Example sentences of "brought up on 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 problems with most people , if I can generalise , is that they have been brought up on the notion that a picture has to represent something and that to them means something recognizable , like a tree , or a landscape , or a windmill , or an oast house . |
| 3 | Brought up on the dictum that ‘ any foreign material in the body would re-emerge in a sea of pus ’ , his biggest fear was of bacterial infection . |
| 4 | I had also been brought up on the story of the man who boasted that his ancestor had lost his leg at Waterloo , to which the response was ‘ Which platform ? ’ |
| 5 | Well I was brought up on the story . |