Example sentences of "[verb] to bring [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth was tempted to tell her that at the time she had not had the vicar in mind , but since Mrs Peterson had not come to bring her any comfort , she simply turned her face to the wall . |
| 2 | We have come to bring you food . |
| 3 | She wants to bring her along to be mated with Cedric . " |
| 4 | She says she ‘ wants to bring it centre-stage ’ . |
| 5 | She wants to bring it home . |
| 6 | He has to bring her back for school on Monday . |
| 7 | he has to bring it twice as much |
| 8 | A check was done on the pH and a proprietary acid buffer was added to bring it down to 6.5 Softening resin was added in a box filter to bring down the hardness to 8°DGH . |
| 9 | The Commission will often suggest how an agreement can be modified to bring it within the competition rules . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps Roman is just what Dana needs to bring them out , ’ Claudia said . |
| 11 | I would save some money and then I would find a man to marry me , especially if I promised to bring him to London . |
| 12 | He promised to bring me a few notes from which I could prepare a draft but he never did . ’ |
| 13 | He promised to bring her back some Edinburgh rock — ‘ sweets to the sweet ’ . |
| 14 | You could n't be alone with your tragedy , you were expected to bring it into the living-room with you , as the others brought their newspapers , knitting , homework . |
| 15 | With agitated fingers , his father felt in his shirt pocket for a cigarette , but he had forgotten to bring them from the kitchen . |
| 16 | First they had to lend some maroon LX Club shirts to a Northampton side who had forgotten to bring theirs along , and then the students gave a lesson in speed about the field , quick thinking and teamwork . |
| 17 | I 've made a new term planner actually but I 've forgotten to bring it . |
| 18 | Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ? |
| 19 | When he leaned over her , tried to bring her face back , she tucked her lips inside her mouth and would n't speak . |
| 20 | We treated her well , tried to bring her up decently . |
| 21 | When moderate areas , principally Nottinghamshire , failed to comply , Yorkshire miners tried to bring them into line by picketing their pits . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | A spearman tried to bring him down with a lance thrust under the cuirass whilst another took a swing with a sword at the joints in the greaves on his legs . |
| 24 | Kenan 's just been granted a 6-month visa , 4 months after the Nix 's first tried to bring him out of Bosnia . |
| 25 | Kenan 's just been granted a 6-month visa , 4 months after the Nix 's first tried to bring him out of Bosnia . |
| 26 | We 've been criticised for bringing him in so late but we tried to bring him in earlier . |
| 27 | The final straw , according to inside sources , was when Mr Zhivkov tried to bring his widely disliked son , Vladimir , who has a reputation as a drunkard and a womaniser , on to the politburo . |
| 28 | Newman had kept the conversation general , fending Evelyn off when she tried to bring it on a more personal basis . |
| 29 | They were successful in taking it as far as the stairs , but when they tried to bring it down it slipped , nearly killing one of them . |
| 30 | Koresh zeroed in on this and tried to bring it closer to where we are to make it more real so it was uppermost in the minds of all his followers . |