Example sentences of "[noun sg] grow [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miles felt the confusion in his mind grow into a relentless horror . |
| 2 | This requires that capital and labour grow at the same rate ; i.e. , and . |
| 3 | Crystals of gypsum grow within the pores of the rock where they exert mechanical stress , creating tiny fractures which eventually cause the stonework to crumble . |
| 4 | Splurge-weed grows as a set of straggling , amorphous branches in the sea . |
| 5 | A void grows around the sewer or in the vicinity of it and eventually the ground above collapses into the void . |
| 6 | There 's a bloody great bramble growing along the fence . |
| 7 | A weeping standard rose — a rambler growing from the top of a single stem — is especially beautiful when draped over a shaped top support , as here . |
| 8 | The greater danger is that there may be an even wider cultural gap growing between the two philosophies of rugby . |
| 9 | The commune moved to Devon , leaving behind them some rhubarb growing in the garden which was still there when Jarvis moved in . |
| 10 | The vine growing from the roof must have some substance . |
| 11 | Then there 's a water butt up by the back door ; and some honeysuckle growing over the porch . |
| 12 | First , a rift grew between the royal council in England and those whose daily task it was to face the French in France . |
| 13 | Showa Sin-Zan grew during the height of the Second World War , so that there were no official records of its growth , but a particularly astute village postmaster , Masao Mimatsu , kept a valuable pictorial record of its progress by drawing a series of profile sketches on the paper covering of his window . |
| 14 | Turnover grew by a quarter and margins would have been maintained but for strikes and other special factors mainly affecting the aerospace business . |
| 15 | The threat of Russo-Japanese confrontation grew around the turn of the century . |
| 16 | The man 's trembling want of her made her feel that speck grow into a force ; she began to enjoy denying him , then permitting him again , she used her strength to grip and pin him and squeeze him in parts that made him cry out , to gouge and scratch his pale , thin flesh , she fortified him with tisanes that make men what was called in her language ‘ cross ’ , and gave him leaves to chew to stay his excitement so she could explore the crustacean pinkness of his flesh and turn her curiosity and its tinge of disgust to a form of power over him which gave her pleasure . |
| 17 | Many flowers of the heath grow on the central plateau . |
| 18 | How large will my Snakehead grow in the present set-up , and what is its life expectancy ? |
| 19 | ‘ A strange monastic-looking man , ’ said Harold Macmillan , ‘ emaciated and said to live off watercress grown off the blotting paper on his desk . ’ |
| 20 | His tenure saw the gallery grow from a provincial treasure house to a world-renowned showcase which challenged the Metropolitan as the country 's most prestigious venue . |
| 21 | We the undermentioned agree to cut and secure all the corn grown on the farm in a workmanlike manner to my satisfaction ; make bottoms of stacks ; cover up when required ; hoe the turnips twice and turn or lift the barley once ; turn the pease once — each man to find a gaveller . |
| 22 | The first book sets us journeying in Essex , to a village grown into a town and the parish church of St. Mary . |
| 23 | It was strongly supported in the 1950s by the companies who purchased the cotton grown as a cash crop in the savannah , because it appeared to be the most effective way to reverse the declining fertility and falling yields which had become apparent by that time . |
| 24 | Mountain Equipment is marketing a ‘ Green Cotton ’ shirt ( £30 ) which uses cotton grown without the use of pesticides and defoliants and is manufactured in a less environmentally damaging way . |
| 25 | I thought they 'd probably want to see the video I was splicing together from the footage we were getting on opium growing in the Bekaa Valley , but these were cops on a government-paid vacation . |
| 26 | They had discovered the possibilities of cotton growing in the district ’ and they puzzled their Boer neighbours by their zest for games ( cricket , golf , polo ) and for such strange , unnecessary luxuries as electricity or water plumbing in their homes , or even wrought iron gates instead of the traditional wire strands which had to be laboriously fastened with primitive devices . |
| 27 | There were no vegetables or corn growing in the fields . |
| 28 | If the sport grows over the next 10 years as quickly as it has in the past five , I could make a lot of money . ’ |
| 29 | " You can see them , " she said bitterly , " all those dandelions and thistles , and all that bindweed growing under the fence . |
| 30 | The best vines are those closest to the village growing at a height of between 140 and 200 metres . |