Example sentences of "[pers pn] grow [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We pour much time , money , anxiety and effort into our children simply for the pleasure of seeing them grow into the kind of people we long for them to be . |
| 2 | But the pigeon 's adaptation to such a diet of large objects is so good that seeds only a little smaller than a nutmeg will pass right through the bird and be ejected together with a small quantity of droppings which will help them grow on the forest floor . |
| 3 | I sat down behind my desk and tried to pull myself together ; I was trembling suddenly , and I felt the hollowness inside me growing into a pain . |
| 4 | from Spain , where he had found them growing in the wild . |
| 5 | Frog eggs are about one to two millimetres in diameter and , like the chick , have enough yolk to enable them to grow to a stage when they can feed themselves . |
| 6 | ‘ We want them to grow with the company . ’ |
| 7 | The unfortunately British idea that at school , as well as a place of learning and a place where you grow from a child into an adult , is a kind of military disciplinary academy , I think is most unfortunate . |
| 8 | Er , what you grow in a window boxes . |
| 9 | Good training is there to support you and help you grow as an actor — and usually , it works . |
| 10 | Chicken will make you grow into a big strong boy . |
| 11 | From eager hairdresser who lacks confidence , she grows into an articulate and sure young woman who can argue the merits of Chekov , Lawrence and Yeats with ‘ real ’ students . |
| 12 | This Scarlet had done , and now she wondered how she could have : maybe you became more squeamish the further away you grew from the experience of childbirth . |
| 13 | They sent her to London for elocution lessons and she grew into a lovely young lady . |
| 14 | It is through literature that we grow into a particular kind of awareness of ourselves and — an inseparable corollary — of our manifold relations with each other and all that is not self , without which there is really not much ‘ self ’ to talk about . |
| 15 | May we grow towards a deeper awareness of other people — their joys , their fears and their suffering . |
| 16 | We grew throughout the 1980s better than any other major European country except Spain : we received the highest growth in manufacturing productivity of any Group of Seven country and faster growth in business investment than any other G7 country except Japan . |
| 17 | Like the bats , the pterosaurs had membranous wings stretched between highly modified arms and ‘ hands ’ and the fore part of the legs ; unlike the bats some of them grew to an enormous size and the front support for the wing was provided by only one finger of the hand , grotesquely extended . |
| 18 | After its eggs have been fertilised , they grow into a tall plant like the previous spore-producing generation . |
| 19 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 20 | It could well become equally true in other systems as they grow to the size , complexity and pressures of TDC . |
| 21 | A middle-sized species of whale , they grow to an average of 7 metres ( 23 feet ) long , and weigh up to 2 tonnes . |
| 22 | These four varieties are ideal small garden plants , as they grow on a single stem and do n't need pruning . |
| 23 | But apparently these fish do have one redeeming feature — they grow like the clappers . |
| 24 | They grow by a series of moults but never pass through a pupal stage or undergo transformation . |
| 25 | The age of trees can easily be calculated if they grow in an environment where there are distinct seasons . |
| 26 | They also do n't like wind rock so in a , an exposed position young plants do really need more staking than you 'd probably give a bush because they tend to rot off at the roots if they grow around a lot . |
| 27 | I watched her grow into a tomboy with a smile that encompassed the world ; eyes with the devil inside . |
| 28 | I watched her cry and I watched her grow into a beautiful assured young woman with the same infectious grin . |
| 29 | Now let us see how the branches grow from the main trunk ; at what angle do they grow from the trunk ? |
| 30 | They grew to a length of three or four metres and their jaws were spiked with lines of cone-shaped teeth . |