Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb past] bring [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Arsenal began to display some of the tidy , organised football that had brought them four consecutive victories and they were rewarded with a superb equaliser 16 minutes from time when Campbell latched onto Martin Keown 's long pass , ghosted past two defenders and hammered the ball home . |
| 2 | She also told him that it was prayer that had brought him to her . |
| 3 | It was pretty much like the cab of the truck that had brought them from the Store . |
| 4 | He had served twenty-four years in the US House of Representatives , including nine as Minority Leader of the Republicans , and it was Ford 's popularity on both sides of the aisle that had brought him to the presidency . |
| 5 | There had been anger as well at the cruel jest of fate that had brought her into love with her own brother . |
| 6 | It was her deep sorrow and unhappiness at the tragic accident that had brought them to the United States , together with all the fraught , highly charged tension of having to be in Ross 's company for any length of time , which had taken its toll of her already precariously weak reserves of strength . |
| 7 | The dream ended with the thought that if I had known this was the main road I need not have resorted to the acrobatics that had brought me there . |
| 8 | Now that he was in charge and had brought her home ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She could not really let herself understand what he was saying , but she knew she had to speak out , to let him know it was not just the thought of her father that had brought her here . |
| 11 | The commission that had brought us to Préfleur was for music to a libretto by M. Xavier Frontenac . |
| 12 | It was the music that had brought me in from the hall where I had been lying . |
| 13 | That the Romans had " abandoned the disciplined , frugal and stern manner of life that had brought them to such greatness , and fell into the pernicious pursuit of luxury and licence " ( 37.2. 1 ) was , in the same perspective , seen as the primary cause of the Social War . |
| 14 | He explained about the legend and the Monument and the meteorite that had brought it in the first place . |
| 15 | She flung herself on the end of the bed and began to bring him further up to date . |
| 16 | How could he ever admit to Maisie that the very thing that had brought them together was , like so much else in his life , a lie ? |
| 17 | It was the Mataura that had brought them from Scotland , and it had to be a good omen . |
| 18 | It was his profession that had brought him that shaft of insight , and he felt mildly safer because of it . |
| 19 | By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine . |
| 20 | Now she swayed on the towering waves to the north , and glittering on her prow were the slim copper tubes that had faced the ship of the Order that had brought them all from Rhodes to Cyprus . |
| 21 | The pain that had brought him sharply back to consciousness seared violently through his stomach . |
| 22 | In fact , it was while he was up for the interview that he read in The Times the advertisement that had brought him to Burleigh : |
| 23 | She looked at him blankly , conscious of the anticlimax that had brought her tumbling down from out of the clouds , then she nodded , while making an effort to convey the impression that his kiss had failed to have the slightest effect upon her . |