Example sentences of "was brought [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Doyle 's body was brought ashore at the Pier Head on July 7 this year , Det Sgt Cedric Jones told the hearing . |
| 2 | It 's supposed to be the skull of an African boy who was brought here during the slave trade , but I do n't believe it . |
| 3 | What is medically certain is that she died of coronary thrombosis : there is no question of any foul play , except of course if the heart attack was brought on by the shock of finding someone in her room stealing the jewel she had come all the way from America to hand over to the Ashmolean Museum , or more specifically to Dr Theodore Kemp on behalf of the Museum . |
| 4 | But mother-of-two Mrs Spence said her sick leave was brought on by the stress of overwork . |
| 5 | Rob Allen , 41 , is thought to have suffered a heart attack which his wife believes was brought on by the strain of their daughter 's condition . |
| 6 | An alternative explanation is that the figure indicates the existence of an important fertility bull cult at Stamford which was brought over by the Myceneans . |
| 7 | Raoul Walsh was brought over from the US to direct O.H.M.S . |
| 8 | It was interesting the way the film was brought over from the picture . |
| 9 | They had raised themselves but still remained crouched , and were moving slowly by the hedge towards the tree , when once again Martin 's attention was brought round to the strip of woodland , not by a noise this time , but by a strange feeling of impending danger . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the indecent haste with which regulation 64A was brought forward in the recess , and then — it must be unprecedented — replaced by another identical regulation 64A , designed to come into operation immediately the next day , in the middle of the 21-day period that a regulation is supposed to lie on the Table before being implemented shows not only the willingness but the eagerness of Ministers to block or restrict those entitlements . |
| 11 | Well I was brought up on the story . |
| 12 | I 'd like to move with th er , I I think tha wi given wi , though we have n't got all that much time , can we move onto another area that was brought up at the beginning of the programme which was erm the use of animals in recreation and er Lisa particularly mentioned hunting , now , she thinks hunting should be banned , do you ? |
| 13 | Following her sister 's death in early infancy , her parents ' divorce when she was three years old , and her mother 's remarriage , Marguerite was brought up at the Earls Court residence of her mother and her mother 's third husband , Albert Visetti , a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London . |
| 14 | With his sister Norma , who now lives in Newton Aycliffe , he was brought up at the hotel during the Second World War . |
| 15 | On the Gamily Fast Day in October , the children gave up snacks and donated the money save to a collection which was brought up at the offertory at a special mass in school . |
| 16 | Born in 1754 , Murdock was brought up to the trade of his father who was a millwright and miller . |
| 17 | Stewart , who managed England 's Test side for six years and steered them to successive World Cup finals , said : ‘ When I was brought up during the war , serving Queen and country meant a lot to my generation . |
| 18 | I was brought up in the cloister , and have Latin and French as well as English and Welsh . ’ |
| 19 | Born of humble parents early in the twelfth century , he was brought up in the fenlands round the Wash , and early in life wandered among the shoals and quicksands round the mouth of the Welland in search of wrecks and treasure . |
| 20 | And it it was , I mean I was brought up in the country and it , I found it really shocking that people had to live like that , you know . |
| 21 | I was brought up in the country , on a farm you know , so I 'll try and sort of make you know equal amount of flowers in each , and then er it can be halved . |
| 22 | During the war Well while the war as going on nationalization was brought up in the buffets by what we would term now , the activist or militant Labour people . |
| 23 | At first the ideas appeared as rumours and reports : that , although it had not yet been announced , the US had already taken steps to halt the fighting ; that , in Washington , ambassador Bonnet had been called in and told that a settlement was imperative ; that if the matter was brought up in the UN the US would not necessarily support France ; that the US wished to ensure that no Lend-Lease weapons were being used ‘ to suppress Vietnam — although it was suspected they were ; and that the head of Southeast Asian Affairs at the State Department ( Mr A.L. |
| 24 | I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English . |
| 25 | Little water would have been met with and what was encountered was brought up in the kibble . |
| 26 | Six was brought up in the family business but declining trade prompted him to retire early and devote himself to the wide range of interests typical of an eighteenth-century intellectual , although there is no evidence that he ever received any formal training . |
| 27 | well the slight adjustment so to get it , get it right , that 's what you 're paid for and he 's , that 's where he was , that 's where he was brought up in the trade , and he could take a piece of cloth in his hands , he had rolls of cloth , and he said that was made such a way , the quality of this cloth is because and that |
| 28 | As somebody who , as a child , was brought up in the city of York , I have nothing but praise for the excellent way in which my hon. Friend has represented his constituents . |
| 29 | It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation . |
| 30 | I was brought up in the days of the old Police Acts . |