Example sentences of "bring [prep] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they had recovered they hurriedly cooked and ate the ration of cold rice they had brought with them from the barracks and swallowed a mouthful or two of water . |
| 2 | She was busy at the tap over in the far corner of the cemetery , filling the empty bottle she had brought with her from the house . |
| 3 | But ‘ it was evidently all she owned ; it was the home she had brought with her from the Fatherland , and would be the home she would set up on the prairie ’ . |
| 4 | Immediately the anger and irritation he had brought with him from the house erupted in a howl of anger . |
| 5 | But for many stall-fed cattle and pigs the crops are brought to them from the fields . |
| 6 | The first generation might practise some " levelling " — an adaptation and " evening-out " of any highly marked regionalisms in their speech — but would basically stick to the linguistic habits they brought with them from the Caribbean . |
| 7 | For as the people became urbanised , the ancient ways and practices they brought with them from the countryside or the pre-industrial town became irrelevant or impracticable . |