Example sentences of "[adj] children bring [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 Some children brought up in institutions are so damaged by these experiences that they can not live in a family where they have to respond to others ' feelings and may escape into work in an institutional setting .
2 ‘ Her first husband , Hayley 's father , walked out on her some years ago , leaving her with three children to bring up .
3 Only among the poor , the retainers who had accompanied their masters and later fallen from favour , or among the half-caste children brought up by superstitious mothers true to their old faith , did the little goddess of love and war retain a true following .
4 Somewhere in her thirties , long abandoned by a useless husband , and with two small children to bring up , she was not given to self-analysis .
5 He left me struggling with 4,000 owing on loans — and two children to bring up .
6 Unfortunately my father was killed in the first war , nineteen seventeen January , and my mother was left with four children to bring up .
7 A full turnout of altar servers assisted , young children brought up gifts and their drawing at the offertory , all the Special Ministers came first to receive Holy Communion , and after Mass people gathered to greet the Bishop and share wine and refreshments in the parish house .
8 On the reduced T V licence fees well I think we all recognize that everybody who 's unemployed is n't living in the lap of luxury drinking ten double whiskies a day hitting the racecourses with a top hat and tail on the only pleasure , especially people who 've got young children to bring up is the television and such is the price of the licence nowadays that in order to sustain that other things in the family are going short .
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