Example sentences of "home to i the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly the whereabouts of those bottles , and the number of them , had been one of the P'daytabird 's little secrets , for Warnie writes , ‘ Nothing brought home to me the finality of the old life as did the carrying out of those bottles and putting them into [ the ] car — to see the mysteries of that jealously guarded secret room emerge as plain matter of fact bottles , and the cellar stand revealed as an ordinary empty cupboard was an unpleasant feeling . ’ |
| 2 | This touching but morbid In Memoriam served only to bring home to me the realisation of what now seemed inevitable . |
| 3 | Through the AC30 I found it possible to find some pretty convincing old Phantom sounds , ramming home to me the fact that if you can put up with the tuning hassles , a 12-string is still one of the best guitars to use for rhythm . |
| 4 | Borne on the clean sea breeze this strange alien farmyard smell from bird droppings suddenly brought home to me the density of the bird population on shore which had yet to reveal itself . |
| 5 | The exercise brought home to me the need — and indeed the advantage — of establishing within the college a culture or ethos of total institutional responsibility for the quality of what we devise , offer and deliver . |
| 6 | My brief visit certainly brought home to me the grim realities that lie behind the many statistics on Third World debt . |
| 7 | Those photographs brought home to me the abomination of desolation that is Croatia now . |
| 8 | This brought home to me the fact that paying lots of money for an established defender ( central ) is a massive risk . |