bring to book
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"I'm calling on the football authorities to investigate both matches and bring to book anyone found wanting. And if nobody is found guilty of any crime then so be it."
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2022
More than once I had the good fortune to be able to bring to book men who had carried on their trade for years, and who had been entirely unsuspected.
From My Strangest Case by Guy Boothby
Sprigs of fashion by the dozen Thou dost bring to book, good cousin.
From The Poems of Schiller — Suppressed poems by Friedrich Schiller
The physico-chemical forces we can bring to book; we know their orbits, their attractions and repulsions, and just what they will and will not do; we can forecast their movements and foresee their effects.
From The Breath of Life by John Burroughs
Ay! true enough, girl, and we will bring to book the villain who did the deed.
From Beyond the Frontier A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West by Randall Parrish
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