Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] brought [pers pn] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Bending with the wind that brought you to me , ’ he quipped , the humour harsh and followed by a shrug .
2 He plucked one of them from its place and brought it to her .
3 " Busy people are never too busy to do what they know to be important " was the challenging comment that brought me under his spell and a bit later into the ranks of his followers .
4 His words were like a sharp slap that brought her to her senses .
5 Fabia watched as , dropping the dog lead on to a large kitchen table , the dark man addressed a few remarks to the woman who then went to a drawer and took from it a large tin box and brought it to him .
6 He reached for her hand and brought it to his lips .
7 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 .
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