Example sentences of "brought [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Peter picked up the exercise book and slipped it into the box he had brought down from the loft . |
| 6 | The cigarette , tip turned in towards the palm , is brought down from the mouth in an exaggerated arc and held behind the back . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | An enormous tin trunk was brought down from the attic , and systematically packed with everything needed for a month 's holiday . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ — 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Silver , lead , copper , iron and mercury were the most important metals which were brought in from the mines some of which were owned by Ragusan merchants — in Bosnia , Serbia and Kosovo . |
| 12 | Commodities which travelled in the opposite direction were salt , which came by sea from Cyprus , the Greek islands and Albania , and which was distributed by means of pack animals to Bosnia and Serbia ; and cereals brought in from the Aegean , Cyprus , Asia Minor and Sicily , and used mainly for local consumption . |
| 13 | The curator-in-chief in charge of sculpture , Jean-René Gaborit , asked that the courtyards of the Richelieu wing be covered so that his department might at last have the space to show pieces from stores and also sculptures brought in from the Tuileries gardens and elsewhere , many of them suffering from atmospheric pollution . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A substantial part of this firewood is brought in from the villages to be sold in the cities , although nobody really knows how much . |
| 16 | Tory Peter Jones said it was time South Africa was brought in from the cold . |
| 17 | In 1988 Mr Kevin Gavaghan was brought in from the Burton Group , a British clothes retailer , to be the bank 's marketing director . |
| 18 | The fire by which we sat , Mrs Browning in front , I to one side , consisted mainly of a branch of beech which she had brought in from the woods : the thick end was in the fireplace , surrounded by burning twigs cosseted into flame by Mrs Browning , who puffed upon them with a pair of leather bellows when they faltered , and the other end , in shape and size rather like the antlers of a deer , reached out into the room . |
| 19 | Garlands of flowers and greenery have always been traditionally associated with May festivities , being used to decorate the trees brought in from the woods . |
| 20 | Sheep were few , cows were kept only in small herds possibly of no more than six for dairy use , mostly of mixed breeds and the horses were brought in from the Midlands . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ But , if the body had been brought in from the Met area , we would not necessarily have been alerted . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Both were brought in from the garden — home grown — and never left the kitchen until Cook gave them to Edith for the table . |
| 25 | Trim back fuchsias brought in from the garden and pot them up in a peat and sand mixture . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There 's a couple more to be brought in from the pack on the horse . |
| 29 | Even so the sum of money Minton had donated was so large that drinkers had to be brought in from the street . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |