Example sentences of "[was/were] bring up in [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were brought up in court and I think that influenced his decision . |
| 2 | ‘ If you were brought up in Brixton or Hackney , and have been stopped regularly for no reason by the police , you are bound to view them with a bit of hatred ’ … . |
| 3 | I am , I was born in Essex , in in hospital and my family all come from Essex , and I was brought up in Upminster and I was very fortunate in that I was born into a christian home and I had christian parents and christian grandparents and christian aunts and uncles and I went to church from the time I was about two or three weeks old . |
| 4 | Jaye was brought up in Hertfordshire and did n't have a happy time of it . |
| 5 | Naipaul was brought up in Trinidad but as a young man settled in England where he has been based ever since . |
| 6 | Prosecuting John Burke , QC , said Abram was brought up in Aspull and , after moving to Scholes , still visited his parents in Cross Street . |
| 7 | ‘ No , I was brought up in Berkhamsted and I spent a couple of years living in Oxfordshire not so long ago , so I 'm not completely inflexible about this . |
| 8 | The most successful writer who had lived in an English colony was Aphra Behn , who was brought up in Surinam before it was transferred to the Dutch in 1668 , and her most important novel of American life , Oronooko , was so completely sympathetic to the Indian hero that it should be considered as an early contribution to the cult of the noble savage rather than a book which could help its English readers understand the wider world . |