Example sentences of "of bringing [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amanda Knatchbull , and by 1979 was busy plotting ways of bringing them together . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not a question of bringing them to more people — Emporio has never been for the poor — but of morals ; with the Nineties there comes a new thinking about how much it 's right to spend on clothes and I certainly go along with that . ’ |
| 3 | But here they are , at the start of chapter 16 , wishing aloud that God had not passed them by on that dreadful night in Egypt , accusing Moses , accusing Moses , of bringing them into the desert to die ! |
| 4 | He issues this warning to parents : ‘ Let them not too much apply themselves to the disposition of their children ’ — in short , not to become obsessed with the whole business of bringing them up . |
| 5 | The question of how to discipline children has always been of central importance to the whole enterprise of bringing them up . |
| 6 | After 1870 education for the Poles was seen as a way of bringing them within the German order , of lightening their Slav darkness by opening up to them the world of ‘ civilisation ’ . |
| 7 | Or , more probably , since he is a serving naval officer , that the paternal grandmother , the Queen , was likely to make a better job than their mother of bringing them up . |
| 8 | Words and names , as we all know from everyday experience , possess magical power : naming and identifying experiences and things imposes some degree of control over them and gives at least the illusion of bringing them within our power . |
| 9 | Because a woman , by virtue of giving birth to a succession of children , is then landed with the task of bringing them up , is no cause to suppose children are best taught by the handful , the dozen , the score . |
| 10 | I had three easy pregnancies , three easy births and I loved every minute of bringing them up . |
| 11 | Is that natural after all the years of bringing him up ? ’ |
| 12 | But I feel that I am now in the way of bringing him to me since I have a house and am no longer in service and need only to arrange to have him brought over . |
| 13 | The idea of bringing him to justice . |
| 14 | ‘ I was n't thinking of bringing him to justice . |
| 15 | ‘ People barely had enough food to live on , but thought nothing of bringing him into their homes and feeding him and giving him somewhere to sleep . |
| 16 | ‘ I had to lay him off but I had every intention of bringing him back the following season . |
| 17 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |
| 18 | We started the gradual process of bringing him back into work , hoping that he had been through all his disasters in one go : first he cut himself and had to be stitched , and then he got kicked on the hock . |
| 19 | I had a mum as a single parent and two grandparents and they did an excellent job of bringing me up ! |
| 20 | This rejection at least served the purpose of bringing me face to face with the uncomfortable fact that I was now without a job and almost without an occupation . |
| 21 | Even if this were true , he is still guilty of bringing her to a state of desire that he can not rightfully satisfy . |
| 22 | We toyed with the idea of bringing her down from the gallery and onto the set one evening . |
| 23 | They stood , in silent vigil , at her side : Tiguary implored the chief to find a way of bringing her back with them , offered himself in exchange , but Ariel knew that Sycorax could still not be moved any distance without endangering her life . |
| 24 | He met her incredulous stare blandly , for all the world as if he had no recollection whatsoever of bringing her the Palmer & Pearson file outside the office , of discussing the Norwood & Chambers contract outside the office , of his threats in relation to her job outside the office . |
| 25 | Your mother , abandoned by your unknown father , had the job of bringing you up on her own . |
| 26 | This , however , is not the thinking — and it may be presumptuous — that moved BBC2 to hit us between the frontal lobes with Jonathan Miller 's states of mind ( 20 February ) , a series that will march on for 15 weeks in the cause of bringing us up to date with what is happening in psychology . |
| 27 | erm I mean as I said before , I do n't have relatives out in the Gulf , but I feel immensely for these men that are out there , men and women , and also for the news reporters , I mean nobody 's actually said what an awful job it must be for these news reporters and sort of camera crews that are actually erm doing this sort of wonderful job of bringing us back here all this information . |
| 28 | Whether the reader disagrees with that message or not , Eliot can not be accused of suddenly presenting it or of bringing it to the fore simply because of his Christian faith . |
| 29 | The usual way of coping with their father had been to make no reference to anything untoward that might have happened , for fear of bringing it all upon them again . |
| 30 | And that was one of the justifications of bringing it in , that it would raise a sense of er it would raise erm the actual percentage of people voting in elections and it would make local issues er more pertinent at local elections . |