Example sentences of "be [adv] brought up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | History can never be fully brought up to date ! |
| 2 | There is coal in Kintyre and large pieces are sometimes brought up by fishing boats working locally , so perhaps the old people who say that coal was mined at Daill and used by a local blacksmith in the First World War are correct , although no trace of workings has been found . |
| 3 | Nobody explained to me what this meant , and because she had a hard and heavy hand , which she used freely on her husband as well as me , I supposed that Joe and I were both brought up by hand . |
| 4 | The suspects were then brought up by number , a single man at a time ( and as I heard them begin with ‘ one ’ , the skin of my neck tightened in anticipation of gunfire which never came ) . |
| 5 | It would make things far worse for him when he was eventually brought up for trial . |
| 6 | They three boys — and Sara — was all brought up at Trebyan and they was all at the village school . |
| 7 | I was always brought up to treat everybody as I find them . |
| 8 | Worsley was probably brought up in London . |
| 9 | He lost his mother as a young boy , and was partly brought up by relatives . |