Example sentences of "brought back from [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , they were things that Mikhoels had brought back from Chagall as a gift for the Tretyakov Gallery . |
| 2 | Nor have the Government responded to reports in Conservative newspapers such as The Times and The Sunday Times which were apparently augmented by evidence brought back from Iraq by United Nations inspectors , and the details of which were plastered all over those newspapers . |
| 3 | On Wednesday , he swallowed his pride , banked Dysart 's cheque and purchased a car with most of what remained from the cash he had brought back from Rhodes . |
| 4 | The influence of Cézanne is seen strongly and consistently in some of the paintings Picasso brought back from La Rue-des-Bois in the autumn of 1908 . |
| 5 | After the fourth and last bottle of raksi had been drunk , Śa kar got out the double-ended drum brought back from India by his grandfather many years ago . |
| 6 | Or had something which had been brought back from Romania in another golf bag been fitted inside it ? |
| 7 | Rod Jones hopes two more children can be brought back from Romania for operations in the summer . |
| 8 | From an early age , his mother and father showed him the illustrated books on the subject which they had brought back from London , and described at length the wonders of the ballets they had seen danced there by the Diaghilev company , ‘ when they were young and in love ’ , as John put it later . |
| 9 | But Coleridge never arrived , and early in January the now beleaguered Southey decided that his endlessly procrastinating friend must be brought back from London . |
| 10 | General Montgomery , who had been brought back from Italy to take a very prominent part in the ‘ D day ’ operation and the subsequent advance through France , Belgium , Holland and Germany , had been appointed Field Marshall and found himself considered a hero of the people , wherever he went . |
| 11 | Some years later , we are told , travellers brought back from Italy an account of the saint 's life , about which nothing had been known previously . |
| 12 | In his book " Memoirs of an Artist Naturalist " ( 1954 ) he mentions these visits , quoting from his diary for " September 24 , 1936 , hawking in the afternoon with a gyr-falcon which the late Ernest Vesey ( pen name of Ernest Lewis ) had brought back from Iceland . " |
| 13 | now she has an iris mountain , with Sir Cedric 's and the many more she grew from seed brought back from America , fenced off from the main garden in her ‘ Stalag 13 look ’ . |
| 14 | For the first time Selene , brought back from Hampstead for the funeral , spoke up . |
| 15 | ’ On the north-east corner he asked for a castellated bell tower in which to house the bell he had brought back from Lille . |
| 16 | I met him two or three years later when I asked if he would make me a dress for the March of Dimes , using some peony pink silk that Winston brought back from China . |
| 17 | Almost danced with joy as the royal corpse was brought back from Kinghorn ? |
| 18 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 19 | He declared that he was ‘ a British subject by birth ’ , born at Rutledge Terrace , Galway , a house which his family did not inhabit until some years after William Joyce had been brought back from New York . |
| 20 | Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea . |
| 21 | One of the most popular things in the garden — especially with children — is the Bear Hut which used to house a black bear cub one of the Acland sons brought back from Canada . |
| 22 | The two cuisines of Louisiana can both be sampled in these recipes brought back from John Folses ' plantation restaurant White Oaks , in Baton Rouge , Louisiana . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | East Yzordderrex maybe , in the Kesparates built close to the harbour where Oscar liked to bargain for contraband brought back from Hakaridek or the islands . |
| 25 | The son of a wealthy London merchant , Lethieullier was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries ; he knew both William and John Hunter , who in turn must have been aware of his collection of Egyptian antiquities , amongst which were some mummies brought back from Egypt to Aldersbrook by Lethieullier 's cousin , Colonel William Lethieullier . |
| 26 | Is that material brought back from San Francisco . |
| 27 | Carrying a cross brought back from Jerusalem before them , the " army of peace " caught up with the Brabançons at Malemort , near Brive , and relieved their outraged feelings in an orgy of slaughter . |
| 28 | That , those , those two that Paddy brought back from Australia apparently does it . |
| 29 | There were more puris — a whole basketful — eaten with hot spicy potatoes , fried in mustard oil brought back from Aula , and there was rice for everyone , and an emerald green soup of wild young ka kani leaves . |
| 30 | The solid bulk of the nation was as dedicated as ever to the war , phlegmatic and unquestioning , turning a closed mind and a deaf ear to the tales men brought back from Verdun , in much the same way as when , to the succeeding generation , rumours began to filter out from the concentration camps . |