Example sentences of "he was bring [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tumbled sixty feet before he was brought up with a jolt . |
| 2 | With his sister Norma , who now lives in Newton Aycliffe , he was brought up at the hotel during the Second World War . |
| 3 | He was brought up by a gaggle of ladies , and the result is that has enormous affection for them . |
| 4 | The chances are almost two-to-one that he was brought up in a fatherless household . |
| 5 | In the case of Repton light-middleweight Leon Young , there was no encouraging influence at all as he was brought up in a Dr Barnardo 's home in Barkingside . |
| 6 | He knows exactly what she means — he was brought up in a street that might have been just round the corner . |
| 7 | He was brought up in a rough area of Bradford and he and his mates used to play against the front shop of my old mate and skipper Brian Close . |
| 8 | He was brought up in a car . |
| 9 | Born of humble parents early in the twelfth century , he was brought up in the fenlands round the Wash , and early in life wandered among the shoals and quicksands round the mouth of the Welland in search of wrecks and treasure . |
| 10 | And although he was brought up in the Protestant culture of Scotland 's capital , he is a fervent supporter of Celtic , the club of Roman Catholic persuasion in the hostile territory of Glasgow . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | All wiped out in the War and he was brought up in an orphanage . |
| 13 | He was brought up in an atmosphere of churchmanship , his revered father being a prominent layman who devoted his life to the reunification of the Anglican with the Roman church , and it was perhaps through him that he acquired what seems to have been an unconscious appreciation of the utility of goodness in public life ; one notes in his writings a tendency to equate prayer with will . |
| 14 | The same thing always happened to him at school if he was brought out to the front of the hall for talking in assembly , or if he had to stand in the aisle with his hands on his head for not paying attention in class . |
| 15 | He was brought off before the end of a rare defeat and the emotional scars were apparent for weeks after that . |
| 16 | In 1572 he was brought in by the musician , Alfonso Ferrabosco [ q.v. ] , to design the tournament staged to greet the French embassy in June of that year . |
| 17 | After the year 's training , he was brought back into the company as group finance director . |
| 18 | The head 's face immediately fell , as he was brought back to the tribulations of the moment . |
| 19 | However , he assured her that the fact Putt was conscious when he was brought back to the manor meant he had probably suffered no permanent damage . |