Example sentences of "'d be brought [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , nobody would ever believe you 'd been brought up as a gardener 's boy ! |
| 2 | He 'd been brought up on a steady diet of blood , sweat and tears and Douglas Bader . |
| 3 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |
| 4 | Like the ‘ Mef if they 'd been brought up in a Yorkshire pit village instead of some jessified ‘ forest ’ , but with scurrilous standing in for the keyboards , ‘ V ’ are an untutored Stooges. that 's the Three Stooges , mind . |
| 5 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 6 | Rona was intensely practical in matters of charity , but then she 'd been brought up in a manse and was reading social studies . |