Example sentences of "i was brought [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ 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 . |
2 | Leucanthemella serotina is what I was brought up to call Chrysanthemum ulginosum , the so-called moon daisy of Hungary , where it is often found growing in damp places . |
3 | The next generation which is taking over the reins of industry is a generation who were not brought up in the same milieu that I was brought up in . |
4 | ‘ I was brought up as one , ’ Frau Nordern said , ‘ but after 1945 … a God who would allow that to happen … that 's what I mean about Omi 's honour . |
5 | I was brought up in Gilmer , Texas , as a fundamentalist Mormon . |
6 | I can not think what came over me as I was brought up chapel like you but unfortunately my father was a miner and not a grocer . |
7 | I think it 's only due to the way I was brought up by my mum that I did n't grow up with this real block , thinking it 's great to be white . |
8 | I was brought up to be a butcher , ’ the man replied , looking me cordially in the eye . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | I was brought up in Albert Street near the Hibs ground , my whole family came from that area , my dad used to sneak into the ground at night to play football on the grass at Easter Road , and I got sent off in my own backyard . |
11 | That 's what I was brought up to believe . |
12 | I was brought up to believe in niceness the way other people believe in God . |
13 | I was brought up before the era of sex education and I managed to get by . |
14 | ‘ I was brought up in Nigeria , ’ he explained to the court , ‘ and when the consequences of the drought became obvious I decided to put the national interest first and perform the n'dula , a naked rain dance , on the village green . |
15 | I was brought up in liberal Anglicanism and lapsed into unbelief and active opposition before being converted in an evangelical Anglican church at the age of twenty-four . |
16 | ‘ Well , Wales has its Max Boyces , Tom Jones , Shirley Basseys and Shakin' Stevens , but there are n't many singers who actually sing about the country , and the funny thing is that it 's taken me about thirty years to start writing about where I was brought up . |
17 | I was brought up perfectly ordinarily in the Church of England but when I was sixteen or seventeen my reason naturally rejected such nonsense . |
18 | It 's getting like that in Manchester — I was brought up not to stare but they stare at you , these workmen . |
19 | He had been interested in tramps since childhood — ' I love a public road' ; he had read Crabbe 's description of a workhouse at school and had been shocked by the confinement of the mentally ill ‘ inasmuch as idiots and lunatics among the humbler classes of society were not to be found in Workhouses — in the parts of the North where I was brought up , — but were mostly at large ’ . |
20 | I was brought up to work hard for my country . |
21 | ‘ I was brought up to respect the police but there does not seem to be the respect any more . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | I was brought up by my maternal grandmother . ’ |
24 | It 's so much easier to fall back on ‘ That 's the way things are done ’ or ‘ It 's the way I was brought up . ’ |
25 | Even the awareness that I had a choice was of course a product of the way that I was brought up . |
26 | I was aware that I was attracted to boys and men from about the age of twelve or fourteen , but although I was brought up in London I still did n't find it very easy to have any sort of contact with other gay men . |
27 | I was brought up in a generation where there were only two kinds of girls — girls who did and girls who did n't . |
28 | As I was brought up on a farm I 'm used to working with my hands and in all weathers . |
29 | ‘ Well , I was brought up in that orphanage in Dalston , and that 's what they called me there . |
30 | I was brought up here . |