Example sentences of "bringing [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shaft of the arrow protruding from my back occasionally knocked against something , bringing me to a gasping halt . |
| 2 | My time at the Housing Corporation was eventful in bringing me for the first , but no means last , time into contact with Mrs Thatcher when , on the fall of the Heath government , she became the shadow Minister of the Environment , in succession to the job she had had as Minister of Education . |
| 3 | Crosland had realized ‘ the impossibility , as he saw it , of a Labour Secretary of State taking institutions from urban local education authorities which were predominantly controlled by Labour , and bringing them under the same regime as the universities ’ . |
| 4 | Once out of the village they picked up speed and took a road that would zigzag through five hamlets before bringing them to the only cart track that wound up the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 5 | After 1870 education for the Poles was seen as a way of bringing them within the German order , of lightening their Slav darkness by opening up to them the world of ‘ civilisation ’ . |
| 6 | They made another turn , and another , bringing them in a short time to Southwark Bridge . |
| 7 | She was not watching the uneven cobbled ground beneath her racing feet , and an unexpectedly large stone tripped her progress , bringing her to a stumbling halt . |
| 8 | But in the same split second something like an iron band clamped round his waist , squeezing the breath from him and bringing him to a dead stop . |
| 9 | Diana has helped Charles by bringing him into the modern era , teasing him and leavening his spirits , and keeping him young and abreast of young people 's thinking . |
| 10 | A security cordon was thrown round Oxford City Centre bringing it to a virtual halt as police evacuated thousands of shopperss , workers from offices and college students . |
| 11 | Bringing it into the open condones it |