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
Sprigs of fashion by the dozen Thou dost bring to book, good cousin.
From The Poems of Schiller — Suppressed poems by Friedrich Schiller
A baronet of course would not like to be brought to book, as she could bring to book such a one as John Crumb.
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
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
And these three distinguished members of la haute pegre, the aristocracy of roguery, had a reckoning to demand of Jacques Collin, accounts that were somewhat hard to bring to book.
From Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honoré de Balzac
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