Example sentences of "he [was/were] brought [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I used to go with him , and incidently he was a , he was very good on classical music , although we never went into this although I 'd got very close to him but I 'm sure he were brought up in an orphanage you know , and never talked about this but I 'm sure he was . |
| 2 | He tumbled sixty feet before he was brought up with a jolt . |
| 3 | So he was brought up with her . ’ |
| 4 | He was brought up with his grandma and that . |
| 5 | HE was brought up on bases in Tallinn and Gremicha — a former prison camp , now an isolated naval station way down the Kola Peninsula . |
| 6 | With his sister Norma , who now lives in Newton Aycliffe , he was brought up at the hotel during the Second World War . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was brought up by a gaggle of ladies , and the result is that has enormous affection for them . |
| 10 | He was brought up by his mother and an aunt and then , after their deaths , by his elder brother . |
| 11 | He was brought up by his widowed mother and her elderly Catholic lodger , Martha Freeman , daughter of a rich West Indian planter , and at the age of sixteen he was articled to an apothecary in Wells , Somerset . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | After his father 's early death , he was brought up by his mother and educated locally and at Glasgow University . |
| 14 | In the way by which he was brought up by hand and also how his hands are burnt and so scarred by the fire in which he tries to save Miss Havisham , perhaps showing physically the mental scars he has taken on through his treatment of others , especially Joe . |
| 15 | He was a sickly child with a bad chest ; so was I. He was brought up by women ; so was I. |
| 16 | Russell was born of liberal , free-thinking parents , who died when he was an infant , and thereafter he was brought up by his grandmother , Lady Russell , the wife , though shortly the widow , of Lord John Russell , who was erm a Presbyterian who gradually moved over to Unitarianism and who , as Russell put it later , preached quote ‘ virtue at the expense of intellect , health , happiness and every mundane good . ’ |
| 17 | All wiped out in the War and he was brought up in an orphanage . |
| 18 | The chances are almost two-to-one that he was brought up in a fatherless household . |
| 19 | Born of humble parents early in the twelfth century , he was brought up in the fenlands round the Wash , and early in life wandered among the shoals and quicksands round the mouth of the Welland in search of wrecks and treasure . |
| 20 | He was brought up in an atmosphere of churchmanship , his revered father being a prominent layman who devoted his life to the reunification of the Anglican with the Roman church , and it was perhaps through him that he acquired what seems to have been an unconscious appreciation of the utility of goodness in public life ; one notes in his writings a tendency to equate prayer with will . |
| 21 | But 29-year-old Davey , who now lives in a lavish Florida mansion a long way from the two-up two-down terraced house he was brought up in , has no guarantees of success . |
| 22 | In the case of Repton light-middleweight Leon Young , there was no encouraging influence at all as he was brought up in a Dr Barnardo 's home in Barkingside . |
| 23 | David 's family were Welsh but he was brought up in London . |
| 24 | He knows exactly what she means — he was brought up in a street that might have been just round the corner . |
| 25 | He was brought up in humble circumstances . |
| 26 | He was brought up in South Africa , and at the age of six had a serious accident which confined him to bed for three years . |
| 27 | He was brought up in a rough area of Bradford and he and his mates used to play against the front shop of my old mate and skipper Brian Close . |
| 28 | And although he was brought up in the Protestant culture of Scotland 's capital , he is a fervent supporter of Celtic , the club of Roman Catholic persuasion in the hostile territory of Glasgow . |
| 29 | As a child he was brought up in Kent . |
| 30 | He was brought up in Victoria Road , Grangetown . |