Example sentences of "[was/were] bring up in [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their six children were brought up in Thornaby . |
| 2 | ‘ If you were brought up in Brixton or Hackney , and have been stopped regularly for no reason by the police , you are bound to view them with a bit of hatred ’ … . |
| 3 | So you were brought up in Nottingham were you ? |
| 4 | By the time he was nine both parents had died , and Trevor and his sister were brought up in Wisbech by their maternal grandparents . |
| 5 | Richard was brought up in France at his mother 's court at Poitou . |
| 6 | She was brought up in France just before the Second World War , but as an adolescent she was sent to spend a year with relatives in Germany where she was forced to remain when fighting broke out . |
| 7 | I am , I was born in Essex , in in hospital and my family all come from Essex , and I was brought up in Upminster and I was very fortunate in that I was born into a christian home and I had christian parents and christian grandparents and christian aunts and uncles and I went to church from the time I was about two or three weeks old . |
| 8 | Harris , who was brought up in Wareham , Dorset , returned to the UK in April to speak at Amnesty 's AGM , and to a conference organised by the London School of Economics . |
| 9 | He was brought up in Victoria Road , Grangetown . |
| 10 | Jaye was brought up in Hertfordshire and did n't have a happy time of it . |
| 11 | Naipaul was brought up in Trinidad but as a young man settled in England where he has been based ever since . |
| 12 | Prosecuting John Burke , QC , said Abram was brought up in Aspull and , after moving to Scholes , still visited his parents in Cross Street . |
| 13 | I I was brought up in Oxford . |
| 14 | Beatrix died in 1275 and Jean was brought up in England , apparently in Edward 's household . |
| 15 | I was brought up in Albert Street near the Hibs ground , my whole family came from that area , my dad used to sneak into the ground at night to play football on the grass at Easter Road , and I got sent off in my own backyard . |
| 16 | As a child he was brought up in Kent . |
| 17 | I was brought up in Gilmer , Texas , as a fundamentalist Mormon . |
| 18 | Mr Stewart , who is student assistant in First Comber Church , was brought up in Fannet congregation , Co Donegal and was an Irish mission worker for three years . |
| 19 | I was aware that I was attracted to boys and men from about the age of twelve or fourteen , but although I was brought up in London I still did n't find it very easy to have any sort of contact with other gay men . |
| 20 | The singer was brought up in London , but two years in Leeds and five in the North West have given him an oddball Midlands-tinged accent . |
| 21 | Although Monica was brought up in London , she has always been a country girl at heart . |
| 22 | David 's family were Welsh but he was brought up in London . |
| 23 | Smith was brought up in Newark in Nottinghamshire and he left his home town to study mathematics at Leeds University . |
| 24 | Because his mother died from peritonitis when he was only six weeks old , Keyes was brought up in Dartford by his paternal grandparents , and his grandfather , Sidney Kilworth Keyes , a wealthy farmer , dominated his childhood . |
| 25 | She was brought up in Speke by her grandparents at their home in Dymchurch Road . |
| 26 | Rachel was brought up in Speke by her grandparents at their home in Dymchurch Road . |
| 27 | Cath trained as a nurse and was brought up in Lenzie . |
| 28 | He was brought up in South Africa , and at the age of six had a serious accident which confined him to bed for three years . |
| 29 | When Sorley was five his father was appointed Knightbridge professor of moral philosophy at Cambridge University and elected a fellow of King 's College , and from then on Sorley was brought up in Cambridge , where until he was nine he was taught at home by his mother . |
| 30 | ‘ No , I was brought up in Berkhamsted and I spent a couple of years living in Oxfordshire not so long ago , so I 'm not completely inflexible about this . |