Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] had brought " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some time I had wanted to move further from London with its many social distractions , and now with the half million words of notes I had brought back with me from my world tour waiting to be distilled into a book , I felt the need more than ever . |
| 2 | I was not earning nearly enough for a piano , however modestly priced , but it would cost less than I could raise from one of the famille rose vases I had brought from the house in Park Terrace . |
| 3 | Finally she tried to get down to some more serious work , first skimming through a book about castles she had brought with her , then sketching ruined towers , broken archways and towering keeps . |
| 4 | Lebna Dengel proved friendly to the Portuguese , although dissatisfied with the presents they had brought him and exasperated by their quarrels among themselves . |
| 5 | For in between the two pages of words he had brought himself off , face stretched tight with lust , mind gurgling with images of the girl with black hair and red boots kneeling on a bed so that her full young breasts with long pink nipples dangled into his palms as he mounted her from behind , calling for her to cream , baby , cream . |
| 6 | ‘ I fully expected to see a hangar out there and there was n't one ’ , lamented Kermit as we looked through the many pictures he had brought with him to the Reno Air Races . |
| 7 | Balcon moved , with several of the scriptwriters and directors he had brought up through Gaumont-British , to the American company , MGM . |
| 8 | The next day the Prince was leading a small group of businessmen he had brought over from Britain , including Stephen O'Brien , to look at a scheme called the Boston Compact , evidence that the United States had woken up sooner than anyone else to the dilemma of falling educational standards . |
| 9 | Beador 's own response was reassuring — he thought it a ‘ ripping good idea ’ and gladly added Fontana to the travelling stable of two hunters she had brought down from Yorkshire . |
| 10 | Cynthia Merstam watched in silence as the nurse arranged the big bunch of gladioli she had brought with her to the nursing-home . |
| 11 | Her suitcase was still sitting on the bed , with the few clothes and belongings she had brought with her piled into it . |
| 12 | The room , reached this time from the veranda , was just as lovely as she had remembered , and after folding some clothes neatly in drawers and hanging the rest on satin-padded hangers in the wardrobe she fussed for quite some time with the scanty collection of knick-knacks she had brought , trying to arrange them so that they harmonised with the tranquil simplicity of the décor . |
| 13 | For the past few days he had brought security into her child 's world of distorted perspectives and half comprehended fears . |
| 14 | As it was , the week he spent on Mrs Goreng 's tour confirmed him in the ideas he had brought with him . |
| 15 | My life lay away from them now , and the problems I had brought to work with me that morning reclaimed me with redoubled urgency . |
| 16 | We watched with admiration as Alice our skater , now recovering from her ordeal and the fact that her son was a girl , began to unpack the beautiful Swiss lace gowns she had brought with her . |
| 17 | I had been aware on visits of the changes she had brought into the house , in the food which was more elaborate , recipes culled from women 's magazines , the odd touches about the place , the fact that the bowl full of bulbs was placed on a mat , there were extra arm covers on the chairs , a lace cloth on the chest of drawers in my room , everything had to be protected . |
| 18 | His eyes were intently on her as he came back and he put the things he had brought on her dressing-table , ready to remove . |
| 19 | She plunged happily into the familiar noise and chaos of a house with three boys and unpacked the four plastic shopping bags that contained the gifts she had brought . |
| 20 | She took another step forward , and saw the few personal items she had brought with her lying on the floor . |
| 21 | Eva already had the uniforms she had brought with her for the youth congress . |
| 22 | People going out of the crush for a breather and intimate talk away from the throng could linger without the girls needing the pretty shawls they had brought out to cover their bare arms . |
| 23 | In their nervousness they offered at once the gifts they had brought : tea , fruit , duty-free whiskey — ‘ It 'll be useful to have in the house even if nobody drinks it and we might need a glass ’ — a printed silk headscarf , thick fur gloves . |
| 24 | Sid gave a growl and informed that as I knew nothing about modern techniques he had brought ‘ the lot . ’ |
| 25 | Battuta presented the gifts he had brought from Khorasan ; and in return he was given the post of Qazi ( or judge ) and presented with two villages , a pension of twelve thousand dinars and a house in which to live . |
| 26 | Karl was a master at ignoring unpleasantness , situations he had brought about by his own actions . |
| 27 | Sadie would n't accept any of the various titbits I had brought with me , but with patient coaxing we made it home eventually . |
| 28 | The visibility was poor and on the outward journey she merely concentrated on her driving while Freddie , on the back seat , studied some notes he had brought with him . |
| 29 | He was ostracized after his return by an ‘ electorate ’ which certainly included the 4000 hoplites he had brought back from Ithome , who went on to fight the Spartans hard over thy next decade and a half of warfare ( the First Peloponnesian War , see further p. 39 ) . |
| 30 | Ivy had her hands full with the driving , and although Zen soon gave up trying to follow their route on the maps he had brought with him , which proved to bear only a partial and rather disturbing resemblance to the landscape , like a mild hallucination , he kept up a show of poring over them to try and assuage his guilt at being a mere passenger , unable to share her burden . |