Example sentences of "and brought [pers pn] to " in BNC.

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1 Mamma put her ample arm round Noreen 's shaking shoulders and brought her to the kitchen table and made her sit down .
2 And brought her to with them see and then she stayed here she never went out of here then .
3 The thought disturbed her and brought her to her knees by Scathach 's scarred corpse .
4 And it seemed to her that she was at least two people , for the person who had plunged them into the forest and brought them to this spot was not the same as the person who sat here waiting for Allen to say what he was doing , and for the Friar to return .
5 On 18 September 1991 the mother wrongfully removed the children from Australia and brought them to England .
6 ‘ Yes , ’ continued Mr Brownlow fiercely , ‘ shadows on the wall have caught your whispers with Fagin , and brought them to my ear .
7 The hill people cut the palms down in the forest and brought them to the shore for fish .
8 He held both her hands in his and brought them to his lips .
9 An introductory epigram states that Clearchus copied them exactly in Delphi and brought them to this remote place of Bactriana .
10 Balfour and Sibbald rescued several hundred of Murray 's plants from the Peel estate grounds in Livingston , and brought them to Edinburgh .
11 He clasped her fingers and brought them to his lips .
12 Mr Kendall , you came through the hole , found Mr Goodhaven and brought him to the surface .
13 In 795 they aided the Franks against rebellious Saxons , and in 798 the King of the Abotrites actually conquered Nordalbingian rebels , captured their leader and brought him to Charles .
14 They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ .
15 When Eritrea achieved de facto independence last year , 80 cars went from DC to New Jersey to the home of the veteran Eritrean labour leader Woldeab Wolde Mariam , whom I had met more than 20 years ago in exile in Aden , and brought him to the Washington community church , Saint Selassie .
16 His face and body were a mass of bruises after he had been attacked at his home by a forty-strong mob who were preparing to lynch him in the remains of his once beautiful garden when the military had arrived and bundled him into the back of a police van and brought him to La Tambier .
17 Aung San overcame his plea that he just wanted to go on writing and brought him to Rangoon .
18 Election defeats at the hands of Shaftesbury , now lord chancellor , in 1673 ‘ put him into a great rage ’ and brought him to the fore in parliamentary debates .
19 A Mattel Kriss-Kross mountain bike with stabilisers had caught his neck , when he looked up , and brought him to the ground yet it was the red and yellow tractor which applied the pressure that made his neck give way with an awful crack .
20 He poured out a large measure of the whiskey and brought it to McQuaid .
21 A priest , Father Seraphim , managed to retrieve her body and brought it to Jerusalem via Peking , Shanghai , Hong Kong , Colombo , Bombay and Port Said .
22 Before he reached the top , Delaney paused , and holding with his legs , unslung the Uzi and brought it to one-handed readiness .
23 William Waldorf Astor made the collection in Italy and brought it to Hever where it forms a magnificent sight among the glorious display of shrubs and climbing and herbaceous plants .
24 She made him a sandwich and brought it to the table .
25 Before Mikey had swung the bus around and brought it to a stop she had seen their pale faces in the wet night , the two umbrellas .
26 Lamb claimed he spotted the Pakistani bowlers behaving illegally and brought it to the attention of umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer .
27 Ace made to throw the weapon , but checked the movement and brought it to Defries .
28 She lifted off a heavy daily and brought it to me .
29 He sniffed disapprovingly at the scent , and brought it to Rosheen 's lips .
30 You might guess it was my dad who first pointed out this odd ( and classically Chaotic ) phenomenon and brought it to the attention of us kids .
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