Example sentences of "[vb past] grow [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I finally stopped growing at the age of 17 I felt relief . |
| 2 | The standard rose is really a bush rose growing on a single stem . |
| 3 | The craving for meat seemed to grow with the cold ; chickens were sometimes killed and eaten but never gratuitously , only in sacrifice at the gods ' demand , and the sheep and goats were away in the south . |
| 4 | Spa towns led by Bath , ports headed by Bristol and Liverpool and including the new venture at Whitehaven , and manufacturing centres like Birmingham , Leeds , Manchester and Sheffield began to grow at a significant rate . |
| 5 | Their eyes held for a moment and a slow smile began to grow on the darkly handsome face . |
| 6 | Although their favourite dog is possibly the Bouvier des Flandres , real interest began to grow in the Rottweiler in the 1960s . |
| 7 | The Masterpiece , a collection of folklore about the body and its functions , was probably the single most popular source of information on sex relations and childbirth , and the continuing publication of this work was possibly the last remnant of a much stronger popular demand and usage that began to grow in the nineteenth century with increasing literate audiences demanding knowledge . |
| 8 | The end of the coil is closed , and it seems reasonable to assume that the animal started growing as a coiled shell . |
| 9 | ‘ There is still a place for old favourites such as viscaria , a plant I loved growing as a child although it is not much seen today . |
| 10 | The species of tomato they chose to grow in the banknote compost is called money maker . |
| 11 | Only services managed to grow by a meagre 2.4% . |
| 12 | That was really seen as the crowning achievement , keeping your garden clear of weeds — not what you managed to grow in the space . |
| 13 | This also served to dye the nasty brown hairs that kept growing from the roots underneath . |
| 14 | Where the climate has frosty winters , containers enable the tender herbs to be grown through the summer so that they may be dried and preserved for use in winter , or kept growing in the greenhouse or home . |
| 15 | Mass-market success of the instrument was not immediate , however , although the reputation of the bass did grow in the country , blues and jazz fields as the '50s progressed and rock'n'roll established itself . |
| 16 | After two years of negative growth , the economy did grow in the mid 1980s at a phenomenal rate . |
| 17 | The business did grow after the arrival of Michael Curlewis in 1982 when billings were still below £300 000 ; according to the accounts filed at Companies ' House , in 1985 Boyden , with only three consultants , achieved a turnover of £490258 . |
| 18 | Not much enthusiasm was transferred in the migration to the UK and the enthusiasm which appeared to grow in the 1980s seems mainly due to the successes of young black players in the football league . |
| 19 | But at the time I took her , the bushes had grown across the path , and we got stuck , with her widow 's weeds entangled in branches and thorns until she could move no more . |
| 20 | The circle of women had grown beyond the immediate family . |
| 21 | At least he had grown beyond the need to despise people in order to give himself stature . |
| 22 | Previously their real and money wages had grown at a rate q , the rate of productivity growth . |
| 23 | In 1979 , the World Bank published a glowing report , Romania : Industrialization under Socialist Planning , which claimed , on the basis of official Romanian government figures , that in the quarter century between 1950 and 1975 , the Romanian economy had grown at an average compound annual rate of over 9% . |
| 24 | In the previous four years GNP had grown at an average rate of about 3 per cent per annum which was lower than the preceding years and unemployment had reached a peak of 8.3 per cent in 1970 . |
| 25 | In the absence of appropriate provision by other bodies , the WEA had grown as a social movement which sought to provide those opportunities for people , denied access to further and higher education , either through its own efforts or cooperatively , but without patronage , in partnership with the universities , LEAs , and other agencies . |
| 26 | The losses of the state sector had grown as a result of the explosion of labour costs with the return to democracy , and because the state holding company INI ( Instituto Nacional de Industrias ) became a ‘ hospital ’ for near-bankrupt private companies ; these accounted for more than 40 per cent of its losses in 1983 . |
| 27 | Church B had grown to a Sunday morning attendance of 200 . |
| 28 | When she was in her fifties and had grown to a generous obesity , her husband would whisper proudly to his dinner guests as they stood in front of some glowing nude or abstract construction , ‘ Wonderful artist , was n't he ? |
| 29 | Although conditions were a little better in that there was a bit of breeze at times during the night , the moon had grown to a full half rather than the quarter it had been . |
| 30 | By the end of this period , it had grown to the size of a grapefruit — not much , admittedly , but a billion billion times larger than before . |