Example sentences of "[been] brought [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was discovered as recently as 1983 by Alain le Brun when excavating at the Neolithic settlement of Khirokitia in southern Cyprus and has been found to date from 6000 B.C. The important point about its location is that Cyprus has no wild cats and this means that the animal must have been brought over to the island by the early human settlers . |
| 2 | But if the daily figures had n't yet been brought over from the Ritz and Strand , he would stop off there too . |
| 3 | It was this lack of division that most effectively concealed from Clara the basic , classic structure of the building , for she had been brought up with the notion that walls must be above eye-level , lace curtains impenetrable , bedrooms facing discreetly into the void . |
| 4 | Her parents were killed in an accident when she was very young , and she has been brought up at the château , almost as the daughter of the house . |
| 5 | The problems with most people , if I can generalise , is that they have been brought up on the notion that a picture has to represent something and that to them means something recognizable , like a tree , or a landscape , or a windmill , or an oast house . |
| 6 | I had also been brought up on the story of the man who boasted that his ancestor had lost his leg at Waterloo , to which the response was ‘ Which platform ? ’ |
| 7 | His family background was humble but he had been brought up on the writings of Beatrice and Sidney Webb and the philosophies of George Bernard Shaw . |
| 8 | Certainly Joanne Menzies appeared not to recognize him , although he 'd rather regretted choosing the character of Detective-Sergeant McWhirter of Scotland Yard when she revealed that she 'd been brought up near the Kyles of Bute . |
| 9 | Indeed , having been brought up after the war and having heard of the plight of those poor people , one has never forgotten it in any case . |
| 10 | Below 700m many of the soils are man-made — the soils on the terraces having been brought up from the river mouths or down from the bases of the escarpments . |
| 11 | Yeah , oh yeah I remember it quite well I , I can remember that I , the only parts of Harlow I liked were the country lanes , I did n't like all the new houses , but then I 'd been brought up in the country |
| 12 | Cos quite a g quite a few young people have actually been brought up in the flats , have n't they ? |
| 13 | At the other extreme was a Filipino who had been brought up in the slums of Manila , his father an alcoholic drug dealer and his mother a whore . |
| 14 | She had been brought up in the sophistication of inner Moscow , and she had travelled to European Germany . |
| 15 | If in addition we have been brought up in the tradition that to show feeling is a vulgar and lower-class way of behaving , we will seek to drain it out of any situations in which we are involved . |
| 16 | She wondered how he would be now if he 'd been brought up in the Down Manor Orphanage . |
| 17 | An individual who has been brought up in the abstractions of education and capital , and who is certain of obtaining daily necessities , cultivates a distance from these needs , and affects a taste based in the respect and desire for the abstract , distanced and formal . |
| 18 | Innocent had been brought up within the structure of the Roman Church . |
| 19 | He had been brought on to the board of the Citizens Theatre , Glasgow , by its founder , the playwright James Bridie . |
| 20 | Sara suddenly understood why James might have been brought along for the week-end to Moorlake . |
| 21 | Somewhere , cowbells sounded ; the animals had been brought in for the night , maybe . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ But , if the body had been brought in from the Met area , we would not necessarily have been alerted . ’ |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But if it 's just been brought out of the calf pens , fresh muck when it 's been spreaded in , and you know that tummy muscles , along mucking out the calf pens , they 'd been all the winter on this , getting tighter and harder , all through the winter . |
| 27 | A table which the Collector strongly suspected was his favourite Louis XVI had been brought out of the Residency drawing-room and covered with a clean white cloth to serve as an altar table . |
| 28 | Office workers who on the first day possible in the early year had rushed out in their lunch hour to cover any patch of grass with bare legs and arms , floral patterns and jackets , as if some strange immediate growth had been brought out by the sun , to die back in the early afternoon , had by now got the habit of staying in the dark bowels of buildings when they could . |
| 29 | It was n't likely that anyone would come that way , for the hen crees were situated in the field just beyond the hedge , and the sheep were there too , having been brought down from the hills after ten of their already small stock had been taken . |
| 30 | Xerox 's Documenter , essentially a single 6085 workstation running ViewPoint with a dedicated page printer , has recently been brought back into the fold through the introduction of a low-cost local area network . |