Example sentences of "she [verb] [been] bring " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her parents were killed in an accident when she was very young , and she has been brought up at the château , almost as the daughter of the house . |
| 2 | But for Mum the Second World War was still present in our streets , the streets where she 'd been brought up . |
| 3 | He 'd thought she was something special from the moment she 'd been brought in . |
| 4 | Xanthe for her part considered her image beside the young woman she 'd been brought up with , and thought how sorry she felt for her . |
| 5 | Certainly Joanne Menzies appeared not to recognize him , although he 'd rather regretted choosing the character of Detective-Sergeant McWhirter of Scotland Yard when she revealed that she 'd been brought up near the Kyles of Bute . |
| 6 | Rona was intensely practical in matters of charity , but then she 'd been brought up in a manse and was reading social studies . |
| 7 | She had been brought up a good Church of England girl — she knew the drill . |
| 8 | She had been brought up by clear-thinking women . |
| 9 | That was how she had been brought up . |
| 10 | For that was what she had been brought up to believe , that was how the rhyme went : |
| 11 | But she understood , because she had been brought up on a farm . |
| 12 | Despite describing a happy childhood , she told her therapist about how she had been brought up in a family where she felt unappreciated and undervalued . |
| 13 | ‘ She had been brought out to Romiley in a car by two men who had poured petrol on her and set her alight . ’ |
| 14 | She had been brought up in the most isolated of spots — although , perhaps , because of its very isolation and Granny Tremayne 's aloofness , she had simply known about , but not exactly experienced , communal village life . |
| 15 | She had been brought up on Ireland 's suffering under British rule . |
| 16 | I heard them say that she had been brought to hospital because her belly was still full of urine . ’ |
| 17 | She knew she had been brought up these last few years with her Aunt Alice and Uncle Stan because of the instability at home . |
| 18 | Miss Honey did just that , and within a couple of weeks she had moved into The Red House , the very place in which she had been brought up and where luckily all the family furniture and pictures were still around . |
| 19 | She had been brought up in the sophistication of inner Moscow , and she had travelled to European Germany . |
| 20 | She had been brought up as a chapel-goer , and two generations back her family had been staunch Wesleyans , but she herself had long since dropped any pretence to faith of any kind , and now considered all religious observation as ridiculous frivolity . |
| 21 | It was this lack of division that most effectively concealed from Clara the basic , classic structure of the building , for she had been brought up with the notion that walls must be above eye-level , lace curtains impenetrable , bedrooms facing discreetly into the void . |
| 22 | She had been brought up to be thrifty and careful . |
| 23 | She was thinking of a bleak room in a small block of flats in Streatham , the curtains drawn to keep in the heat , the walls weighed down with the knick-knacks of a happy life : the flat she had been brought up in . |
| 24 | She had been brought up a Unitarian , but about the time of her brother 's death she decided to become a Roman Catholic . |
| 25 | But in the society where she had been brought up marriage was still very much the expected norm . |
| 26 | ‘ But one likes doing things for people , ’ said Ianthe firmly , for of course she had been brought up to think that one should , though perhaps this situation was a little different . |
| 27 | I also remember right from when she was a baby as I went to see her after she had been brought home . |
| 28 | She 's been brought to Banbury from Newcastle on Tyne where she was arrested . |
| 29 | Even though her relatives never lived on the Thames , she 's been brought along to check out a new artificial holt , built by volunteers from the conservation group , BBONT . |
| 30 | Even though her relatives never lived on the Thames … she 's been brought along to check out a new artificial holt … built by volunteers from the conservation group … |