Example sentences of "[coord] as he grew " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prince was becoming enthused , and as he grew more confident about the area he had targeted and took on more projects , he began to make increasingly serious and significant speeches . |
| 2 | His family heard him , and as he grew worse , |
| 3 | He was the youngest grandchild , however , and as he grew to be a hulking , noisy ten-year-old , his aging relatives found him very tiring . |
| 4 | Even as a small boy , Thomas had been interested in mechanical toys and as he grew up he determined to become an engineer like our father , who was a regular Royal Engineer . |
| 5 | Jacob was still not the daughter she had set her heart on , but even though he was a male child he was , at least , physically recognisable as her offspring , and as he grew up he displayed artistic tendencies of a kind which she was sure could have flowered in her had she been given the chance . |
| 6 | The times that followed , they were almost as bad … and as he grew older , he became aware of the deep wounds his mother had suffered . |
| 7 | But as he grew older , and felt the signs of decay in his mortal body , he rejoiced to think that his inner man was being renewed every day , until he should attain that ‘ being at home with the Lord ’ to which his whole Christian life was directed and of which he had been given the Holy Spirit as a guarantee ( 2 Cor. 4 : 16f , 5:1ff , 5,8 ) . |
| 8 | As a young don , the friend of J. Maynard ( later Baron ) Keynes , Bertrand ( third Earl ) Russell , G. Lytton Strachey , and Lady Ottoline Morrell [ qq.v. ] , he had been an iconoclast , but as he grew older he preferred the company of the innocent to the clever . |