Example sentences of "i was growing up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not because I wanted to go back to my childhood but because I had a deep , healthy interest in finding out a bit more about what was happening while I was growing up . |
| 2 | I never actually reached puberty , in terms of periods , although I can remember feeling lumps developing in my breasts , and being momentarily shocked before realising that I was growing up . |
| 3 | ‘ She said I was growing up . ’ |
| 4 | All the time I was growing up I had never heard the word ‘ homosexual ’ or even jokes about ‘ queers ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I was influenced by AM radio all the time I was growing up , which was all the great '50s rock'n'roll , and I suppose I would have to include The Beatles in that . |
| 6 | ‘ The music I listened to when I was growing up was mainly what you 'd call the ‘ British new wave invasion ’ — the Buzzcocks , Generation X , early XTC , Elvis Costello . |
| 7 | In the thirties , my father had been a painter and decorator , plumber , electrician , publican and boxer , but when I was growing up , he was a Spiritualist and a faith healer , talking about his negro spirit-guide , Massa , and explaining how he knew when people were cured because he felt burning coals in the palms of his hands . |
| 8 | Says Brian Bovell of the Posse : ‘ I remember when I was growing up in Tottenham in the Sixties , how my mum and dead dealt with potentially scary , racist situations — they found dignity through humour . |
| 9 | I did n't like The Beatles or the Stones until a couple of years ago , 'cos that used to be drummed into me when I was growing up . |
| 10 | Whereas there was a sense of helplessness , politically , when I was growing up , as if all the power was out of our hands . |
| 11 | The principles on which recovery and success have been based are those which , like so many others , I first began to understand for myself when I was growing up and trying to make my own way in the world . |
| 12 | ‘ When I was growing up , I never thought about my looks and I never seem to get used to talking about my features . |
| 13 | WHEN I WAS GROWING UP , the boys I hung around with used to have competitions to see how long they could go without changing their underpants . |
| 14 | I was growing up very quickly . |
| 15 | I had my fill of fucking antiques when I was growing up in Pimlico , and in Trenton , New Jersey . |
| 16 | The wind that blew tin cans along the streets of the dormitory suburb where I was growing up was the same wind that howled round peak and scar and wrested piccolo tunes from the reed patches below the drystone walls . |
| 17 | Aye just when I was growing up it started aye , maybe when or maybe when I was about er ten year old or something . |