Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [pers pn] have brought " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm Sadly it wo n't be with the same riders we had last year , but the riders we 've brought in I 'm sure will erm , under the forty points erm give us a good team . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The advantages of using your own transport or having electricity available at the flick of a switch are obvious , but are the benefits of the chemical industry really recognised , or do we take for granted the improvements it has brought to our life-style ? |
| 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 | Few things are more poignant than a holiday romance , and we 're very happy to say that over the years we 've brought more than a few couples together who are now living happily every after . |
| 6 | He flattered himself that he was in some small part responsible for such blissful bizarrities , given that over the years he 'd brought all manner of influences through from the Succulent Rock . |
| 7 | As it was , the week he spent on Mrs Goreng 's tour confirmed him in the ideas he had brought with him . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Once the novelty 's worn off , everywhere 's just like home , ’ she said , remembering the brief , pure joy of strange hotel rooms , which gradually became familiar as you unpacked the things you 'd brought with you and acquired the kind of things you were wont to acquire , so that very soon you recognized yourself in your surroundings and understood that there was no escape . |
| 10 | ‘ Each dealer knew well the cattle he 'd brought from the Irish villages . |
| 11 | My life lay away from them now , and the problems I had brought to work with me that morning reclaimed me with redoubled urgency . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A couple of henna-headed teenage fans are sitting with their backs to the outside wall of the club , and they remain cool when the coach arrives , politely asking everyone to sign the singles they 've brought along . |
| 14 | The irony of the situation hit her as she began preparing a meal from the provisions she 'd brought with her . |
| 15 | Eva already had the uniforms she had brought with her for the youth congress . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ There has been a lot of talk about the players we have brought in . |
| 20 | The biggest problem is gold miners , and the diseases they have brought with them — malaria and TB are still causing high death rates ( between January and August this year one Yanomami died every two to five days from disease ) . |
| 21 | The helicopter pilot appeared , then flew off , taking with him the photos I had brought to aid identification . |
| 22 | She worked with one photographer , some of the shots he had brought back spectacular , and he was waiting for her as she walked into the office . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I had arranged myself ( while she arranged the flowers I 'd brought ) with my back nearly to the light . |
| 25 | He watched her go alone , the trappings she had brought down to the beach left abandoned . |
| 26 | The Emperor was in residence at his summer palace , a complex of lakes , pavilions and mansions , 7 miles outside Peking , and soon after his arrival Garvine was brought before the throne and questioned about the medicines he had brought . |
| 27 | It was really too cold for the clothes I had brought , so I fell back on a recommended resource . |
| 28 | The N.C. O. handed over the papers he had brought and after clicking his heels and saluting went back into the station without looking at me . |
| 29 | Theda stood appalled , all her defiance collapsing as she realised the consequences she had brought down upon herself . |
| 30 | He bought them literally by the armful , and read as many as three in a day , picked up at random from the piles he had brought home ; yet afterwards he could tell of what he had read , so beautifully , according to Reid , that the book itself would be a disappointment by comparison . |