Example sentences of "[noun] brought up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was a speed-freaking northern oik brought up on the afro-d ultra-hip gibberish of pre-senile Charles Shaar Murray , the manic sulphatic babblings of Tony Parsons and my then hero , Julie Burchill . |
| 2 | The big oak table was laid in the hall , and quantities of Portugal wine brought up from the souterrain . |
| 3 | The person brought up in the city who has a natural and instinctive knowledge of the curative properties of herbs and wild flowers ; the person who experiences déjà vu or the one who seems to recognize a ‘ stranger ’ although the two have never met before ; the person born with talents he has not had time to acquire — is it not a possible explanation of the genius of such prodigies as Mozart that he actually brought with him skills and talents he had learnt in a previous lifetime ? |
| 4 | A jug of icy water brought up from the yard was splashed on to her , from as great a height as we could manage . |
| 5 | Community leaders decided to build homes for rent to help young people brought up in the village stay in the area . |
| 6 | The Central North Side as a whole was , by the 1980s , represented by the Central North Side Neighborhood Council ( CNSNC ) but there was evidence of tension between the young people brought up in the area for whom there were slim prospects of employment ( levels of unemployment consistently outstripped the city average ) and householders involved in revitalisation . |
| 7 | Commercially , the ATSR data will allow fishing vessels to ‘ home in ’ on the edges of sea currents where fish congregate to feed on nutrients brought up from the ocean floor . |
| 8 | Andrew Cunningham , who had been fortunate in having been one of the men brought up to the surface to erect a fence round the subsidence , volunteered to go back down into the unknown to search for his missing colleagues . |
| 9 | He had witnessed the girl 's suffering and had analysed the fluid brought up from the stomach — it had all the appearances of urine — colour , taste , smell and consistency . |