Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] brought " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this indeterminacy should not , and ultimately can not , be hidden or brought together under a single overarching account . |
| 2 | It was in the nature of a goodwill invitation , nothing more , none of us realising that he was the one man in Punta Arenas who had some idea of why an old wooden-walled East Indiaman , built like a frigate , should have been reconditioned and brought south by the Argentine Navy during the war . |
| 3 | It kept him occupied and brought a bit of money in , but not much , because fairs were going through a lean patch , too . |
| 4 | ‘ I want Surere caught and brought here ; and I want him tried and executed , and I want this before the next public rest day , ’ he repeated . |
| 5 | Women left behind by the emigrants , ‘ widows ’ who had not heard from their husbands for decades , daughters growing up without fathers , without grandfathers , without brothers -once they too were old enough to leave — were hungry for men , everyone knew that , and the law made its profits from the devils — Greed and Lust and Envy — that scampered among humans playing a deadly tag in which all the players are caught and brought down , one by one . |
| 6 | He and them , inside and outside : only in art was this dichotomy ever really clarified and brought to rest . |
| 7 | I was most willingly rescued and brought down manually the four flights of stairs . |
| 8 | Lineker showed him how it is done , playing deep and feeding Samways and Allen with slick passes that brought two excellent saves from Nixon , a disallowed goal by Samways , and a reaction from the Tranmere defence which was somewhat reminiscent of a metal crusher in a scrapyard . |
| 9 | Myles stooped and brought his face close to Father Poole 's . |
| 10 | On the other hand , pieces of DNA are continually being separated and brought together in new combinations . |
| 11 | I did n't quite belong in the Jewish dorf-just as well , because horsemen came through more than once and left blood and burnt timbers behind them — and did n't quite belong in the hamlet where my father 's people lived — maybe just as well also , because the crucifixes on their walls did n't save them when the cholera came and brought its own kind of pogrom . |
| 12 | LETTERS then is a ‘ 2nd cycle ’ isomorphic with the ‘ lst ’ ’ , a recycling of Barth 's earlier characters whose destinies are expanded and brought to bear on the America of the late 1960s ( Barth 1980a : 656 ) . |
| 13 | The earlier classics — Annie Hall , Manhattan , Love and Death , Sleeper et al — are all available from Warner at around £11 , and each should be collected and brought out again and again like a favourite sweater . |
| 14 | Aung San overcame his plea that he just wanted to go on writing and brought him to Rangoon . |
| 15 | ‘ You have been kidnapped and brought here to my house . |
| 16 | And then once I suppose he would n't make it in the house would he he would have it made and brought to the house . |
| 17 | I knew in one case that every Saturday morning I would get a letter from a lad who was having a very trying time at an operational training unit , and he begged me week after week , I eventually relented and brought him back ; he nearly went through and completed a second Pathfinder tour . |
| 18 | She bade them sit and brought a tray of wine , cups , and a bowl of sugared wafers . |
| 19 | But she survived and she lived and brought her children and they left to be in England again . |
| 20 | He made the seasons change and brought facsimiles of his own world 's people into this one . |
| 21 | I frowned and brought my head up , suddenly thinking that it might just be stuffed ; perhaps somebody was having a laugh at my expense . |
| 22 | Then , with a final look at Sung , Peskova turned and brought the rock down on the woman 's upper arm . |
| 23 | Since each difference in form must signal a difference in meaning , children must make certain choices among forms when they find themselves faced with two different forms with apparently the same meaning — e.g. , bringed and brought , or cooker and cook . |
| 24 | But the next evening , Christie 's better quality sale was 78% sold and brought $70.6 million ( £47 million ) , far above its projected low estimate . |
| 25 | As they were more frequently summoned , so numbers of them came to be more frequently re-elected and brought increasing continuity from one assembly to the next . |
| 26 | risking their lives and coming back with the whole lot that he collected and brought back again . |
| 27 | Being born and brought up next to a butcher 's shop in a Somerset town in the closing years of the 18th century may not have been the healthiest start in life for a child , but those who saw out the dangerous first two or three years seemed to have stood a good chance of survival thereafter . |
| 28 | The challenge for adults arriving in this country and establishing a new life and family is different from that of the children born and brought up here . |
| 29 | As fast as her rheumatic legs would carry her , she toddled round to the Rope Walk , to the house where Eb and Josh and Ruth had been born and brought up . |
| 30 | They are frequently denied the choice of living in the village in which they were born and brought up or in the village close to their employment . |