Example sentences of "'ve be bring " in BNC.

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1 ‘ They 've been bringing their dogs to do their business in my front garden , and if I go to the council , d' you know what they 'll say ?
2 And remember too , despite what we 've been brought up to believe , a suntan is not a symbol of health and fitness .
3 And how many people can be sure of things about themselves when they 've been brought up to please other people ?
4 ‘ You 've been brought here to give a full account of Captain Meredith 's dealings .
5 he says , ‘ But they 've been brought up short when they 've suddenly realised just how complex these job evaluation schemes are — and just how much care has to be taken when introducing them .
6 It 's very hard to leave a reservation once you 've been brought up there .
7 How am I going to manage this house and be a wife you can be proud of , when I 've been brought up a different way , and everybody in the place knows it ? ’
8 We 've been brought up to think that it 's not nice and not polite to do so .
9 Interrupt — difficult to do if you 've been brought up to be polite , but necessary to learn .
10 ‘ I 've been brought up to think that schoolwork comes first , you know , if you want to get anywhere . ’
11 I do n't know how you 've been brought up but this house is run in the Fear of the Lord . ’
12 ‘ It 's the way I 've been brought up . ’
13 She says many youngsters who 've been brought up in care are often incapable of looking after themselves when they leave .
14 We 've been brought up to know that it ca n't last and we 're deeply suspicious of what we disdainfully see as decadent ‘ beach bimbos ’ .
15 Now I do n't know if you 've been brought up on a diet of men who jump in and out of bed with whatever women take their fancy , but if you have then I suggest you go find one of them to satiate your appetite .
16 ‘ This is the sort of life you 've been brought up to enjoy .
17 But it 's difficult to remember things like that when you 've been brought up in a village and you 're used to chatting to everyone you meet .
18 ‘ I can never understand people who 've been brought up in your country .
19 We 've got Apex who 've been brought in to bring in the new the white collar worker unions to form another concept of trade unionism .
20 They 've been brought up different way have n't they .
21 The thing about the Paddies is that some of them can pass as English if they 've been brought up here .
22 ‘ Well , I 've been brought up in a good school these last few years , do n't you think ?
23 . I mean it 's very much again the way they 've been brought up , because they do n't feel that they 've got to earn respect and love .
24 You 've been brought up in a television age and you 've been particularly been brought up in an age of card cartoons and soap operas and in all of those you would er expect to see good being oppressed that 's part of the plot in every cartoon there is a plot in every soap opera , that the good the good people actually end up in difficult situations and the way that results in the cartoons and in the soap operas is usually find revenge or punishment .
25 ‘ This is a battle for me but I 've been brought up to battle .
26 Following last night 's 2–0 defeat by the USA he said : ‘ This is a battle for me , but I 've been brought up to battle .
27 He has sympathy for the small scale dealers : ‘ They 've been brought up in an entrepreneurial country under Thatcher where they 've been taught to make money .
28 Cherry stopped him and said what you doing she said George this old man he 's said I 'm going to give this to the manager like he said because I 've been brought all these trolleys back .
29 It depends what you 've been brought up with though dun n it ?
30 When you 're on blankets and you 've been brought up on blankets er you 're used to blankets
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