Example sentences of "[coord] brought [pron] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hurrying back to the town , they applied restoratives and brought her back to consciousness . |
| 2 | Things happened as they must have happened , only in fact it was Rufus who had picked her up and brought her back to Wyvis Hall . |
| 3 | I jumped into the river , fought against the fast-moving water , and brought her back to land . |
| 4 | She spoke rather absently for she was remembering a vase of stiff-looking artificial flowers of an unknown species , seen fleetingly in a funeral director 's window , which now overlaid her memory of the bright Kensington shops and brought her back to the reality of her life in North London . |
| 5 | I rescued Anna from a crowd at Charwelton and brought her back here to you and your people — remember ? ’ |
| 6 | Somehow we kept the ship afloat and brought her back to Liverpool on our own , which was a bit hair raising . |
| 7 | Lyall , who piloted Town to the Second Division Championship in only his second season , said : ‘ Ipswich came to me out of the blue and brought me back into management . |
| 8 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 9 | The field ambulance minibus ran the boys down into town , and brought them back to camp in hourly shuttles until 0300 hours . |
| 10 | She went up to the loft and brought them back . |
| 11 | He snapped off armfuls of branches and brought them back in piles to Ratagan . |
| 12 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 13 | Philippa went across to a tray of goblets , filled two and brought them back . |
| 14 | The man had chased the dog and brought him back , thinking he belonged to Angela . |
| 15 | ‘ He was about 25 miles offshore when he approached the fishing boat and the crew was so alarmed at his ignorance they radioed coastguards and brought him back to Falmouth , ’ Mr Taylor said . |
| 16 | Between them , they trapped Piper 's arms and brought him back to where Ellwood was standing close to a couch . |
| 17 | The Dodger and Fagin caught him easily , and brought him back . |
| 18 | As Dolly followed Boz down the stairs from the bedroom , she said , ‘ Seb met Constable Aplin in Burford and brought him back here with the doctor last night . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Well we took we took our bearded collie over to America and brought him back with us but he 's thirteen . |
| 21 | He collected Circaea alpina in a wood near the Hague and brought it back to England , together with Parietaria officinalis and Centaurea augustifolia . |
| 22 | Owned by Jo Rutherford , Trigo rounded up the milking herd and brought it back to the milking parlour in Devon . |
| 23 | The so-called Columbian school maintain that syphilis was endemic to North America and that members of the crew of Columbus 's first expedition acquired the infection and brought it back to Barcelona in 1493 . |
| 24 | Time after time , the boy threw the stick and the big yellow dog bounded after it , snatched it up , and brought it back , eager to fetch it again . |
| 25 | In the middle , she went away to make tea , and brought it back with digestive biscuits she had broken into quarters . |
| 26 | Then he nodded at Benny who took the hammer and brought it back over his head , ready to smash it down on to the cartridge at a sign from his brother . |
| 27 | It took the hero a year to find the creature , taking him beyond the boundaries of the world , but he captured it by swimming across a river , and brought it back alive , as was his instruction . |
| 28 | After a while he made tea and brought it back to bed and they talked in a way she never could have with Mike , or anyone she knew , about Garstang 's book on the songs of birds and about Haydn 's Bird Quartet and Wagner 's bird music in Siegfried . |
| 29 | She made the coffee and brought it back to bed — a compromise . |
| 30 | During the Russian Revolution Alfred loaded the clock on to a cart and brought it back to England . |