Example sentences of "[was/were] brought up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in this hundred , and I think most people here are at least over sixteen , ninety one of the women here were brought up by a mother and a father and only er , nine by one parent . |
| 2 | You were brought up in a hotbed of superstition and anarchy : you ca n't help it but it 's hopeless . ’ |
| 3 | As I was brought up on a farm I 'm used to working with my hands and in all weathers . |
| 4 | He tumbled sixty feet before he was brought up with a jolt . |
| 5 | Retiring , should n't have thought you were old enough , Art was brought up with a jolt . |
| 6 | Schnadhorst was brought up as a Nonconformist and as a young man he acted as secretary to the Revd R. W. Dale [ q.v. ] , the pastor of Carr 's Lane Congregational church . |
| 7 | She was brought up as a Nonconformist . |
| 8 | It was in Nazareth that Jesus was brought up as a carpenter 's son . |
| 9 | My mother died when I was fifteen , but I was brought up by a series of incompetent governesses and I saw little of either parent . |
| 10 | One woman , helped to ‘ relieve herself , was brought up by a mother who continually told her that , ‘ Big girls do n't cry ’ . |
| 11 | He was brought up by a gaggle of ladies , and the result is that has enormous affection for them . |
| 12 | Henry Lees deserted his family and Florence was brought up by a half-brother , an Oxford don , who sent her to school in London . |
| 13 | Similarly , Daley Thompson , the celebrated Essex Beagles decathlete , was brought up in a home where he was denied parental encouragement for his sport . |
| 14 | I was brought up in a pit village near Bishop Auckland and I never knew my father . |
| 15 | I think with erm , I I was brought up in a household where it was com , completely legitimate to admit to being depressed and that you would just have to cope , I think cope perhaps my most |
| 16 | I was brought up in a generation where there were only two kinds of girls — girls who did and girls who did n't . |
| 17 | No heroes or heroines from TV ever entered my world , for I was brought up in a society that banned television . |
| 18 | In the case of Repton light-middleweight Leon Young , there was no encouraging influence at all as he was brought up in a Dr Barnardo 's home in Barkingside . |
| 19 | He was brought up in a car . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , I was brought up in a vicarage myself and know how things are or can be , ’ he said confusedly . |
| 21 | Born in 1945 , Sutton was brought up in a Nissen hut , the son of a mechanic and a hairdresser . |
| 22 | He knows exactly what she means — he was brought up in a street that might have been just round the corner . |