Example sentences of "brought him [adv] to [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 | That brought him back to life . |
| 5 | The sight of her in the old tatty jumpers she slept in always brought him back to reality . |
| 6 | A sharp knock at the door brought him back to earth . |
| 7 | But what else he could paint , other than trash for the tourists , brought him back to earth . |
| 8 | That usually brought him down to earth . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In a way , she brought him down to earth . |