Example sentences of "and brought [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | she stuck the kid in the back of the car and put the grocery in and she picked her up and brought her into the front seat , ti , tied her in and and the the , the , the , this thing was coming about |
| 32 | Er , no what happened , my sister came up and brought her two kids in the afternoon |
| 33 | ‘ All right , ’ he said , ‘ I 'll go and get a bottle , ’ and he went and got a bottle of ale and brought one out for himself . |
| 34 | They 've got one in Argos but the colours are disgusting and it 's twenty pound , you see I went and brought one for Boo Boo , that one from Argos |
| 35 | The disappointment is vivid yet of the Christmas day when the postman arrived at last , hours late , and brought me only a long narrow box of crackers . |
| 36 | But he was very kind , and brought me all the M & B tablets he could find , with instructions to get you back to bed , and to keep you from other children , and give you M & B every four hours until you were sick , and then try them again very slowly . |
| 37 | Lyall , who piloted Town to the Second Division Championship in only his second season , said : ‘ Ipswich came to me out of the blue and brought me back into management . |
| 38 | When our mam died — our dad had been killed down the pit long before — he took me in and brought me up . |
| 39 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 40 | And sometimes the young lord 's wife stole in and sat to listen , and brought me to drink , and sometimes the lady the younger brother is to marry . |
| 41 | By then , I had n't got a wireless but she declared that it was an absolutely necessary thing for someone in my situation and brought me a red one , of the kind that worked on batteries thankfully , not the kind you had to carry for miles to be recharged ! |
| 42 | I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen . |
| 43 | Now they tell me , ’ he said flatly , ‘ that I was in the river , drowning , and Charlotte here pulled me out and brought me round . ’ |
| 44 | Quiss picked up the small attendant by the front of its cloak and brought its blank face up to his own , scraping the creature 's green boots over the surface of the draining board with a rattling noise . |
| 45 | I did n't quite belong in the Jewish dorf-just as well , because horsemen came through more than once and left blood and burnt timbers behind them — and did n't quite belong in the hamlet where my father 's people lived — maybe just as well also , because the crucifixes on their walls did n't save them when the cholera came and brought its own kind of pogrom . |
| 46 | Never again , except in the nostalgic hopefulness of a few — would the ceremonies be performed ; gone were the offerings , the blood-shedding , the fire and incense , the gorgeous ( and the plain ) robes , and the rest of the sacred imagery which ‘ fenced-off ’ God 's otherness from the people — and brought them close to him in awe and penitence . |
| 47 | In The Use of Poetry we see how by a reworking of his earlier , anthropologically inspired stress on poets as connected to the primitive man , Eliot adapted nineteenth-century views of the poet 's task and brought them into his own later poetry . |
| 48 | My screams of terror awoke my parents and brought them rushing in panic to my room . |
| 49 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 50 | The story recalled in Chapter 2 of a stranger named Chipimbi who came to live amongst the Lamba of Zambia , and brought them seeds of maize , sorghum and groundnuts , was one such hero . |
| 51 | The field ambulance minibus ran the boys down into town , and brought them back to camp in hourly shuttles until 0300 hours . |
| 52 | It declared them educable , took them out of their own homes and hospitals and brought them into full-time schooling . |
| 53 | ‘ Oh ! the bones ! ’ said Flora , and brought them from the kitchen — in a Harrods ' bag . |
| 54 | Edward picked them up and brought them over to where we were . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | For instance , I was able to witness the dogs ' problems first-hand as Melanie muzzled them and brought them together into the living room . |
| 57 | He loped down into the basement , dusted off half a dozen bottles of beer and brought them up , found glasses and an opener and took them into the living-room on a tray . |
| 58 | ‘ When we 've rescued those distressed mariners and brought them aboard , you , Jimmy , will have forgotten how to speak Greek . ’ |
| 59 | She went up to the loft and brought them back . |
| 60 | He had kept faith with the Old Man and brought them home . |