Example sentences of "[noun] bring up " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Norman Towers — Entering through these it is easy to imagine the Knights of the Middle Ages setting off for battle , banners flying and a host of bowmen and falconers bringing up the rear . |
| 2 | Over half the men around him spent the crossing bringing up what little food they had eaten for breakfast . |
| 3 | I remember being with him when a drunken drug addict , brought to his door by Sgt. Hendry , broke away and lunged at Chief Fyvie bringing up his hand-cuffed wrists to strike the chief in the face . |
| 4 | The line of boys and masters — Hasan and Rafiq bringing up the rear — made its way through pools of water and patches of sodden black earth , across the cinder track leading up towards the Windmill , and to the chestnut-trees , now almost empty of leaves , that shadow the edge of parkside . |
| 5 | Earlier on you were talking about erm the dredger bringing up fish or you your father |
| 6 | I was a speed-freaking northern oik brought up on the afro-d ultra-hip gibberish of pre-senile Charles Shaar Murray , the manic sulphatic babblings of Tony Parsons and my then hero , Julie Burchill . |
| 7 | And in one experiment rats were exposed throughout infancy to the music of either Mozart or Schoenberg and then given musical preference tests in adulthood ( with the result that animals brought up on Mozart showed a definite preference for that music , whereas the Schoenberg-reared group gave no indication of a hankering after the familiar music ! ) . |
| 8 | Members and supporters brought up in the pre-1968 glory days are mostly content to support the White Rose despite their lack of success . |
| 9 | Usually he ate with the others in the hall in the evenings , but this night he asked Isay to see Colban and have a tray brought up , and some hot water . |
| 10 | ‘ For kids brought up on rock , Sinatra is torture . |
| 11 | Shoulders brought up head forced down |
| 12 | Merchants came next , men and women , then a prostitute ; a beggar brought up the rear , these allegorical figures representing the inescapable gradations of decay . |
| 13 | It was one your uncle David brought up for me so that I could get take it to pieces to make the car we 'd got better . |
| 14 | But Richard brought up siege machines and began to bombard the walls , concentrating on the fourth side where a small town nestled at the foot of the citadel . |
| 15 | " I would like some tea brought up , Gerard . " |
| 16 | The drawback here is precisely the one which my careers adviser brought up . |
| 17 | You can tell him I was pointing it out to you , should he have the bad manners to bring up the incident . ’ |
| 18 | Ranald , tell Ruari to bring up sixty pounds of wax for black candles , and for the cerecloth . |
| 19 | It reminded her too much of her father 's years of toil to bring up his family . |
| 20 | But suddenly , he could n't be bothered to argue any further , and went back to watching the boxing , storing the argument away carefully in his mind to bring up against her another time . |
| 21 | Press the ? key to bring up the help file for a currently selected menu option . |
| 22 | ‘ David brings up situations that happened five years ago and still writes about them . |
| 23 | In one case — IBM 's AIX versions 3.1 and 3.2 — sar enquires of cache performance data brings up only a screenful of headings with no data — a problem IBM is said to be ‘ aware of ’ . |
| 24 | He doubted if these boys had been playing soccer — Hurstdown 's sporting young gentlemen would surely scorn such a plebeian game — and , sure enough , the boy bringing up the rear , older and taller than the rest and evidently in charge , was clutching a rugby ball to his chest . |
| 25 | They found that when women spent time out of paid work bringing up their children they were placed at a disadvantage on the labour market . |
| 26 | Only Forster and Silk followed , Lawton staying to assist Nell bring up the extra combat kit that they would now recover from the assault boat . |
| 27 | The two rigs bringing up the rear , swung round in a complete circle , and reversed to sit side by side some thirty yards from the front door . |
| 28 | Her topic was jealousy which she attributed to parents bringing up children to think they are unlovable . |
| 29 | Kellmer Pringle believes that we go too far in asserting that the way parents bring up their children is solely their own concern . |
| 30 | But because parents bring up girls in a different way to boys in most cultures , women experience life quite differently and so bring a uniquely female perspective to many issues of local as well as global importance . |