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  • 81well-brought-up — also well brought up ADJ GRADED If you say that someone, especially a child, is well brought up, you mean that they are very polite because they have been taught good manners. He s just a well brought up, middle class boy …

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  • 82bought vs brought —   bought past tense of the verb to buy   For example: I bought a newspaper at the newsagents.   brought past tense of the verb to bring   For example: She brought her homework to the lesson.   ! As a child I used to struggle to remember this one …

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  • 83bought vs brought —   bought past tense of the verb to buy   For example: I bought a newspaper at the newsagents.   brought past tense of the verb to bring   For example: She brought her homework to the lesson.   ! As a child I used to struggle to remember this one …

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  • 84well-brought-up — UK [ˌwel brɔːt ˈʌp] US [ˌwel brɔt ˈʌp] adjective someone who is well brought up knows how to behave politely because they have been taught well by their parents a well brought up child Thesaurus: politesynonym …

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  • 85To be brought to bed — Bed Bed, n. [AS. bed, bedd; akin to OS. bed, D. bed, bedde, Icel. be?r, Dan. bed, Sw. b[ a]dd, Goth. badi, OHG. betti, G. bett, bette, bed, beet a plat of ground; all of uncertain origin.] 1. An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or… …

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  • 86You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me — is a 1930 popular song. The credits list music and lyrics as written by Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, and Pierre Norman. Since Fain was primarily a musicwriter and Kahal a lyricist, it may be assumed that the music was by Fain and lyrics were by… …

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  • 87Cries from Casement as His Bones are Brought to Dublin — is a radio play written by David Rudkin that examines the life and controversial legacy of Irish nationalist and British diplomat Roger Casement. It was first broadcast on BBC Radio in 1973. The project began in 1966 as a commission for Rudkin to …

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  • 88well-brought-up — adj a child who is well brought up has been taught to be polite and to behave well …

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  • 89be brought to account — be brought/called to account formal to be forced to explain something you did wrong, and usually to be punished. What concerns us most is that the people responsible for the violence should be brought to account …

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  • 90look like something the cat brought in — look like something the cat brought/dragged in informal if someone looks like something the cat brought in, they are very untidy and dirty. You can t possibly go to school like that you look like something the cat dragged in! …

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