bring up

to mention

• Don't bring it up.
• Why bring it up now?
• I'm sorry I brought it up.
• Tom brought up the subject.
• I knew you'd bring that up.
• That's why I brought it up.
• I'm glad you brought this up.
• I'm glad you brought that up.
• I shouldn't have brought it up.
• I didn't bring this topic up with her.
• You picked a bad time to bring up that topic.
• Westerners, in general, prefer to avoid such topics unless the other person brings them up.
• The lawyer brought up new evidence.
• You don't need to bring up the matter.
• Never bring up religion or politics in the first conversation!
• He brought up a series of issues at the meeting.
• In order to distract the others, we brought up this irrelevant issue as a red herring.
• She says you'll bring up the question when the time comes.
• Tom hesitated to bring up the subject.
• I'm the one who brought the subject up.
• New problems are often brought up on that TV programme.
• That's a good point to bring up during the meeting.
• That was a very inconvenient time to bring up the subject.
• Tom brought up an interesting point during the meeting.
• Please bring your plan up at the meeting.
• The matter will be brought up at the next meeting.
• Tom didn't bring the matter up at the meeting this morning.
• I feel a little uncomfortable bringing this up, but I love you.
• If you don't want to bring that matter up, I'll try to understand you.
• That is not a proper subject to bring up in conversation at the dinner table.
• Whenever someone brings up politics, he always ends up reconsidering his positions on everything.
• Omission is a perfectly good example of an expression technique, and is brought up in many grammar books.
• You don't need to bring up "A Winter Sonata" to show that South Korean culture is having an unexpected boom in Japan.

to raise (a child)

• He was well brought up.
• She is well brought up.
• She was brought up by him.
• She brought up two children.
• Tom was brought up in Boston.
• Dan was brought up by an aunt.
• He was brought up in Australia.
• He was brought up by his uncle.
• She was brought up by her aunt.
• I was born and brought up here.
• I brought up two children alone.
• I was brought up in the country.
• Tom was brought up in Australia.
• My aunt brought up five children.
• He was brought up to be a doctor.
• She has brought up five children.
• I was born and brought up in Tokyo.
• He was born and brought up in Tokyo.
• She was brought up in a rich family.
• Dan brought up his children in London.
• I was born and brought up in Matsuyama.
• She brought him up in the Jewish faith.
• She was brought up in the lap of luxury.
• My ex-boyfriend was brought up in Portugal.
• He was born in Ohio but brought up in Texas.
• I was born in Osaka, but brought up in Tokyo.
• He must have been brought up in a good family.
• I was born in Osaka, but was brought up in Tokyo.
• Both of my parents were brought up in the country.
• I was born in Osaka, but I was brought up in Tokyo.
• I was born in Boston, but was brought up in Chicago.
• This is the house in which I was born and brought up.
• The town where he was brought up lies east of Osaka.
• I was born in Boston, but I was brought up in Chicago.
• She was born and brought up in Osaka.
• She has a good command of English though she was brought up in Japan.
• My maternal aunt brought me up after my parents died in a plane crash.
• Even though Tom was brought up in the country, he loves the hustle and bustle of the city.
• He is an American, but as he was born and brought up in Japan, he can speak Japanese quite fluently.
• In Thailand, bringing up the children isn't the father's responsibility; it's entirely up to the mother.
• She was well brought up by her parents.
• Tom was brought up by his grandparents.
• Lucy was brought up by her grandparents.
• The parents have brought up the child well.
• After his parents' death he was brought up by his aunt.
• After their parents died, their grandparents brought them up.
• Because his parents had died when he was young, his uncle brought him up.
• Unlike his sister, he has retained the religious faith his parents brought him up in.
• The higher the ratio of children to parents, the harder it is to bring up the children.
• She brought up the three children alone.
• She brought up nine children in her life.
• She brought up her children to be truthful.
• It is quite a hard thing to bring up a child.
• Kevin was brought up by his aunt in the country.
• She brought up her child at the cost of her life.
• Though they were poor, they brought up seven children.
• It's difficult bringing up a child who is not your own.
• What does it matter how they bring up their own children?
• Their manner of bringing up their children is extremely unusual.
• After her husband's death, she brought up the four children by herself.
• After her husband's death, she brought up the two children all by herself.
• I will bring my children up in such a way that they will be protected from superstition.
• And at times when I became discouraged with trying to reconcile working and bringing up children, it was my husband who helped to maintain my determination.
• Japanese children brought up overseas sometimes face great difficulty in adjusting themselves to Japanese schools after returning, even though they have a perfect command of Japanese.
• Tom was brought up by his aunt and uncle.
• She was brought up according to the Jewish religion.
• He turned with a vengeance against the religion he was brought up in.
• I was brought up by my grandmother.
• He was brought up by her grandmother.
• She was brought up by her grandfather.
• She was brought up by her grandmother.
• My youngest brother was brought up by our grandmother.
• His mother died when he was young, and his grandmother brought him up.
• I was brought up under rigid discipline.
• Mozart was brought up to be a musician.
• I brought up two kids all on my own.
• His sons are not properly brought up.
• This is where I was born and brought up.
• I brought you up under my personal care.
• His father brought him up to be a doctor.
• This is the house where he was brought up.
• This is the house where Tom was brought up.
• I want to bring up my son as my father did me.
• She was born and brought up on the backstreets.
• He was brought up against the realities of life.
• His nephew was brought up to be modest and considerate.
• This is the house where my father was born and brought up.
• They had brought up their sons to stand on their own feet.
• She behaves as if she had been brought up in a good family.
• Tom's conduct is a reflection on the way he was brought up.
• He adopted a war orphan and is bringing her up as a foster daughter.
• Having been brought up in America, my father speaks English fluently.
• Human beings alone take a very long time to bring up their little ones.
• I think that your mother has brought you up in a very conservative manner.
• Whether we find a joke funny or not largely depends on where we have been brought up.