Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] had brought " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Arsenal began to display some of the tidy , organised football that had brought them four consecutive victories and they were rewarded with a superb equaliser 16 minutes from time when Campbell latched onto Martin Keown 's long pass , ghosted past two defenders and hammered the ball home . |
| 2 | His employer , Oscar Godolphin , was one of the eleven to whom the flame of Roxborough 's intent had been passed , though of all of them surely none was so perfect a hypocrite as Godolphin , who was both a member of a Society committed to the repression of all magical activity , and the employer ( Godolphin would have said owner ) of a creature summoned by magic in the very year of the tragedy that had brought the Society into being . |
| 3 | She had finally walked out on him and it had only been the intervention of Philpott that had brought them back together again . |
| 4 | Adam Smith instanced cock-fighting as a pleasure that had brought ruin , but card games probably accounted for even more insolvency . |
| 5 | It was the kind of story that had brought an endless succession of journalists and film crews to Liverpool throughout the turbulent Militant-in-control years of the 1980s . |
| 6 | Azerbaidjan welcomed the SCSE takeover , which President Ayaz Mutalibov characterized as " the natural consequence of the policies that had brought chaos into the Soviet Union during the past few years " ; tanks were reported in the capital , Baku . |
| 7 | The same flood tide that had brought such a good harvest of tiles heaped a mass of driftwood onto the Reach . |
| 8 | She also told him that it was prayer that had brought him to her . |
| 9 | It was pretty much like the cab of the truck that had brought them from the Store . |
| 10 | The Statute of Treason , passed in 1352 , set out a limited definition of the crime , and implicitly excluded from its scope political offences of the kind that had brought so many families to destruction between 1322 and 1330 . |
| 11 | The dream that had brought the two of them to the other side of the globe was wedging a distance between them . |
| 12 | He had served twenty-four years in the US House of Representatives , including nine as Minority Leader of the Republicans , and it was Ford 's popularity on both sides of the aisle that had brought him to the presidency . |
| 13 | As the man who had emerged to lead France out of the abyss of June 1940 , he could hardly countenance a return to the errors that had brought about the débcle . |
| 14 | There had been anger as well at the cruel jest of fate that had brought her into love with her own brother . |
| 15 | Would Eve be furious if Mother Francis heard the whole story of the lies , the unhappiness and the circumstances that had brought her to the other side of the city and now into a hospital bed ? |
| 16 | She was born in the reign of Queen Victoria , suffered malnutrition as a child and had brought up her own children in poverty . |
| 17 | It was her deep sorrow and unhappiness at the tragic accident that had brought them to the United States , together with all the fraught , highly charged tension of having to be in Ross 's company for any length of time , which had taken its toll of her already precariously weak reserves of strength . |
| 18 | Why , on cold winter nights like this , they might even briefly rue the desire that had brought a howling babe between themselves and sleep . |
| 19 | It must really be business that had brought Bunny here as it was n't his sort of pub . |
| 20 | The dream ended with the thought that if I had known this was the main road I need not have resorted to the acrobatics that had brought me there . |
| 21 | There was the commander of the Cigognes , Captain Brocard , wounded during the first days of the fighting at Verdun , and relieved of his command the following year — because he simply could not adapt to the new conditions of air warfare the old form of single combat that had brought the Cigognes such renown in the early days . |
| 22 | Now that he was in charge and had brought her home ? |
| 23 | Dan Sandford had met us at the railway station in Addis Ababa and had brought with him Omar , our prospective headman , to clear our baggage through customs and deal with the other formalities . |
| 24 | They had co-operated on several criminal cases ; the scoops that had brought her the professional acclaim she revelled in . |
| 25 | Their shapes gave off no tremor or threat , more a priestly absorption in the radar of the appetites that had brought them there . |
| 26 | The following unusual use of to provides further confirmation of this : ( 25 ) She waited , Kate Croy , for her father to come in , but he kept her unconscionably , and there were moments at which she showed herself , in the glass over the mantel , a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him . |
| 27 | It was pure chance that had brought Jean-Claude to the attic window that same afternoon . |
| 28 | With the white pieces Yusupov copied an opening that had brought Karpov success in an international tournament game last year . |
| 29 | ( Mick wrote to his parents every day and had brought insufficient airmail envelopes . |
| 30 | She could not really let herself understand what he was saying , but she knew she had to speak out , to let him know it was not just the thought of her father that had brought her here . |