Example sentences of "brought it to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Marguerite 's tight shoulders relaxed and , as he slowed the car and finally brought it to a halt before the house , Alain made a sound of deep satisfaction . |
| 2 | Before Mikey had swung the bus around and brought it to a stop she had seen their pale faces in the wet night , the two umbrellas . |
| 3 | Three police cars were damaged as they effectively rammed the metro and brought it to a stop . |
| 4 | Nor was the conversation doing anything other than drag down her spirits , so she brought it to a close by saying , ‘ I must go back to the office . |
| 5 | But a debt mountain of £1.4 billion brought it to the brink of collapse late last year . |
| 6 | An agreement signed by the government of President Violeta Chamorro and by the National Workers ' Front ( FNT ) on July 12 ended a 15-day general strike by an estimated 100,000 workers in public , private and agricultural sectors which had paralysed the country and brought it to the brink of civil war . |
| 7 | ‘ I brought it to the Church leaders and was supported by Cardinal O'Fiaich . |
| 8 | She made him a sandwich and brought it to the table . |
| 9 | Without a word he brought it to the table beside her bed and put it carefully down . |
| 10 | Yeah received it last week Chief brought it to the meeting on Tuesday evening last week but the quickest like most national organisations somebody was sick right E B P week is the twenty first March |
| 11 | If it was history in the making , he brought it to the nation . |
| 12 | Over coffee we heard another interesting anecdote about The Kings Head which brought it to the forefront of media attention last year . |
| 13 | Endill ran to the cart as Mr McDoodle brought it to the house . |
| 14 | The tutor found her an old block from a ruined church and brought it to the house . |
| 15 | B. Hunslett claims the Service Crew were the first élitist group to travel the country with the casual look , and that they brought it to the attention of the general public . |
| 16 | I suppose also the that the slang term was confined to the esoteric vocabulary of sailors for a hundred years , until the rise of the boffins in World War II brought it to the attention of the general public . |
| 17 | Lamb claimed he spotted the Pakistani bowlers behaving illegally and brought it to the attention of umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer . |
| 18 | In the winter of 1926–7 a power struggle brought it to the attention of the police . |
| 19 | Rumour had it that it was he who brought it to the attention of Chamberlain , who became President of the Board of Trade at the same time as Plimsoll left the House , that numbers of lives lost at sea , after falling as a result of the Load Line Act , were now again on the increase . |
| 20 | You might guess it was my dad who first pointed out this odd ( and classically Chaotic ) phenomenon and brought it to the attention of us kids . |
| 21 | Reduced to serving as a mere garden hut , a lucky chance brought it to the notice of a vigilant W & L member fresh from success in W & L 's competition to design a ( new ) building for Raven Square . |
| 22 | The first reigned during a period of complex political change , and presided over the difficult transition from the Roman Republic and the civil wars which brought it to an end to the monarchical system which became the Roman empire ; Nero 's reign marks the abandonment of the pattern which had been established by Augustus . |
| 23 | It was a revelation after the pain of trotting and Nails was cross when Nutty brought it to an end . |
| 24 | After a few years , the conclusion was reached that the experiment had not worked as it had been expected to , and cuts in educational spending soon brought it to an end . |
| 25 | In a broadcast he made after the war , he described the journal as one " which had clearly failed of its purpose several years before events brought it to an end " . |
| 26 | In the developed democracy there was pay for attending the Council , but ironically it is not attested before Thucydides ' account of how the oligarchs of 411 ( temporarily ) brought it to an end ( viii.69 ) . |
| 27 | In retirement Leslie launched the Oswestry Festival of Village Choirs , which absorbed him for some years until underfunding brought it to an end . |
| 28 | The plaintiffs sought to enforce the clause but Scott J dismissed the action for he found that on its true construction the employment agreement was a contract of employment of the defendant by the two partners , that the dissolution of that partnership within the term of the employment constituted a breach of the contract of employment and brought it to an end and that accordingly the restraint of trade clause ceased thereafter to be binding upon the defendant . |