Example sentences of "'d brought " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she 'd let him have a slice of the cake she 'd brought in if he gave her and her friend fruit or ice cream — whatever he 'd bought . |
| 2 | Fiona telephoned during the afternoon to say that she 'd brought Harry home and he wanted to see me , so with a sigh but little reluctance I abandoned the empty page and walked down to the village . |
| 3 | Besides the map , I 'd brought along my faithful compass , and by its reckoning checked the boys ' direction all the time . |
| 4 | She had changed into the spare slacks and jersey he 'd brought from Golden Girl . |
| 5 | And a Liverpool painter 's son , who after his father died ‘ was brought up with me grandmother ’ , calling her ‘ mother ’ , chose not to return to his real mother when she remarried and could offer him a home again : ‘ They 'd brought me up , and it would n't be fair for them to take me after from rearing me . ’ |
| 6 | And the only trouble was , she 'd brought her mother along as well . |
| 7 | Well , at least he 'd brought her home . |
| 8 | He did n't advise but just stood there , nodding his head vaguely and smiling to himself while his hands — almost involuntarily — went through the motions of twisting the spindle he 'd brought with him and winding on the wool . |
| 9 | It was pitch dark in the stable and , even with the burning sticks of jharo we 'd brought from upstairs , we could see nothing at first . |
| 10 | She 'd brought some desu , flat buckwheat bread that 's taken on journeys because it stays fresh for days , and some roasted amaranthus seeds in honey , wrapped in birch bark . |
| 11 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 12 | He said that the doctor seemed to think Sigarup would be all right — although his chances would have been better if they 'd brought him sooner . |
| 13 | Kalchu climbed on to the roof of the house , and with the flame he 'd brought from the shrine fire set light to the two piles of jharo . |
| 14 | He 'd brought home some hairs from the cross on the back of a donkey when she was cutting her teeth , and Ma had made a little black silk bag to put them in so they could hang round her neck to keep the funny turns away . |
| 15 | She was shouting after the Oye-Eboe who 'd brought gunpowder , beads and dried fish to trade for wood-ash salt and the perfumed woods and earth of his tribe . |
| 16 | Jess did n't add she 'd brought it on herself , being too liberal with the gin bottle after swilling strong beer with her food . |
| 17 | McGowan vanished with a couple they 'd brought home in the car . |
| 18 | Apparently he 'd brought the corpse in and then tried to claim commission on it . |
| 19 | Sometimes they 'd fuck right away , or sometimes they 'd wait till they were about to leave , but they 'd always do it on the sheet , the same sheet he 'd brought that first time , as if , without it , some spell might be broken and everything would fall apart . |
| 20 | ‘ Wish I 'd brought binoculars . |
| 21 | I had arranged myself ( while she arranged the flowers I 'd brought ) with my back nearly to the light . |
| 22 | He felt doubly glad he 'd brought his own children to live in Scotland where such a superior system of child care existed . |
| 23 | They 'd brought food with them , quite a lot of food . |
| 24 | I wrapped him in the big blanket we 'd brought as he was already shivering . |
| 25 | ‘ God , ’ her husband said , whenever she 'd brought him home before her father died , ‘ what a bloody awful climate … ’ |
| 26 | He patted his clothes until he found the folded , crumpled map they 'd brought all the way from the Store . |
| 27 | But we had a few other cards up our sleeves we were waiting to play : we 'd brought two furry friends along with us . |
| 28 | He was confident he 'd brought her to the stage where he could lay her . |
| 29 | He flattered himself that he was in some small part responsible for such blissful bizarrities , given that over the years he 'd brought all manner of influences through from the Succulent Rock . |
| 30 | He worked on the buses when he arrived , showed me a canopy in front of a hotel that he 'd brought down on his first solo drive . |