Example sentences of "[was/were] bring up in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Because the slave traders were brought up in the belief that every word of the Holy Bible was inspired by God , they honestly thought that they had divine sanction to enslave blacks . |
2 | I was brought up in the cloister , and have Latin and French as well as English and Welsh . ’ |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Little water would have been met with and what was encountered was brought up in the kibble . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | well the slight adjustment so to get it , get it right , that 's what you 're paid for and he 's , that 's where he was , that 's where he was brought up in the trade , and he could take a piece of cloth in his hands , he had rolls of cloth , and he said that was made such a way , the quality of this cloth is because and that |
9 | As somebody who , as a child , was brought up in the city of York , I have nothing but praise for the excellent way in which my hon. Friend has represented his constituents . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Like most people , I was brought up in the belief that a nightmare was something bad that happened while you were asleep . |
12 | Neeld 's daughter by his French mistress was brought up in the house . |
13 | A widow , now in her eighties , her husband was brought up in the house by his grandparents . |
14 | ‘ I was brought up in the countryside . |