Example sentences of "brought to [pos pn] knees " in BNC.
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| 1 | The monarchy has been rocked to its foundations and a Government still basking in the glow of re-election has been brought to its knees by a series of disasters . |
| 2 | Our motor industry has been brought to its knees with redundancies at Rolls-Royce and Ford . |
| 3 | For those daft enough to have missed the last issue , Black Night is a twopart text driven adventure game , in which a peaceful medieval village was brought to its knees by an evil warlord . |
| 4 | The trade unions have sustained the Labour party over all these years and Labour gave the trade unions the appalling powers which were so badly abused in the run-up to the 1979 election when , as we all know , the country was brought to its knees by a new strike almost every week . |
| 5 | But a great many more , both public and private were brought to their knees and many well known names eventually disappeared through acquisition or merger . |
| 6 | But the people of Scotland and Britain will never forget the sad 13 years in which people have been brought to their knees . |
| 7 | A woman wants a man to be strong , and then some perversity in her enjoys seeing him brought to his knees — was that it ? |