1.   Balor had unbuttoned his jerkin and brushed the crumbs from his front and was preparing to take a snooze.

2.   He had brushed the crumbs from his desk top into his wastebasket.

3.   I brushed the crumbs off the sofa.

4.   She stood up and brushed some crumbs off her uniform.

5.   She stood up to brush the crumbs off her uniform.

6.   The historian brushed crumbs from the tablecloth.

7.   Ella brushed the crumbs off her jacket.

8.   I stood up, brushing crumbs from my trousers.

9.   At home, the night before Passover, children brush bread crumbs from the windowsills with feathers by candlelight.