Example sentences of "i [be] brought [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
2 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Well I was brought up on the story . |
5 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | As a male Caucasian with a father who had died of a coronary thrombosis at the age of 59 , I was brought up in the smoky atmosphere of a northern industrial town . |
9 | Like most people , I was brought up in the belief that a nightmare was something bad that happened while you were asleep . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | ‘ I was brought up in the countryside . |
13 | I was brought up in the cloister , and have Latin and French as well as English and Welsh . ’ |
14 | I was brought up in the days of the old Police Acts . |
15 | I was brought up before the era of sex education and I managed to get by . |
16 | I was brought back to the mundane present by the shiver of chill that ran over me . |