Example sentences of "[noun] have brought [adv prt] from " 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 | When Petion returned , Ace had brought out from the TARDIS the four Vickers guns that she had liberated from the palace armoury , and was checking their actions for signs of wear or damage . |
| 3 | They drank whisky and cider , watched pornogrhapic videos that the teacher had brought back from a holiday in Germany . |
| 4 | Her garter belt was a pre-war birthday present , and she wore a pair of the precious nylons that Sylvia had brought back from the States . |
| 5 | Erlich came close to her , kneeling on the rug he knew that Harry had brought back from a fast run to Beirut . |
| 6 | Television came in the wake of other consumer durables : a vacuum cleaner and a boiler for the washing — once used to cook a lobster my father has brought back from the Highlands where he 's been on a spell of painting stations that will be closed by the Beeching plan a decade later . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Eighty-one refugee children went to Bunce Court , the school Anna Essinger had brought over from the Schwäbische Alb mountains of the Danube to Otterden , a large manor house standing in twenty-five acres of Kent countryside . |
| 9 | On the table lay several large swatches of fabrics which Jules had brought out from Paris for Alice 's inspection . |
| 10 | They polished off most of the sausages , which they seemed greatly to enjoy , and Bith of the Bog-Hat and Flaherty shared a firkin of the giants ' ale , which Balor had brought up from the cellars . |
| 11 | In my babyhood , he had asked the great Australian centre Dave Brown to let me be photographed with an enormous stuffed lion Brown had brought back from a Kangaroo tour of Great Britain . |