Example sentences of "[verb] grown a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was pleased to see that , after its own trials , Bridgemere Nurseries in Cheshire , one of the biggest and best garden centres for plants in the country , has grown a quarter of a million herbaceous plants in coir compost . |
| 2 | Also , with healthy deciduous trees , the leaves all come with great show every Spring and die off in the Autumn — but more come each successive year cos the tree has grown a bit so the foliage is thicker , more complex in structure — until it dies of course . |
| 3 | Torquil Norman summed-up the ‘ life ’ that the airfield had regained , ‘ the place has grown a pace more through its own heritage than our input … it has taken on its own momentum … ’ |
| 4 | EX-MINER Arthur Simcox , of Brown Edge , Staffs , has grown a 2lb 14oz tomato measuring more than 2ft round . |
| 5 | Some hive worlds consist of shell upon shell of plasteel braced by great pillars , as if the planet has grown a metal skin and then another skin and yet another , each successive skin being home to billions of busy human maggots , fleas , lice . |
| 6 | In its place has grown a concern to develop and sustain humane standards of custody : what Winston Churchill once described as ‘ one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country ’ . |
| 7 | Zambia noticed she 'd grown a tuft of the real stuff back which fell into her eyes . |
| 8 | I seem to have grown a trifle anxious . ’ |
| 9 | You 've grown a trunk ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 've grown a moustache , I see , ’ Tweed remarked . |
| 11 | Grunte then asked them whether they had heard the one about the Norwegian woman who had bought her son three shoes , having been told he had grown a foot ; a sally which was met by universal groans . |
| 12 | He had his back to me , and he had grown a beard , but his hair was still thick and blond . |
| 13 | To mitigate his appearance , he had grown a beard — though it was so fine , to conform with custom , that it might have been painted on with a kohl-brush , an impression reinforced by the methodical severity with which the rest of the face had been shaved . |
| 14 | She was young-old : a brittle blonde whose face had probably been beautiful but now sagged just a bit , was creased just a bit , and had grown a lip of wattle behind the chin . |
| 15 | He had grown a lot in the last few months . |
| 16 | He was waiting on the Jackley Road outside a pub called the Ostrich , Kevin 's double in every particular until he had grown a moustache . |
| 17 | He had grown a moustache in order to look like Ian Botham and he drove a 1960s Jag like Inspector Morse . |
| 18 | There had been a medieval hospital ( in nature and purpose not unlike Emanuel in Westminister ) from which had grown a grammar school . |
| 19 | No I could n't say that that was the child , erm possibly she 's grown a bit , quite considerably . |
| 20 | It was all blood gone on there , it 's grown a bit now . |
| 21 | Yeah he 's grown a beard ai n't he ? |
| 22 | I HAVE grown a palm from a date stone , but do n't know how to care for it . |