Example sentences of "bring [pers pn] to the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan was to rescue a coach load of Bosnian children from the fighting in the former Yugoslavia and bring them to the safety of England . |
| 2 | Bringing them to the brink of consummation and then forcing them to retreat either because of an interruption or because one or both of the lovers suffer from doubt or shame is an appropriate Silhouette device . |
| 3 | If ever you have word when I am not by , it will bring you to the prince in my place . |
| 4 | A good performance in the ‘ B ’ or regional squads may bring you to the attention of the national coach , and may also result in your promotion to the élite squads . |
| 5 | However , something on new or developing areas of law , specific cases ( if your clients agree and you believe that it may help them ) and items of genuine local interest can all bring you to the attention of the editors . |
| 6 | She imagined that to walk that track , and to climb the rough hewn rock around the mouth of the cave , would bring her to the top of the canyon . |
| 7 | ‘ He 'll manage twenty-five miles or so by nightfall , and that will bring him to the stream over there called the Carron , with a dozen miles of forest and boggy ground between himself and the main river-crossing . |
| 8 | All from little deals that pass away quite quietly unless we can bring it to the attention of the public . |
| 9 | And if he does bring it to the attention of the authorities , the problem then arises that in many cases , and I 've seen it in my experience , he will be dissuaded |
| 10 | If there are discrepancies we 'll bring it to the attention of the home office . |
| 11 | This zest should be carried into the transcendent and should bring us to the horizons of mental thought . |
| 12 | It is not far away ; an hour 's journey through the Forest would bring us to the shore from which it can be seen . |
| 13 | Outgoing BAIE national chairman Phillipa Burrow , who appeared with her in the BBC studios at Pebble Mill in Birmingham , said the number of cot deaths had fallen by 60 per cent since Anne Diamond had brought them to the attention of the public and the Government . |
| 14 | I believe that we achieve this very successfully , and when you bear in mind the pressure under which the Magistracy have been in recent times , with erm industrial action , demonstrations , which have brought them to the forefront of the attention , I think it 's a remarkably achievement that the Magistrates have come through this with the public in general terms satisfied with the performance of Magistrates in the discharge of these very onerous functions . |
| 15 | At times the loneliness of her position has brought her to the edge of despair , so much so that she has made a number of suicide attempts , some more half-hearted than others . |
| 16 | The following unusual use of to provides further confirmation of this : ( 25 ) She waited , Kate Croy , for her father to come in , but he kept her unconscionably , and there were moments at which she showed herself , in the glass over the mantel , a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him . |
| 17 | The slow sexual friction had brought him to the verge of orgasm . |
| 18 | So what has brought the best known boxer on the unofficial circuit , the best known bouncer in town , the man who has inspired film scripts and tall tales in the snooker halls , once one of the six people in Britain said to be able to bench-press 500 pounds , what has brought him to the dock in front of Judge Richard Lowry and to the possibility of spending the rest of his life locked up with robbers and rapists ? |
| 19 | The aesthetic evidenced in these rooms has also brought us to the brink of World War Ill . |
| 20 | The dots have brought us to the bottom of a page — an appropriate point , since we have also , surely , reached the nadir of these proceedings , perhaps of all proceedings in the whole history of the modern Civil Service . |
| 21 | ‘ It worries me to death bringing her to the races at long odds-on , but she is a great filly and just flies out of the stalls , ’ said trainer Richard Hannon . |
| 22 | She turned her face away , embarrassment bringing her to the brink of tears . |
| 23 | Despite this rivalry the new Emperor restored Bavaria to Henry in 1154 , bringing him to the height of his power as a German prince . |
| 24 | The road brought them to the centre of the two rows of thatched cottages . |
| 25 | The hill people cut the palms down in the forest and brought them to the shore for fish . |
| 26 | ‘ The report would not have come to the Bank as such a surprise either if PW … had more plainly and directly , more consistently , more comprehensively and , if they felt their messages were not being received , more vigorously , brought them to the notice of the Bank . ’ |
| 27 | But he proved right about the size of Switham Thicket , for a bare quarter of a mile brought them to the outskirts of the other side , and almost immediately the horse was turned into a walled aperture of crumbling stone , its high , rusty iron gates wide open . |
| 28 | He had sailed to Ninfania from Illyria , in a big double bass of a galleon , with a prow carved like a volute , and it brought him to the shore in the harbour he then designated Ribaris , after the peak where the Ark had come to rest , once all the waters of the flood had drained out of the plughole of divine fury . |
| 29 | A few easy moves brought him to the sanctuary of the belay ledge . |
| 30 | 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 . |