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Example sentences for "been brought"

  • He had himself, as a young man, been brought up to do toilsome manual labour.

  • The instant the armed rebellion had been brought to an end, the rebelling States were to be considered as having resumed their old-time relations with the States of the North and with the central government.

  • He felt that Douglas was a trimmer, and he believed that the issue had now been brought to a point at which the trimmer could not hold support on both sides of Mason and Dixon's Line.

  • The Collection of Bible Pictures contained in this book is probably one of the most complete that has ever been brought together in one volume.

  • For they were accused of having been the ministers of the ferocity of Gallus, and it was believed to be owing to them that Domitian had been torn to pieces, and that Montius and others had been brought to destruction.

  • You see, William, we must have some birds on the island; at least it is most probable, for all the seeds of these plants and trees must have been brought here by them.

  • You see, William, there is no saying what new seeds may have been brought here by birds, or by the winds and waves.

  • She had never really been fond of them: she had never, indeed, been brought much in contact with them.

  • She thinks she is doing her duty, but it has always seemed to me that Honora was one of those children who would better have been brought up on bread and butter and jam.

  • But it is plain that Master Philip has not been brought up to wait on his elders.

  • He told me that Bentley'd been brought up on a big cattle ranch out there, and that now he was boss.

  • When you've been brought up to believe every Englishman wore 'em, it was kind of humiliatin' not to see one single set.

  • He's been brought up that way, and he doesn't know.

  • They've been brought up to it, same as you have to the coat.

  • Muley," his master said, "I have bought this Christian who has been brought in by Hassan the corsair.

  • I searched for some time, and then guessing that you had been brought home by Scopus, I went back to the child, who is sorely ill.

  • She was the life and soul of the little band, and the Britons adored her; but Beric remembered that she had been brought up in comfort and luxury, and longed to give her similar surroundings.

  • The Britons halted half a mile away, fires were lighted, and the men sat down to feast upon the meat that had been brought in wagons from Camalodunum.

  • I think I even got a sort of joy out of defying all I'd been brought up to believe was moral and right and lady-like.

  • If I'd been brought up brave and independent, instead of to be a cowardly dependent-- Oh, the crime of it!

  • Indeed, it must even be admitted that the way Margaret had been brought up would make it hard for her, with her sensitive, delicate nerves, to bear with him if she really knew him.

  • She's amazing, considering the sickly, sycophantic atmosphere she's been brought up in.

  • That I'd been brought up by a gambler in an oil-boom town?

  • I told you I suspected she'd been brought up here, and I've verified it.

  • They had used shells of every sort, and I saw many evidences of the havoc and death that had been brought about on innocent people.

  • They were just peasants who had been brought up to do the work.

  • But before her time has Eurydice been brought here.

  • Polydectes, the king, was seldom spoken to about his brother, and it was years before he knew of the mother and child who had been brought to live in Dictys's hut.

  • He dashed down the cup that had been brought to the table, and he shook all over with the thought of how near he had been to a terrible crime.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about his; been able; been done; been employed; been established; been killed; been laid; been more; been otherwise; been placed; been removed; been seen; been sent; been shot; been taken; been talkin; been talking; been telling; been wanting; been written; cold winters; must show; pour vous; sweet sister; teach the; wild goats