Example sentences of "[noun pl] brought back " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Buttholes brought back to rock the expanded WAISTLINE , a conspicuously WASTEFUL attitude to sound . |
| 2 | She listened to the stories of small triumphs brought back from the dances . |
| 3 | The Dyaks of Borneo , for instance , have always referred to the orangutan as the " man of the forest " , treating him at least with the dignity accorded to neighbouring tribes , whereas the Europeans , on examining the first Tierra del Fuegans brought back to the West , could not decide whether to classify them as humans or animals . |
| 4 | In the United States a national botanical garden was founded to exploit the seeds and plants brought back by a Pacific exploration expedition under Charles Wilkes in the years 1838–42 . |
| 5 | They anticipated the hellenistic taste for theatre : Dionysius I brought his bride from Italian Lokri in a warship decorated with gold and silver ; Plutarch 's Life of Demetrius has a splendid account of the cortège in which the third-century king Antigonos Gonatas brought back by sea to Macedon the funeral casket of his father Demetrius . |
| 6 | I have known a derelict country house collection rescued with it and have seen ancient college and cathedral libraries brought back to serene life after decades of neglect . |
| 7 | Stories brought back from gynaecological examinations and procedures carried out by male doctors are at best disturbing , at worst horrifying . |
| 8 | Thus the ghastly memories brought back to him by an egg ; or his feeling , so terrible he does not express it , when 20 years after Maidanek his friend Michael has forgotten his name . |
| 9 | One of the most popular things in the garden — especially with children — is the Bear Hut which used to house a black bear cub one of the Acland sons brought back from Canada . |
| 10 | In The Milebrook were assegais and other trophies brought back by my grandfather after he had shattered the Zulu army at Ulundi in 1879 — but I never begrudged those peerless warriors their earlier , annihilating victory over a British force on the slopes of Isandhlwana . |
| 11 | At the commencement of the conversions the vehicles were lifted , and all parts of the underframes and bogies brought back to nominal new as for the standard LMSR coach . |
| 12 | This tooth tusk is thought to be used more for jousting matches than to help in feeding , and narwhal tusks brought back to Europe by early ocean adventurers almost certainly inspired the legends of the one-horned unicorn . |
| 13 | The two cuisines of Louisiana can both be sampled in these recipes brought back from John Folses ' plantation restaurant White Oaks , in Baton Rouge , Louisiana . |
| 14 | Corn was shipped to Newry and Belfast for export to England and vessels up to 60 tons brought back timber , coal and slates . |
| 15 | Some years later , we are told , travellers brought back from Italy an account of the saint 's life , about which nothing had been known previously . |
| 16 | He puts it down at the base of the new li ga — the stripped pine trunk that all the men brought back from the forest and erected early this morning — and pours some water over the lamb 's head and in a stripe down its back to the base of the tail . |
| 17 | The solid bulk of the nation was as dedicated as ever to the war , phlegmatic and unquestioning , turning a closed mind and a deaf ear to the tales men brought back from Verdun , in much the same way as when , to the succeeding generation , rumours began to filter out from the concentration camps . |
| 18 | The son of a wealthy London merchant , Lethieullier was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries ; he knew both William and John Hunter , who in turn must have been aware of his collection of Egyptian antiquities , amongst which were some mummies brought back from Egypt to Aldersbrook by Lethieullier 's cousin , Colonel William Lethieullier . |
| 19 | Does he agree that the most effective action that could be taken to end homelessness would be if Labour-controlled London councils brought back into use the many thousands of empty homes under their control ? |