Example sentences of "brought him [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She brought him up to date with what had happened . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That brought him back to life . |
| 6 | The sight of her in the old tatty jumpers she slept in always brought him back to reality . |
| 7 | A sharp knock at the door brought him back to earth . |
| 8 | But what else he could paint , other than trash for the tourists , brought him back to earth . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Artemis sat him well , and quickly brought him back under control . |
| 11 | Peron needed the union movement for support and , indeed , it was the labour movement who brought him back from exile and won him the presidency . |
| 12 | ‘ Unless you 'd rather I brought him in as chaperon ? |
| 13 | They brought him in after dark to their hearths , and answered his questions as well as they could ; and soon they spoke of Master Harry Talvace , drawing up the image of him slowly out of the well of memory . |
| 14 | That usually brought him down to earth . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In a way , she brought him down to earth . |
| 17 | And that thought brought him sharply into collision with the one marriage that stuck most obstinately in his throat . |
| 18 | Andrew 's parents Charles and Denise , from Barnton , Northwich , who brought him home from hospital last week , were alarmed to be called back so soon . |