Example sentences of "[vb past] brought him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the doctor seemed to think Sigarup would be all right — although his chances would have been better if they 'd brought him sooner . |
| 2 | ‘ God , ’ her husband said , whenever she 'd brought him home before her father died , ‘ what a bloody awful climate … ’ |
| 3 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 4 | He 'd managed to grab a couple of hours ' sleep in the cell since they 'd brought him in , but it was scarcely enough to refresh him . |
| 5 | Would have been quite something if they 'd brought him back . |
| 6 | She asked her husband what had brought him — Dostoevsky — to this deserted yard . |
| 7 | When I reached Sid , someone had brought him down and extinguished the flames . |
| 8 | This time he stood in the centre of the room , plainly unsure as to what had brought him in , his eye searching around for something to fasten on , like someone in mid-speech forgetting what they had to say . |
| 9 | The innocence of the encounter , and the sharp pitch of emotional stress to which it had brought him , were significant factors in Vincent 's response . |
| 10 | Benn was eager to get the taste of American boxing before he met Watson and the urge to find new experience brought the break , sad but needed , from the trainer who had brought him through from his amateur days , Brian Lynch . |
| 11 | Mr Koc recalled asking Mr Ata Nur Kuntar , one of the Turks who had brought him to Britain , what had happened . |
| 12 | Mr Koc recalled asking Mr Ata Nur Kuntar , one of the Turks who had brought him to Britain , what had happened . |
| 13 | Benn was eager to get the taste of American boxing before he met Watson and the urge to find new experience brought the break , sad but needed , from the trainer who had brought him through from his amateur days , Brian Lynch . |
| 14 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |
| 15 | The death of his beloved grandfather had brought him misery but , at the same time , it had also given him strength . |
| 16 | Suddenly , Nigel felt annoyed by her manner and by the fact that she had brought him nothing . |
| 17 | On Forgive 'N Forget 's most recent outing he had run fourth behind Combs Ditch at Haydock Park , and that horse was also in the Gold Cup field , third favourite after a highly successful season which had brought him three good prizes and a neck defeat by Wayward Lad in the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park . |
| 18 | Mandarin was eleven but showed no signs of losing the powers which had brought him numerous victories , including two in the King George VI Chase . |
| 19 | Some dark impulse , it seems , had brought him without his knowledge to an Edwardian terrace notorious as the haunt of poor immigrants and richer prostitutes . |
| 20 | This time , however , some dark impulse had brought him without his knowledge to an Edwardian terrace notorious as the haunt of prostitutes . |
| 21 | At various points in his career , he played wonderful jazz , but by the time these four pieces — OM , Kulu Se Mama , Selflessness , and Ascension — were made in 1965 his relentless search for The Truth had brought him to the most uncompromising of unstructured freedom . |
| 22 | Her ultimate choice was surprising , for Philippe Le Bas was the son of a man who had sat in the Convention of 1793 and who had never renounced the republican ethos in which his father had brought him up . |
| 23 | He felt that the forces that had brought him to this narrow corner of a Neapolitan street — the wish , on the one hand , to track down Elsie and now the fear , on the other , that this search would lead him to harm — these forces might hold him there , his foot on the edge of the pavement overhanging the choked and filthy gutter , in a kind of uneasy equilibrium and he might stay there for a long , long time . |
| 24 | Several assault and battery charges had brought him trouble with the police . |
| 25 | The Harvard Planning Office had brought him in on a dispute between the track coach and the builders of a new gymnasium , concerning the dimensions of the new indoor track . |
| 26 | It required but a single coincidence , whereby an apparent answer to a prayer arrived at the appropriate time , to make him believe that his objects of supplication had powers beyond himself , and had brought him relief . |
| 27 | Corbett ignored the hidden threat and relaxed in the chair the servant had brought him . |
| 28 | Clothes were all very well , they were her father 's life and she knew that all the privileges she enjoyed were hers because of clothes and the stupendous success they had brought him , but she could n't care about them . |
| 29 | Mostly nowadays Hugo took for granted all the assets that talent had brought him . |
| 30 | Although the very thought of court action had brought him out in a cold sweat , the same grittiness which had enabled his father to jump ship and seek a new life now came to his rescue . |