Example sentences of "[coord] he [be] brought [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His parents , brother and sister emigrated to the United States when he was a youngster and he was brought up by his grandmother , and it was only the lack of cricket in America which later deterred him from joining them . |
| 2 | His father , a Hertfordshire attorney , died when he was a child and he was brought up by his uncle , Izaak Walton , the author of Lives of Hooker and Herbert and the friend of Nicholas Ferrar . |
| 3 | His father died while he was still young and he was brought up by his mother and paternal grandfather , who owned a tailor 's shop in Moor Street , Birmingham . |
| 4 | All wiped out in the War and he was brought up in an orphanage . |
| 5 | ‘ If John Barnes had been going through on goal and he was brought down by John Humphrey , he would have been sent off . |
| 6 | David 's family were Welsh but he was brought up in London . |