Example sentences of "bring [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | On her ice cream round she lost her temper , bringing down on the head of the ringleader the entire tray of ice cream . |
| 2 | By 1980 the operation was clearly prospering , bringing in on average £2500 per week in the second half of the year . |
| 3 | She was consumed with gauging his mood , foreseeing every move he made , hag-ridden by the spectres of all the troubles he could bring down on himself and them . |
| 4 | It might bring down on me the wrath of Motherdear . ’ |
| 5 | Users may then bring up on screen all the information recorded about that study . |
| 6 | John Walford 's fate spoke powerfully of life 's arbitrary horror , and of destruction brought down on a good and generous man who had done a terrible thing , but ‘ without fore-intending it ’ . |
| 7 | The ‘ object ’ is a lump of granite , with a plaque above stating that it was brought down on ice from Westmorland during the Ice Age 300,000 years ago . |
| 8 | And at the same time ashamed of the affliction that he had brought down on himself . |
| 9 | He worked on the buses when he arrived , showed me a canopy in front of a hotel that he 'd brought down on his first solo drive . |
| 10 | She was not proud to have been the cause of splitting her family up ; nor could she forget how her father 's love had turned to disgust ; and how could she easily reveal the shame which she had brought down on the Wards ? |
| 11 | In May 1710 Steers was ‘ brought down on purpose ’ to Liverpool to build the town 's first dock . |
| 12 | At least one such , brought down on her ankle , had to suffer the ministrations of the Archdeacon 's cheerful wife , trained , ( who did not know it ? ) as a nurse . |
| 13 | It was the first time in Israel 's 41-year history that a government had been brought down on a vote of confidence . |
| 14 | Well , United started in fine style as early as the twentieth second ; Martin Foyle was brought down on the edge of the penalty area and Paul Simpson 's free kick was headed away for a corner . |
| 15 | However , she is brought in on her own , and the mare is distraught at being separated from her friends . |
| 16 | The same year 1960 , saw the Pedler 's retire to live in the flat over the Ladies ' room , although Bill still involved himself helping his replacement — Derek Craik — who came as Assistant shortly before Bill 's retirement ( replacing Keith Mercer , an earlier assistant brought in on the crest of the membership boom ) . |
| 17 | ‘ As you realize , ’ he said , ‘ we have been thinking that she might have been murdered outside the City boundaries , and brought in on a meat barrow . ’ |
| 18 | My problem is with blanketweed which was brought in on a lily plant . |
| 19 | Eventually , he mentioned the present writer and suggested that I should be brought in on the matter as I had already knowledge of one or two other cases . |
| 20 | MCI Communications Corp said it has gained 10,000 new toll-free telephone numbers since portable numbers were brought in on May 1 , including about 6,500 new numbers acquired from AT&T Co : a total of more than 1m commercial 800 numbers were ‘ officially freed ’ to change . |
| 21 | Tony Pamphlett , brought in on loan from Redbridge Forest , is still unwell , but O'Sullivan has confirmed his intention of signing the experienced defender this Summer . |
| 22 | Stephen said hallo to Dadda before going upstairs to start work on the three-piece suite they had brought in on Friday . |
| 23 | As I 've said to you the the old bastinal used to hang on the toilet wall outside was a whole row of them you know these these big galvanized bath things that were brought in on maybe on a Friday night . |
| 24 | Pomegranate syrup prepared with a mixture of sorrel was served as a drink and betel nuts were brought in on gold and silver dishes after the meal . |
| 25 | Troops were brought in on March 24 to quell the unrest , and a wave of arrests began among Albanian activists . |
| 26 | Then a motorcyclist was brought in on a blue light , a dispatch rider who had been burning along the Norwich road and hit a patch of oil . |
| 27 | While county councillors were in the chamber yesterday discussing how much to overspend in Gloucestershire next year , protestors outside were breathing down their necks demanding an end to the threatened cuts that would result if the budget was brought in on target . |
| 28 | It was that Katy Laidlaw , as the Home Organisation Secretary of the Church of Scotland , be brought in on any meeting with C.Aid staff and the Committee . |
| 29 | A younger generation , or at least a younger American generation , has been brought up on a list of acid tests , invented to get rid of the boiled oatmeal consistency of the bad verse of 1900 , and there is no doubt that many young readers seeing Binyon 's inversions , etc. , will be likely to throw down the translation under the impression that it is incompetent . |
| 30 | They were brought up on Deepdale plastic , gleaming under powerful floodlights . |