Example sentences of "bring [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , that was some time ago when I was working as a hostess with the British Council and used to collect meet VIPs at the station and bring them here to the university . |
| 2 | A member of the local parish community will collect your son/daughter from home , bring him/her to SPRED then bring him/her home at the end of the session . |
| 3 | It 's now about bringing everyone together for the good of British rugby , ’ said the Scot . |
| 4 | This latter period saw the creation of a labour code ( 1943 ) limiting the functioning of unions to a local and plant level and bringing them tightly under the control of the Ministry of Labour . |
| 5 | Jesus pushed himself off and floated rapidly around the Lift , bringing himself expertly to a stop less than a metre from the slight form of Christine LaFayette . |
| 6 | For me , there is an immediacy about them , an intimacy , that can bring me closer to the writer than anything else . |
| 7 | They hope the investigation will bring them closer to a re-trial . |
| 8 | A Rose Hill bus will bring you almost to the door . |
| 9 | This , of course , will not bring us anywhere near the origin of the change . |
| 10 | things which have brought them here for the afternoon . |
| 11 | History has brought them together as a phenomenon without compare , and it is Pakistan 's good fortune that they are surviving fitness scares long enough to bring many honours to their country . |
| 12 | We stared in stunned shock , realising that the pilot must have made one last superhuman effort not to come down right on our heads , but then just could n't manage those last few yards which would have brought them safely onto the runway . |
| 13 | Clearly he 'd brought her here for a purpose … |
| 14 | His Canadian passport was beautifully forged and had brought him effortlessly into the Republic of Ireland and thence on the ferry to England . |
| 15 | He should have been at boarding school , but his mother , who loved him very much , had brought him home for a month or two , because she thought his health was delicate . |
| 16 | There were always cream cakes and I would be brought mine ceremoniously on a plate . |
| 17 | But my colleague has brought it forward on a matter of safety . |
| 18 | Someone must have brought it here for a purpose , but I must admit it looks abandoned . |
| 19 | To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste . |
| 20 | had brought us here along the shore , |
| 21 | Essentially this is a matter of love for the total cosmic reality of which we are a part as something whose magnificence transcends our own puny being , and gratitude to it for having brought us forth in the heart of it . |
| 22 | His room overlooked our house , and he could watch the comings and goings — we were having some turf laid at the time in which he was taking a great interest — and I used to drive round there every evening at half past five and bring him home for a meal , after which we would chat or watch television . |
| 23 | Last autumn a conference in Toronto brought them together for an update and planning meeting . |
| 24 | For instance , I was able to witness the dogs ' problems first-hand as Melanie muzzled them and brought them together into the living room . |
| 25 | On a bitterly cold November day , Richard collected Joan and the small , pale , vulnerable bundle and brought them home to the boat . |
| 26 | It was like toys : when you brought them home from the shop and got them out of the box they were never quite the same . |
| 27 | He brought me home from the hospital . ’ |
| 28 | It deadened his days and brought him upright in the night , running with sweat and fear , his arms held out clutching the gun with which he had just shot his mother . |
| 29 | brought him there for the view , but it was impossible not to watch just the aircraft lights , perhaps macabrely hoping one would lose its grip . |
| 30 | When he brought him home after a walk , Jim bit him . |