Example sentences of "[vb past] been brought in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gift was by way of an invitation for the Prince and Princess both to become patrons of the appeal ; it was the idea of professional fund-raiser Marion Allford , who had been brought in as the appeal director . |
| 2 | Somewhere , cowbells sounded ; the animals had been brought in for the night , maybe . |
| 3 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 4 | He had been brought in by the conglomerate owners , Reed International , who were planning to float the Mirror Group off as a separate company and wanted someone to mastermind the move . |
| 5 | The shop had recently been taken over and the existing stock had been brought in by the previous owner . |
| 6 | ‘ But , if the body had been brought in from the Met area , we would not necessarily have been alerted . ’ |