Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] brought [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reform of both property and divorce law modernised and rationalised the institution of marriage and brought it into line with new kinds of family wealth and relationships . |
| 2 | He poured out a large measure of the whiskey and brought it to McQuaid . |
| 3 | In 795 they aided the Franks against rebellious Saxons , and in 798 the King of the Abotrites actually conquered Nordalbingian rebels , captured their leader and brought him to Charles . |
| 4 | A priest , Father Seraphim , managed to retrieve her body and brought it to Jerusalem via Peking , Shanghai , Hong Kong , Colombo , Bombay and Port Said . |
| 5 | Ace made to throw the weapon , but checked the movement and brought it to Defries . |
| 6 | Tobie had previously met Primaflora on rare occasions only — during the search for Tristâo and Diniz Vasquez on Rhodes ; on the ambushed ship that brought them from Rhodes , and in the King 's hall at Kiti immediately after . |
| 7 | They wanted to know about your servants , and the ship that brought you to England , and everything ! ’ |
| 8 | That was the bigger threat The big thing that brought them to Orkney . |
| 9 | Those woundings had been steps on the path that brought her to Santa de Nogueira , she realized . |
| 10 | The Open Software Foundation 's recent wrestling with its internal structure ( UX No 423 ) , reportedly a product of its continuing financial angst , has created a reorganisation that separates OSF/1 , the operating system that brought it into existence , from the other technologies it has put its name to . |
| 11 | Add up that loss and ask yourself whether a few more pounds spent on books to prosecute the purpose that brought you to college will , in later years , make any difference to your funds . |
| 12 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 13 | His face and body were a mass of bruises after he had been attacked at his home by a forty-strong mob who were preparing to lynch him in the remains of his once beautiful garden when the military had arrived and bundled him into the back of a police van and brought him to La Tambier . |
| 14 | Police closed Borough Road in case of an explosion as 25 firemen fought the blaze and brought it under control after 30 minutes . |