Example sentences of "[pron] was bring up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As I was brought up on a farm I 'm used to working with my hands and in all weathers . |
| 3 | Well I was brought up on the story . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I was brought up as an extreme Conservative with strong Imperialistic ideas , ’ he told his interrogators in 1945 . |
| 6 | My mother died when I was fifteen , but I was brought up by a series of incompetent governesses and I saw little of either parent . |
| 7 | From when I was a small boy I was brought up by an aunt . |
| 8 | I was brought up in a generation where there were only two kinds of girls — girls who did and girls who did n't . |
| 9 | I was brought up in a hard school , Mrs Willow , and I do n't forget it . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | I was brought up in a pit village near Bishop Auckland and I never knew my father . |
| 12 | But I was brought up in a Catholic Home you see . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I was brought up in a vicarage myself and know how things are or can be , ’ he said confusedly . |
| 14 | No heroes or heroines from TV ever entered my world , for I was brought up in a society that banned television . |
| 15 | I was brought up in a different era where you had to entertain yourself . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Like most people , I was brought up in the belief that a nightmare was something bad that happened while you were asleep . |
| 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 | ‘ I was brought up in the countryside . |
| 23 | I was brought up in the cloister , and have Latin and French as well as English and Welsh . ’ |
| 24 | I was brought up in the days of the old Police Acts . |
| 25 | I was brought up before the era of sex education and I managed to get by . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She was brought up as a Nonconformist . |
| 28 | She was brought up in the colonial culture of India and married to a senior military figure . |
| 29 | He tumbled sixty feet before he was brought up with a jolt . |
| 30 | With his sister Norma , who now lives in Newton Aycliffe , he was brought up at the hotel during the Second World War . |