Example sentences of "brought up [prep] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Commercially , the ATSR data will allow fishing vessels to ‘ home in ’ on the edges of sea currents where fish congregate to feed on nutrients brought up from the ocean floor . |
| 4 | Like Karim , Hanif Kureishi was born of a Pakistani father and an English mother and brought up in the London borough of Bromley . |
| 5 | Frank was brought up in the Hollywood studio tradition and expected producers to exert a large amount of control , but Lester 's lack of freedom did not stop him changing parts of the script — including all of Gawford 's scenes — and reducing the number of songs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She wondered how he would be now if he 'd been brought up in the Down Manor Orphanage . |
| 8 | He may have been a Londoner , brought up in the Newcastle coal trade . |
| 9 | The inquest heard how Mr Ryder was born and brought up in the Huyton area of Liverpool . |
| 10 | A further complication arose from the fact that Kingsley 's natural mother was a Roman Catholic who objected to the prospect of her son being brought up by the Russ family , who were Mormons . |