Example sentences of "brought home [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That particular spring our son brought home a dark-haired , dark-eyed , lively lady who would become a third daughter , moulding into the family clan as though born part of it . |
| 2 | After two major operations , Gloria could no longer have children , but one day Saul brought home a baby he had found abandoned on the mud-flats at low tide . |
| 3 | One particularly notable vessel which he designed was the Stirling Castle , famed for her speed , for example , when in 1882 she brought home a cargo of 6,000 tons of China tea from Hankow in twenty-eight days , beating the previous best time by more than a week . |
| 4 | On the who ] e expectations were confined — doubtless realistically — to hoping for a ‘ good husband ’ : that is one who brought home a regular wage and with whom a relationship could be built upon mutual respect . |
| 5 | Last week ( June 1993 ) I brought home a letter from my daughter . |
| 6 | Along with the souvenirs , he brought home a reminder of a broken arm . |
| 7 | The Ladies 60 age group brought home the highest honours : both Rita Lauder ( Hampshire & Isle of Wight ) — and Ruth Illingworth ( Essex ) reached the singles'' semi-finals , each losing to top-ranked American players , while Ruth , in a new partnership with Ann Williams ( Somerset ) , beat the numbers 1 and 2 seeded pairs to take the title at their first attempt . |
| 8 | With Britain a nation of mortgage-holders who operated in an economy based in large measure on the credit system , this brought home the immediacy of the government 's difficulties with the economy to almost every householder in the land . |
| 9 | Take the latest ‘ History of the Soviet Union ’ for children in the final two years of school , which my son , Benjamin , brought home the other day . |
| 10 | All of which brought home the final lesson I had to go back to school to learn . |
| 11 | The goal deluge at St James 's Park brought home the need to counter the effects of the new offside law which came into force that summer and which reduced from three to two the number of players required to be between an opposing attacker and goal when the ball was last played . |
| 12 | It brought home the obvious points , I suppose . |
| 13 | BRAVE teenager Tammy Beard , whose weeping face brought home the full horror of the IRA bomb blitz on Manchester , went back to work yesterday declaring : ‘ We ca n't let the IRA win . ’ |
| 14 | It brought home the family 's humiliation and anguish after being forced to move out . |
| 15 | Similarly in 1966 , watching the World Cup on tv in Liverpool brought home the exotic skills of Portugal 's Eusebio , Garrincha of Brazil , Albert and Farkas of Hungary . |
| 16 | As the record states , he brought home an impressive collection of penises , cut from his foes : |
| 17 | And despite Robbie 's protest that his daughter might also scold if he brought home an unexpected extra guest , the Reverend Mr Taylor hustled them out of the church and towards the adjoining house . |