Example sentences of "had been bring [adv] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them were professional or business men but a high proportion had been brought up on a croft . |
| 2 | But she understood , because she had been brought up on a farm . |
| 3 | Tamar had been brought up on a tenanted farm and was sensitive to the diffidence felt when an approach to the landowner was necessary . |
| 4 | His writings were later able to save a model child , the philosopher John Stuart Mill , who had been brought up on a system of intensive reading and deprived of the ‘ culture of the feelings ’ . |
| 5 | The hay had been brought up on a wain in front of which two of the farm horses stood , blowing plumes of steamy breath . |
| 6 | It was the first time in Israel 's 41-year history that a government had been brought down on a vote of confidence . |