who I am " , Exodus 3:14 ) , and later on as " Yahweh your God , who brought you out of the land of Egypt " ( Exodus 20:2 ) . |
| 21 | Can you remember which part exerted the special emotional pull , the part that brought you back to the story again and again ? |
| 22 | He walked on , climbing the flight of stone steps that brought him up into the Strand itself . |
| 23 | But when they brought him up into the higher reaches of the Warden 's Tower and shut him into his new prison he was stupefied to find it all they had claimed . |
| 24 | She was smiling and what she said almost brought him up from the bed , his fists flailing . |
| 25 | But dear Caroline 's got an almighty hangover , sick as a dog , so I brought him over on the back of the bike to see it again . |
| 26 | The uncharacteristic profanity brought him around in the chair . |
| 27 | The path brought him out into the rest of the grounds . |
| 28 | Sometimes the violent power of the Spirit is seen in almost physical terms , as when the Spirit of the Lord entered into Ezekiel and set him on his feet , or lifted him up , or brought him out into the valley ( Ezek. 2:2 , 3:12 , 37:1 ) . |
| 29 | He brought him out of the bar . |
| 30 | George stared at her and suddenly ached to get away , to take his coat and his briefcase and get into the car and escape to the haven of the Unit and work and the baby and … which brought him back to the reason for his starting to probe her feelings about the project . |