Example sentences of "have brought " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three wishes would have brought her perfect sight , a million pounds and an ape-hanger motorbike . |
| 2 | ‘ I would have brought a copy away but they wanted them all . |
| 3 | ‘ Partridge , who acts as guide , as boots , postilion , and boatman , at the Salutation Inn , might have brought us down an easier descent ; but as he had been out with a chaise all night , he was perhaps induced , from fatigue , to take us the nearest way . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've been doing Bona-Fido for about two years but still get some guests who do n't realise they could have brought their dogs along , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Speedie should have brought the aggregate level after 25 minutes , but leant back as he met a lay-off by Cyrille Regis , and his shot ballooned over the bar . |
| 6 | If either had applied promptly , the appellant would have brought into the action at an earlier stage and the defendant would , in all probability , have been forced to give consideration then to the making of a claim to contribution in respect of his liability , if proved , to the plaintiff . |
| 7 | When he died six years later he left her all his gardening books : not just the technical instruction manuals , but coffee-table picture books , historical studies and a collection of exquisite , hand-tinted Victorian flower drawings , and a Beatrix Potter original which , she now knew , would keep Maggie in shoes for the rest of her childhood if Phoebe could have brought herself to sell it . |
| 8 | Barry Trevaskis , who had six stitches put in a horrible wound under his left eye after being stamped on in a ruck , might not agree that the Soviets lacked meanness , but had their half-backs Chapman and Rule not missed six penalties between them , Cornwall could have brought off an unexpected win . |
| 9 | It was the sort of contribution to British life which might have brought him an honour . |
| 10 | Iraq might , even at this stage , have stopped the war if it could have brought itself to accept , quickly , the diplomatic initiative advanced this week by the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | Bank of America would have brought extra competition that threatened to remove the surplus capacity the unpleasant way — by sending some other bank to the wall . |
| 12 | In Japan the securities industry , whose profits have been built on shares sold to housewives in the Japanese equivalent of Tupperware parties , is desperately worried that last year 's stockmarket crash may have brought the party to an end . |
| 13 | Apart from the huge expense of acceding to the health workers ' demands , defeat for the Government would have brought in its train a series of demands from other workers which it would have found hard to resist . … |
| 14 | Labour candidates found themselves pledged to unilateral disarmament , withdrawal from the European Community and an economic policy that would have brought the country to bankruptcy within weeks . |
| 15 | If Philip had had any sense he 'd have brought it down with him , that and the other stuff . |
| 16 | If we had gone on , our love would have brought us the death we secretly called up every time we embraced . |
| 17 | How could she have brought herself to think such a thing , let alone put it into words — let alone threaten me ! |
| 18 | Yet it does not occur to them that God might have brought about the defeat as an act of judgement upon them , and unlike Joshua and the elders in the story of Ai in Joshua 7 , they do not bother to turn to God to discover his mind . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , you should have brought her to me long before , long before , Alida . |
| 20 | The view that the assassination of Hitler would have brought the end of the war was reported as the opinion of many inhabitants of the town of Bad Aibling in his administrative region . |
| 21 | Although , today , recombination in eukaryotes is in the main confined to fairly close relatives , the origin of the eukaryotes may have brought together genetic material from distant sources on a dramatic scale . |
| 22 | The Uttoxeter race last month , when he was third to today 's rival Laura 's Beau , will have brought him to full racing fitness after just four runs ( two over hurdles ) in the intervening 23 months . |
| 23 | This would have brought Mr Bush into the case as his Vice-Presidential office was the first in Washington to be contacted from Central America when an aircraft was shot down by the Sandinistas . |
| 24 | Gall equalised when he towered above the Derby defence to head in Munday 's free-kick , but Meade should have brought them level immediately after Gabbiadini 's first goal but slid the ball wide six yards out . |
| 25 | Only one God can have brought the world into being , supervise it in the present and bring it to its end . |
| 26 | It was one of those rare occasions when a covert operation could be examined in the full glare of publicity and it showed what a foolhardy idea it was from the start for , even if Crabb had returned safely , it is unlikely he could have brought back enough information to have justified the risk in the first place . |
| 27 | In 1588 , Sir John Popham was Attorney General and could have brought great influence to bear . |
| 28 | That communal release of euphoria across Blackheath results from the combination of the final arrival of ‘ the Moment ’ , plus the increase in energy which easing down training will have brought . |
| 29 | But before these matters could be considered the court had to address an argument for the Crown which , if it had succeeded , would have brought an immediate end to the matter . |
| 30 | His parent did not force him to attend and he now feels this might have brought scorn from other members of the community . |