Example sentences of "brought [pers pn] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 2 | The field ambulance minibus ran the boys down into town , and brought them back to camp in hourly shuttles until 0300 hours . |
| 3 | The illegal payments scandal brought them down to earth with a bump and down into the 3rd division . |
| 4 | Connors brought me up to date on his opinion of the guys in the car as I rolled the heap round the first intersection . |
| 5 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 6 | ‘ It was because you brought me back to life . |
| 7 | Are you regretting that you ever brought me back to life , Pygmalion ? |
| 8 | The touch of the hard floor brought me back to reality . |
| 9 | Clifford-like with what I was saying , they quickly brought me back to reality . ’ |
| 10 | Instinct alone brought me back to alertness , a warning pulse from the innermost guardian of my being . |
| 11 | Kāli 's voice brought me back to earth . |
| 12 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 13 | She brought him up to date with what had happened . |
| 14 | Walking through the woods at the back of Westfield Manor , Patrick brought him up to date on the burglar who had committed murder to get hold of a packet of letters , and the macabre business of the switched bodies . |
| 15 | That brought him back to life . |
| 16 | The sight of her in the old tatty jumpers she slept in always brought him back to reality . |
| 17 | A sharp knock at the door brought him back to earth . |
| 18 | But what else he could paint , other than trash for the tourists , brought him back to earth . |
| 19 | That usually brought him down to earth . |
| 20 | His leadership is respected by all the rugby nations of the world , but a happy bunch of youngsters from Witham School brought him down to earth as they piled in yesterday at Twickenham . |
| 21 | In a way , she brought him down to earth . |
| 22 | It was the sound of a dull thud from the direction of the bedroom which brought her down to earth with shattering finality , icing her blood , freezing her to the spot . |
| 23 | That brought her back to life . |
| 24 | The intrusion of the world brought her back to reality with a thud . |
| 25 | James to a course book , and was nodding through the unhinged pastures of the higher criticism when Jessica brought her back to reality with the sharp bone of her eager knuckle . |
| 26 | His angry words brought her back to reality , but did nothing to take away her sense of grievance . |
| 27 | Hurrying back to the town , they applied restoratives and brought her back to consciousness . |
| 28 | As well as adding to the old part of the story , the continuators brought it up to date till the death of Geoffrey le Bel , occasionally slipping into detailed narrative of events : there is a long and useful excursus on the politics of 1118 . |
| 29 | ‘ As you can see , I 've simplified it and brought it up to date … |
| 30 | After a while he made tea and brought it back to bed and they talked in a way she never could have with Mike , or anyone she knew , about Garstang 's book on the songs of birds and about Haydn 's Bird Quartet and Wagner 's bird music in Siegfried . |