Example sentences of "bring [noun] to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kate , 19 , of Andover , Hants , who won a bronze medal , said : ‘ You bring honour to your country and they stop your money . ’ |
| 2 | He broached the idea of bringing Anthony to his mother 's next party , hinting his son needed help in getting a girlfriend , too . |
| 3 | With such thoughts bringing peace to my troubled , weary being I sank gently into sleep , to dream of the happiness to be found among the galaxy 's wonders by someone who had just become immeasurably rich … |
| 4 | Goering thought the Blitz would bring England to its knees and we would sue for an armistice . |
| 5 | Not only does his poem bring attention to its control of verse , Herbert signals a poetic origin for his expression which is regal and divinely sanctioned . |
| 6 | The Grummit-Maker and Tube Weekly " may not have the glamour of a national daily , but the opinion or recommendation of the editor of the former could actually bring business to your company . |
| 7 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 8 | While Dicentra exima ‘ Alba ’ , white anemones , hydrangeas , campanulas and daisies will bring interest to your flowerbeds until autumn . |
| 9 | A blockade of the rubber ships would soon bring Leopold to his knees . |
| 10 | ‘ Many of the things which bring joy to our hearts in the countryside have been destroyed , ’ said Sir David . |
| 11 | It will include an investigation of the extent to which the workforce can stimulate employer interest by bringing possibilities to their attention through formal or informal consultation . |
| 12 | Although , claiming that they bring attention to their own historicity , New Historicists are reluctant to map out what that historicity is . |
| 13 | In order to encourage the internal generation a ideas , senior management must provide a clear mechanism for bringing ideas to their attention . |
| 14 | The gravitational separation of helium is negligible and in this model always would have been , because the evolutionary sequence that yields this present state has a hot start from formation 4600 Ma ago , the atmospheric regulated loss of the heat of formation bringing Jupiter to its present state . |
| 15 | It 's all in response to the drought that 's bringing Africa to its knees . |
| 16 | BRING COLOUR TO YOUR GARDEN BY FOLLOWING OUR CREATIVE BEDDING SCHEMES FOR POTS AND TUBS |
| 17 | She trembled with a vivid awareness that was tingling through her whole body , bringing warmth to her skin and champagne into her bloodstream . |
| 18 | And all of them to do with the dull task of bringing people to their deaths . |
| 19 | The sun was not yet clear of the eastward banks of cloud , and the light was colourless and amorphous from the evening 's soft rain , but clear enough to show what had brought Tutilo to his knees in the darkness , and yet remained unseen . |
| 20 | After the Second World War , the street had changed , and she knew that had brought sadness to her late father . |
| 21 | To him we were still the missionaries who had brought God to his soul and law to his land . |
| 22 | The punchline actually brought tears to her eyes and caused Isa Peebles to laugh so hard she almost fell off her stool . |
| 23 | A fire brigade spokesman said last night : ‘ It 's a serious matter — but it must have brought tears to her eyes . ’ |
| 24 | So many feelings raced through her as she stood there — admiration , delight and pleasure that almost brought tears to her eyes . |
| 25 | That really would have brought tears to my eyes . |
| 26 | ‘ It nearly brought tears to my eyes , ’ confessed Dr Phil Gates yesterday in recalling the moment that he had a polythene bag in front of him which contained £250,000 in old notes . |
| 27 | He had passed by the very spot only the other day , and it had brought tears to his eyes . |
| 28 | The boeuf Gardiane which followed brought tears to our eyes ; we had been overwrought and dropping with fatigue , and while the food we had already eaten had cheered and comforted us , it was n't until the cover was taken off the dish of beef stew and we smelt the wine and the garlic and the rich juices and saw the little black olives and the branches of wild thyme which had scented the stew laid in a little network over the meat , that the tension vanished . |
| 29 | Champagne had brought Ninotchka to her feet , declaiming , I vant to make a speech ! |
| 30 | The wind whistled in her face bringing tears to her eyes . |