Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] up in the " in BNC.
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1 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | As a male Caucasian with a father who had died of a coronary thrombosis at the age of 59 , I was brought up in the smoky atmosphere of a northern industrial town . |
5 | Like most people , I was brought up in the belief that a nightmare was something bad that happened while you were asleep . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | ‘ I was brought up in the countryside . |
9 | I was brought up in the cloister , and have Latin and French as well as English and Welsh . ’ |
10 | I was brought up in the days of the old Police Acts . |
11 | I was caught up in the Truby King Mothercraft doctrine of 1935 … |
12 | I was woken up in the night sometimes , the spare bed in my room being made up for someone they 'd met down the Club , the other lodger 's room already occupied . |