Example sentences of "i was brought [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1	Stewart , who managed England 's Test side for six years and steered them to successive World Cup finals , said : ‘ When I was brought up during the war , serving Queen and country meant a lot to my generation .
2	Well I was brought up on the story .
3	In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child .
4	It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation .
5	I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English .
6	As a male Caucasian with a father who had died of a coronary thrombosis at the age of 59 , I was brought up in the smoky atmosphere of a northern industrial town .
7	Like most people , I was brought up in the belief that a nightmare was something bad that happened while you were asleep .
8	And it it was , I mean I was brought up in the country and it , I found it really shocking that people had to live like that , you know .
9	I was brought up in the country , on a farm you know , so I 'll try and sort of make you know equal amount of flowers in each , and then er it can be halved .
10	‘ I was brought up in the countryside .
11	I was brought up in the cloister , and have Latin and French as well as English and Welsh . ’
12	I was brought up in the days of the old Police Acts .
13	I was brought up before the era of sex education and I managed to get by .
14	I was brought back to the mundane present by the shiver of chill that ran over me .

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