Example sentences of "[noun] bring [pron] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | when you get tho when you get the half the er when you get sort of well like the scooterist dos and th the DJs bring it up , I mean they bring in a hard core |
| 2 | His words brought her up short . |
| 3 | I used to tease her about being so house-proud and she 'd tell me how her Aunt Rosina brought her up to do everything just so . ’ |
| 4 | Is this what life is for , is this why my parents brought me up with so much love and care ? |
| 5 | ‘ My parents brought me up to — ’ |
| 6 | The question brought her up short , but after a moment 's hesitation she answered it . |
| 7 | A servant girl brought me up water , I washed and lay back on the bed to rest before dinner . |
| 8 | It only remained then , in this tight little half-hour programme , for David Attenborough to bring us up to date on the mountain gorillas of Rwanda — they are mainly alive and moderately well but not thanks to poachers — and for Mr Soper to have a fleeting swipe at the conservation intentions of the government , and it was all over . |
| 9 | I 've managed to get them pretty manky from time to time and a spin through the washing machine brings them up as good as new . |
| 10 | ‘ My parents might have spent every penny they earned on helping their out-of-work friends , but Gran brought me up to be thrifty and never to get into debt . ’ |
| 11 | As well as adding to the old part of the story , the continuators brought it up to date till the death of Geoffrey le Bel , occasionally slipping into detailed narrative of events : there is a long and useful excursus on the politics of 1118 . |
| 12 | You will see from the lists above that modem education brings us up from early childhood to use our left brains in preference to our right brains . |
| 13 | It was also good to have our ‘ old ’ general manager with us for the day giving everyone the chance to bring him up to date with their news . |
| 14 | Is this a good idea , to have this kind of er , presentation to bring you up to date . |
| 15 | Entries trickled in all Saturday plus a few just five minutes before the event started on Sunday to bring us up to just about last year 's figure . |
| 16 | Insp Barry said : ‘ It would be easy to blame the parents , but they seem to have made reasonable efforts to bring him up properly . |
| 17 | Just my personal assistant bringing me up to date on some business matters , ’ he added dismissively as he walked over to the other side of the bed , picking up his slim gold watch from a small table . |
| 18 | Two key objectives : establishing a network and investigator bringing himself up to speed on the French plastic cards and payment systems market . |
| 19 | ‘ father brought me up here on his back in the spring one year , and I sat in the moor while he and old Donald were digging peats . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's nothing I 've done that I 'm ashamed of , Cleg , ’ she said softly , ‘ my father brought me up to be respectable and that 's what I am . ’ |
| 21 | My father brought me up . |
| 22 | My father brought me up — he 'd trained me to be the nicest kind of boy , tough , self-reliant . |
| 23 | Maureen answered straight away , and listened eagerly , giving excited squeaks from time to time as her niece brought her up to date on everything that had happened . |
| 24 | I asked Miss Matlock to bring me up a thermos of soup and a plate of smoked salmon sandwiches at six o'clock . |
| 25 | ‘ We have n't got the guns to do a quarter of that damage , ’ Dickinson said , ‘ and in this weather it would take a week to bring them up . |
| 26 | The other thing perhaps I could just say , chairman , is that I did meet a representative of the district auditor last week to bring you up to date on the work which the education committee was doing . |
| 27 | If this is the case , the European Court held that it must permit the applicant to establish that since obtaining his/her qualifications , he/she had gained further knowledge and qualifications to bring him/her up to the necessary standard . |
| 28 | Gary brought him up the hospital to meet me he would n't speak to any of the nurses |
| 29 | Walking through the woods at the back of Westfield Manor , Patrick brought him up to date on the burglar who had committed murder to get hold of a packet of letters , and the macabre business of the switched bodies . |
| 30 | So my grandmother brought us up … took care of us … |