Example sentences of "[pers pn] have brought from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I chose a straw hat I had brought from Nigeria . |
| 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 | I held up a bottle of Long John that I had brought from Helsinki . |
| 4 | Everything she had brought from Manchester now seemed so provincial . |
| 5 | And she baked some bread with the millet flour that she had brought from her own garden . |
| 6 | Fenella had gone back to the bed-chamber and pulled on her boots and found the warm woollen cloak she had brought from Renascia while Caspar had raided the sculleries and packed the maps . |
| 7 | By her bed was a chest of drawers which contained her underwear — several pairs of cheap directoire knickers , vests , petticoats , and corsets , plus black stockings of wool , cotton , and one precious silk pair which she had brought from her old life . |
| 8 | She was busy stuffing our cupboards , the fridge and the freezer with the food and supplies she had brought from the town . |
| 9 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 12 | With the good weather our thoughts turned seaward and at Whitsun we launched our nine foot dinghy which we had brought from England . |
| 13 | Next day I was a second rigger on a Vickers Victoria — a large troop carrier known as the " flying pig " because of its girth , The squadron had a general purpose role and just how general call be gauged by my first flight , which was only a couple of days later — to deliver a coffin-like box to RAF Shaibah near Basra , The journey only took a few hours , On arrival the coffin was decanted and refilled with ice and shark meat in exchange for the pork we had brought from the squadron pig firm . |
| 14 | ‘ Half the room is wearing clothes they 've brought from your posh shop , ’ he said to Daisy . |
| 15 | She made a little oatmeal porridge for Enoch , and for the three adults she cooked bacon and potatoes , in the iron pan they had brought from home , and used some of the water ration to make tea . |
| 16 | The agreement and friendship between the two men was sealed when the Ukrainians insisted in the toasts being drunk in the special pepper vodka they had brought from home for just such an occasion . |
| 17 | She had changed into the spare slacks and jersey he 'd brought from Golden Girl . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He took out the keys that he 'd brought from the office back home , and opened the door . |
| 20 | ‘ Each dealer knew well the cattle he 'd brought from the Irish villages . |
| 21 | He reached beneath his robes and pulled free the personal reader he 'd brought from his ship . |
| 22 | The food he had brought from Red Cottage was still down in the car . |
| 23 | A man who had made his name by his own imagination and energy , not in just one skill but three : as choreographer , as deviser of revues and other shows , as director of a company that he had brought from obscure provincial competence to world-wide acclaim . |
| 24 | The small party — Peter Young by now had about half the men he had brought from Maaloy — opened fire on the warehouse , the Colonel having already emptied his revolver in firing at a sniper 's window , and they kept the German from the window long enough for George Herbert to splash a bucket of petrol over the wooden walls . |
| 25 | Lord John did not ride his horse , but rather drove in a gleaming open cabriolet that he had brought from London . |
| 26 | This amiable young man greeted me enthusiastically and informed me that he would be driving me himself , in his motor car which he had brought from Finland . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Dangling from one hand he carried the object he had brought from the corpse-strewn forecourt of the gas station . |