Example sentences of "bring up in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other extreme was a Filipino who had been brought up in the slums of Manila , his father an alcoholic drug dealer and his mother a whore . |
| 2 | Brought up in the slums of Cowgate , Connolly left St Patrick 's School at ten and became in turn printer 's ‘ devil ’ , bakery hand , and tiling-factory worker . |
| 3 | Born of humble parents early in the twelfth century , he was brought up in the fenlands round the Wash , and early in life wandered among the shoals and quicksands round the mouth of the Welland in search of wrecks and treasure . |
| 4 | Cos quite a g quite a few young people have actually been brought up in the flats , have n't they ? |
| 5 | During the war Well while the war as going on nationalization was brought up in the buffets by what we would term now , the activist or militant Labour people . |
| 6 | And he ordered that his daughters should be brought up in the studies beseeming dames . |
| 7 | An individual who has been brought up in the abstractions of education and capital , and who is certain of obtaining daily necessities , cultivates a distance from these needs , and affects a taste based in the respect and desire for the abstract , distanced and formal . |
| 8 | I was brought up in the days of the old Police Acts . |
| 9 | Brought up in the outskirts of the city , his grandparents had often told him stories of how a bocor could trap your soul through your shadow . |