Example sentences of "brought up the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Sara returned they drank the ale and she brought up the subject of an increased allowance for her and the children . |
| 2 | One evening at Pack Meeting about two weeks before Christmas , Christine brought up the subject of Miss Miggs during Pow-wow . |
| 3 | Finally , when Schisgal had returned to his interrupted slumbers , Mortimer and Yates brought up the subject of the purpose of their visit . |
| 4 | Later that evening when they were seated comfortably in the bar Mary brought up the subject of the eerie feeling in the cutting ; they agreed it had been a most disturbing experience and that there must be some explanation . |
| 5 | In an address to a potentially hostile assembly of Protestant ministers , he brought up the subject of his religion and emphasized his belief in a strict separation of the affairs of state and those of the church . |
| 6 | It was Damian , the Dysons ' younger son , who first brought up the subject of marriage . |
| 7 | She brought up the subject of an inquest on a man who had hanged himself . |
| 8 | She brought up the subject of an inquest on a man who had hanged himself . |
| 9 | I brought up the question of bans and proscriptions and Sinclair finally stated that no red flags or ‘ unauthorised ’ slogans will be permitted . |
| 10 | While she had Stephen to herself , Tamar brought up the question of the name . |
| 11 | In an interview with the Chinese-language newspaper Wen Wei Po in Hong Kong on 21 April 1991 , Gyaltsen Norbu , chairman of the government of the autonomous region of Tibet , brought up the case of Lobsang Tenzin : |
| 12 | In a misguided attempt to impress the veteran American producer , I brought up the name of Jaume Sisa : a songwriter I once met by chance in a bar in Barcelona , and a man whose work is considered obscure even in Catalonia . |
| 13 | When she returned with the money he brought up the matter of the dog's-tooth suit . |
| 14 | She brought up the hem of her cloak to cover her nose . |