Example sentences of "bring [adv prt] from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At times my sleepy little daughter was brought down from the nursery and stood on a stool while John draped pieces of material on her and showed me how he wanted the costume move and flow , and so help to illustrate what he wanted to express and convey to an audience . |
| 2 | Customers tend to use the product either as a report generator for existing , often highly complex databases brought down from the mainframe , or as a tool for the complete re-engineering of their applications , including prototyping . |
| 3 | In part he is swayed by fear of his fate at the hands of the enraged seamen : in part he is driven by an awakening of conscience as painful as the circulation returning to the frozen body of Thomas Fox when he is brought down from the masthead . |
| 4 | Peter picked up the exercise book and slipped it into the box he had brought down from the loft . |
| 5 | The cigarette , tip turned in towards the palm , is brought down from the mouth in an exaggerated arc and held behind the back . |
| 6 | But when he comes to the foot of the mountain and sees the worship of the calf for himself , we hear the sound of his anger too , and see him smashing the tablets of stone that he has brought down from the summit inscribed with God 's torah . |
| 7 | An enormous tin trunk was brought down from the attic , and systematically packed with everything needed for a month 's holiday . |
| 8 | Try to plan to seat at least six comfortably , and also have some really occasional chairs that can be stashed away in a cupboard somewhere or brought in from the hall or a bedroom . |
| 9 | ‘ — a high quality of legal advice , experience and competence in conducting and managing cases of this sort ; — the greater likelihood that all potential plaintiffs would be brought in from the outset , assisting the conduct of the case and giving greater certainty to defendants ; — the co-ordinated organisation of claims , research , expert opinions and pre-trial procedures . ’ |
| 10 | The profit per tonne in Aegina is falling , because trimming the trees and picking the nuts is a laborious business that modern workers can insist on being paid more for , and much of the water the trees need has to be brought in from the mainland . |
| 11 | Tory Peter Jones said it was time South Africa was brought in from the cold . |
| 12 | These right-angled bends in the road , whatever the date of the enclosure award may be , reflect some stage in the medieval colonisation of the parish when a new furlong , brought in from the waste perhaps in the twelfth or the thirteenth century , cut across the direct path to the next village and forced it to make a sudden turn for a few yards before resuming its onward course . |
| 13 | ‘ But , if the body had been brought in from the Met area , we would not necessarily have been alerted . ’ |
| 14 | If the bulge wind is in a steady state and is fed by inflow driven by the bar , the mass flowing into the central parsec is small compared with what is brought in from the disk . |
| 15 | ‘ Both were brought in from the garden — home grown — and never left the kitchen until Cook gave them to Edith for the table . |
| 16 | Trim back fuchsias brought in from the garden and pot them up in a peat and sand mixture . |
| 17 | It was the kind of sound that made you think of the noise lambs probably make when they can smell the mint being brought in from the garden . |
| 18 | At Grassington the miners worked in small setts , or meers , and there were regular disputes over boundaries and underground trespass despite the presence of a Barmoot Court and Barmaster , and other customs anciently brought in from the lead districts of Derbyshire . |
| 19 | There 's a couple more to be brought in from the pack on the horse . |
| 20 | Even so the sum of money Minton had donated was so large that drinkers had to be brought in from the street . |
| 21 | Another frequent problem is that brood mares are often brought in from the paddock about a month before the horse is due to foal , and are put in a little paddock next to the owner 's house so that ‘ an eye can be kept on her . ’ |
| 22 | On either side of the gangway doors were small doors on the floor level ; these were for the double purpose of allowing a hosepipe to be brought through from the line for washing out purposes , and also to allow free escape of water . |
| 23 | Sometimes the pastor found himself speaking to an empty church ; sometimes to a church filled with schoolchildren ; sometimes to a congregation supplemented by the relatives of islanders brought over from the mainland , and other tourists . |
| 24 | But not in the lake ; the lake water itself was caustic , and all our water had to be brought over from the mainland . |
| 25 | According to the report Kuomintang troops brought over from the mainland massacred between 18,000 and 28,000 people following what was deemed to be a Communist-inspired rebellion which began on Feb. 28 , 1947 . |
| 26 | By the end of April 1921 , the work was finished and they began to furnish the upstairs flat , mainly with items brought over from the house at Poplar , and to stock the shop with cameras , films and processing equipment . |
| 27 | In spite of their weariness and thirst they declined to drink the water which the Europeans had been using and which was stored in half a dozen hip-baths brought over from the Residency a week earlier ( only one of which still contained any water ) . |
| 28 | Ready-made trees , specially brought over from the Continent , provided an instantly acceptable environment . |
| 29 | It was interesting the way the film was brought over from the picture . |
| 30 | Commercially , the ATSR data will allow fishing vessels to ‘ home in ’ on the edges of sea currents where fish congregate to feed on nutrients brought up from the ocean floor . |