Example sentences of "was brought [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I was brought up on a farm I 'm used to working with my hands and in all weathers . |
| 2 | He tumbled sixty feet before he was brought up with a jolt . |
| 3 | Retiring , should n't have thought you were old enough , Art was brought up with a jolt . |
| 4 | Schnadhorst was brought up as a Nonconformist and as a young man he acted as secretary to the Revd R. W. Dale [ q.v. ] , the pastor of Carr 's Lane Congregational church . |
| 5 | She was brought up as a Nonconformist . |
| 6 | It was in Nazareth that Jesus was brought up as a carpenter 's son . |
| 7 | One woman , helped to ‘ relieve herself , was brought up by a mother who continually told her that , ‘ Big girls do n't cry ’ . |
| 8 | He was brought up by a gaggle of ladies , and the result is that has enormous affection for them . |
| 9 | Henry Lees deserted his family and Florence was brought up by a half-brother , an Oxford don , who sent her to school in London . |
| 10 | From when I was a small boy I was brought up by an aunt . |
| 11 | Their baby daughter was brought up by an aunt , a Mrs Reed of Gateshead . |
| 12 | His father died prematurely and Knott was brought up by an aunt and uncle while attending Arbroath High School ( 1864–71 ) . |
| 13 | Similarly , Daley Thompson , the celebrated Essex Beagles decathlete , was brought up in a home where he was denied parental encouragement for his sport . |
| 14 | I was brought up in a pit village near Bishop Auckland and I never knew my father . |
| 15 | I think with erm , I I was brought up in a household where it was com , completely legitimate to admit to being depressed and that you would just have to cope , I think cope perhaps my most |
| 16 | I was brought up in a generation where there were only two kinds of girls — girls who did and girls who did n't . |
| 17 | No heroes or heroines from TV ever entered my world , for I was brought up in a society that banned television . |
| 18 | He was brought up in a car . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I was brought up in a vicarage myself and know how things are or can be , ’ he said confusedly . |
| 20 | He knows exactly what she means — he was brought up in a street that might have been just round the corner . |
| 21 | Dall was brought up in an engineering environment . |
| 22 | He was brought up in an atmosphere of churchmanship , his revered father being a prominent layman who devoted his life to the reunification of the Anglican with the Roman church , and it was perhaps through him that he acquired what seems to have been an unconscious appreciation of the utility of goodness in public life ; one notes in his writings a tendency to equate prayer with will . |
| 23 | All wiped out in the War and he was brought up in an orphanage . |
| 24 | Stepson of a rabbi and product of a broken home , Laszlo was brought up in an orphanage , and it is clear that from a very early age this intense , obstinate man sought not only to bring order to his own life but to control to an unprecedented degree the environment of his future family . |
| 25 | Official UN reports supported Italian government findings that the plane was brought down by a missile , but responsibility could not be attributed . |
| 26 | The police reacted swiftly and a man who broke through their cordon was brought down by a rugby tackle and arrested . |
| 27 | My problem is with blanketweed which was brought in on a lily plant . |
| 28 | When a German ‘ plane was shot down near Roxton the sergeant navigator who survived was brought in as a patient and I assisted with his reception . |
| 29 | It is a rare example of a Scottish company that went to the edge in the early 1980s ( Lord Tombs of Rolls-Royce was brought in as a company doctor to turn it around ) and emerge stronger on the other side as well as maintaining Scottish roots . |
| 30 | I do n't think Steve Albini was brought in as a statement . |