Example sentences of "[noun pl] growing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our photographer Roger Phillips found some dryad 's saddle fungi growing outside the kitchen window . |
| 2 | At one point I had pretty yellow fungi growing from the floor , which was right above a store room to the cafe downstairs ; needless to say , I never ate there . |
| 3 | Warm scents rose from a honeysuckle hedge at Monboddo , the much-changed home of a man who , according to Sir Walter Scott , went out at night with a candle to inspect his turnips growing in the fields ; who , hating to sit behind a horse 's backside , would not travel in a carriage and therefore — he was in his eighties — rode to London on horseback ; who took a cold bath every day and damaged his children 's health by insisting they did the same ; and who , when in residence at Edinburgh , gave dinner parties at which his wine-flagons were wreathed in garlands of roses . |
| 4 | Dead black roses drooped from the unkempt bushes growing over the face of the house , and the broad flagged path was almost hidden by unswept leaves . |
| 5 | The farm has nine acres of land , including the ruins of an old British indigo factory — a long redbrick wall with trees and bushes growing on the old factory floor , weeds climbing along the bricks . |
| 6 | Wherever you look , the French countryside is brimming with light , colour , the aroma of herbs growing in the wild , and a people and scenery that make it one of the most wonderfully enticing parts of the world . |
| 7 | The walled garden is divided by stone-chip paths with neat low box hedges , and there are flowers and herbs growing alongside the vegetables . |
| 8 | It is a strange sight now to see vegetables growing on the pure white substrate . |
| 9 | The death of plants growing under the canopy , where rainfall drips onto them , is also quite widely reported . |
| 10 | TWO alert cops made a drug bust — and seized cannabis plants growing at the POLICE STATION . |
| 11 | The archer fish is partial to flies and other insects that may settle on plants growing on the banks . |
| 12 | FIGURE 3 I put in a few plants growing outside the window . |
| 13 | As there is no soil at all on this rocky islet vegetation is almost non-existent , but we did come across a few tenacious rock plants growing from the guano in rock crevices . |
| 14 | I also feel that it is important to have plants growing in the aquarium and/or algae depending on what is found in the fish 's natural habitat . |
| 15 | Yes , that 's what it is , and in the grammar school they had biology wanted to have plants growing in the dark but provide a light for them . |
| 16 | But I mean th they 're decorative walls , they 've got plants growing in the top and this sort of thing , built up to the , about the level of the window |
| 17 | During the 1989 and 1990 growing seasons , we used a microvideo camera to record monthly images of fine root cohorts growing along the exterior surfaces of 12 minirhizotrons ( clear plastic tubes ) located in each forest . |
| 18 | Indeed , this very struggle that I find so fascinating in the writing of Paradise Lost , you know , a rather intimate way I feel I can see it in eleven words that come just a little earlier in the fourth book , in which he tells us ‘ Seeing the apples growing on the trees , that they are hisperian fables true , if true here only and of delicious taste ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Are things growing in the garden where he lives ? ’ |
| 20 | And she 's got kiwi fruits and peppers and all sorts of things growing in the garden . |
| 21 | My Search reveals that the property is within a conservation area and this means that if there are any trees growing on the property they have the same protection as trees the subject of a Tree Preservation Order . |
| 22 | No sooner had this year 's tournament finished , than work began on the £10m octagonal shaped 14,000 seater stadium , which will have giant palm trees growing through the stairways to help maintain the distinctive flavour of South Florida . |
| 23 | It can be a rather gloomy spot , though a series of large trees growing along the clifftop — allied to the cliff 's aspect — means the place is sheltered from the prevailing winds . |
| 24 | In the 1800s there were two large ash trees growing inside the chancel , these were cut down in 1892 but the stumps are still clearly visible . |
| 25 | One of the most handsome and unusual trees growing in the Dell at Bodnant in Gwynedd is the umbrella pine ( Sciadopitys verticillata ) , a native of Japan where it is now rare and increasingly threatened by man 's activities , principally logging . |
| 26 | ( Well , you do n't get many soldier orchids growing between the paving stones in Manchester . |
| 27 | Starting from the clubhouse on the first day and walking along the edge of the wood we came to a piece of natural grassland studded with patches of purpose tufted vetch and orchids growing among the unmown grass . |
| 28 | Lower down we emerged on to a more open country of grass-covered hills , with delphiniums gladioli and other flowers growing along the banks of the many streams . |
| 29 | Afterwards this incident and the flowers growing in the river were all that Victoria remembered of that summer . |
| 30 | Perhaps they will pick the wild flowers growing in the lush grasses , cornflower , poppy , clover , eglantine and the frail vetch . |