Example sentences of "brought up [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was brought up to obey orders . |
| 2 | Pesci comes from working-class American Italian stock and was brought up to take knocks . |
| 3 | Little girls may be brought up to see power as something exercised mainly by the men in the family , and not a quality that is sought or used much by women . |
| 4 | How am I and the family I have brought up to love Punch going to survive ? |
| 5 | Anyway I said to our Pam well you have been brought up to do things like that and not only that if I found a pound on the floor I 'd pick it up that 's different . |
| 6 | Most women had been brought up to do sewing and dressmaking : it was no accident , nor was it a question of " natural aptitude " that a teenage girl entering the composing-room was likely to be more dexterous at first than a boy , and to apply both the physical and mental habits acquired in sewing to the job in hand . |
| 7 | The environment in which Bangladeshi babies in Cardiff are brought up has similarities with that of Hong Kong , both being richer in sensory experiences than that experienced by Welsh babies . |
| 8 | Most of us were brought up to accept discipline , and to discipline ourselves . |
| 9 | In fact , I 'd been brought up to regard failure at anything as the ultimate sin . |
| 10 | Engineer Officers , or at least the more recently joined ones , were brought up to consider metal the thing and sometimes had no patience with wood . |