Example sentences of "to bring [pers pn] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We aim to bring them up to date . ’ |
| 2 | He was interested in the concept of the plays and thought he would like to bring them up to date , use original scripts and perform them on the move . |
| 3 | These were broadly based on the recommendations of the 1976 Stevens Committee Report on Planning Control over Mineral Workings , which proposed that mineral permissions should be reviewed periodically and modified , where necessary , to bring them up to date . |
| 4 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 5 | DNA from the blood of dinosaurs is supposedly used to bring them back to life . |
| 6 | But there are a lot of Street addicts around who are happy to bring me up to date with the story when I get back . |
| 7 | Care to bring me up to date , anyone ? ’ |
| 8 | Trust Mrs Bradshaw to bring me back to reality . |
| 9 | ‘ Told me to bring you up to date with the news . ’ |
| 10 | with her determination , we feel sure this hope will be realised but , meanwhile , here are some highlights from her summer newsletter to bring you up to date with this amazing story . |
| 11 | To bring you up to date . |
| 12 | You may be able to arrange day or shorter release periods for any study days or short courses relevant to your practice which would also help to bring you up to date . |
| 13 | ‘ I want to bring you up to date on this , Miss Hinkle . ’ |
| 14 | In order to bring you up to date the items were prepared at very short notice . |
| 15 | The other thing perhaps I could just say , chairman , is that I did meet a representative of the district auditor last week to bring you up to date on the work which the education committee was doing . |
| 16 | Is this a good idea , to have this kind of er , presentation to bring you up to date . |
| 17 | And before you , you have that update what I am trying to do is to list all of the recommendations we obtained in respect of the report and they are actually three - one , to three - twenty and then we put paragraph two on each of those recommendations to bring you up to date on what the service is doing . |
| 18 | Shake out your limbs , stamp your feet ( to bring you back to terra-firma ) , have a good stretch . |
| 19 | We had a row , but telling the police we had a row is n't going to bring her back to life and it is n't going to find out who killed her , because I did n't . ’ |
| 20 | It was also good to have our ‘ old ’ general manager with us for the day giving everyone the chance to bring him up to date with their news . |
| 21 | The Council 's first President had taken the position extremely seriously , and in addition to his ceremonial duties had invited the Chairman and Chief Officer at regular intervals , often twice a year , to meet with him , to discuss matters of interest to him , and to bring him up to date on the Council 's activities . |
| 22 | D'Arcy hated to bring him down to earth , but it had to be done . |
| 23 | He needed these realities , deliberately emphasized , to bring him back to sanity . |
| 24 | He needs something to bring him back to life something to live for . |
| 25 | Kenna — full of hope — tried to bring him back to life by applying the magic wild herb known as moly , but the moment the juice touched the body it was turned into a snowdrop . ’ |
| 26 | He took an armchair near a monstrously large television screen ( the sound had been turned right down ) and silently challenged Malone , the conference , and indeed the Party , to bring him back to life . |
| 27 | Considerable renovation is required to bring it up to standard . |
| 28 | litre turbo diesel , which gains refinements like electric windows to bring it up to CD level , mirroring a demand for refinement from diesel buyers these days . |
| 29 | And presumably if you wanted to revise a book at all , and you had the book on your floppy disk or in your computer in some for , you could again use your word processor to bring it up to date in a revised version . |
| 30 | And presumably if you wanted to revise a book at all and you had the book on your floppy disk or in your computer in some form , you could again use your word processor to bring it up to date in a revised version ? |