Example sentences of "grow up [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not bad for a girl who had grown up on a council estate . |
| 2 | We had grown up with a monopoly situation and there was no semblance of looking outside . |
| 3 | It has even been speculated that a community which has grown up around a manufacturing plant may have a claim for compensation against the owners , if the latter decide to close the plant , in order to compensate for the diminution of land values and the destruction of the local economy . |
| 4 | He had grown up in a quasi-syndicalist tradition in the Liverpool docks , and his influence in the sixties had been thrown behind the growth of the shop-stewards movement and local plant bargaining on a devolved basis very much on the lines of the 1968 Donovan Report . |
| 5 | Would she grow up into a street urchin , plimsolls , no socks , grimy tee shirt , with a London accent grating on a nicely-brought-up ear ? |
| 6 | His gouverneur or chief guardian was General Frossard , but it was the wish of the Emperor and Empress that apart from obligatory public appearances , which were confined to a minimum , the child should grow up in a family atmosphere . |
| 7 | GROWING up on a tobacco farm was enough to convince Cheryl Boston that she was not cut out for the agricultural life . |
| 8 | He wrote love-letters for his less literate friends , as did William Lovett growing up in a fishing village at the other end of England . |
| 9 | The real matter is in fact that the vast majority of children in this country are growing up in a secularist culture which rules out religion altogether , and that those within faith communities are living in a world in which their faiths will be more and more subjected to secularist interrogation . |
| 10 | ‘ It is important to grow up in a family environment . |
| 11 | Carnforth grew up as a railway town from 1857 . |
| 12 | Cowsfield Gate , in Whiteparish Wiltshire is now a handful of cottages which grew up around a toll house after 1767 when the Salisbury to Romsey road was turnpiked and re-aligned . |
| 13 | Matthew grew up in a family atmosphere of sweetness and light . |