Example sentences of "grow [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their elders make it upstairs in the flats , attended by small children — brothers and sisters who grow up in the Gorbals , Glasser says , to try it with each other . |
| 2 | In the wild they spawn in fast-flowing streams , and the fry grow up in the slower reaches of the river . |
| 3 | She believes that it is essential that her children grow up in the outside world and not be hidden away in the artificial environment of a royal palace . |
| 4 | Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ? |
| 5 | Such a proposal is now of another era , however , and I was present when an ex-Dean of Academic Studies at the college presented a paper ( Stead 1980 ) attacking the trend to expensive , amalgamated police units which had grown up in the previous two decades . |
| 6 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 7 | Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( below left ) consists of thousands of coral islands , stretched along the entire coast of Queensland ; yet it has all grown up in the past 9000 years . |
| 8 | There had grown up in the Commandos a tradition that to be a tough regiment it was necessary to act tough all the time in the barracks and on leave , and they were liable to be badly dressed , ill disciplined and noisy in the streets and restaurants of Cairo . |
| 9 | They had grown up in the same house since they were babies and were virtually inseparable . |
| 10 | The intellectual and emotional leader of that original collective was Fred Newman , a Korean war veteran , who had grown up in the Bronx , held a PhD in the philosophy of science from Stanford and abruptly turned to Marxism in the mid-1960s . |
| 11 | He had grown up in the splendid sixties , had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth , enjoyed whatever he did to the hilt and was enough of a gentleman never to look back . |
| 12 | She pitied him , and said , smiling gently : ‘ No , you have grown up in the years you 've had my old garage , and you are very much a young man . ’ |
| 13 | Out of habit the Brigadier treated everybody as though they were local National Service boys who had grown up in the village and so knew every blade of grass as well as he did but who might be a bit hazy about certain family backgrounds and about things that had happened before their time . |
| 14 | He had grown up in the slums of Harlem and had been a promising middleweight fighter in the late fifties before the lure of alcohol had devastated his career . |
| 15 | Patrick had grown up in the Dublin that his mother now worked so hard to forget . |
| 16 | Donald Wilson was very much of the BBC 's ‘ old school ’ which had grown up in the wake of Lord Reith . |
| 17 | Probably the best-known , and perhaps the most notorious , selected settlement policy is that adopted in County Durham , where there were special difficulties in planning for the dispersed villages that had grown up in the coalfield ( Barr 1969 ; Blowers 1972 ) . |
| 18 | Round it a prolific jungle of weeds had grown up in the otherwise bare yard . |
| 19 | Ah , women 's tradition that eh , seems to have grown up in the workplace , or maybe it 's it er , nested outside the workplace originally , is er , when a bride gets dressed up , we must all be familiar with that er , when she 's going to get married and carries a chanty round about to make a collection |
| 20 | But it is equally true that there is no way of foreseeing the health status of the very elderly of 2010 or 2022 ; people grown up in the historically exceptionally prosperous period since World War Two may have very different health expectations than those currently aged over 75 who were born before 1911 in a very different environment from the present . |
| 21 | He was an unhappy personality , who had obviously grown up in the shadow of his father and had decided that the assumption of a totally aggressive demeanour was the only way of maintaining a personality of his own that would be distinct from that of his famous , indeed most famous — parent . |
| 22 | Thomas had grown up in the neighborhood of the machine and one day he had bought it , bringing it to England by boat and vaguely intending to explore the possibility of supplying a spring though he also liked it well as it still was . |
| 23 | He respected Marshal Tolonen greatly ; had grown up in the shadow of the old man . |
| 24 | These somewhat standard indictments nevertheless came from a scholar who had grown up in the York school under Archbishop Ecgberht and gained maturity in the household of Archbishop Aethelberht as master of the school until he joined the court of Charlemagne in the early 780s . |
| 25 | Thinking back to those days , I realize how different I should be today had I grown up in the suburban house in London , suggested to my mother . |
| 26 | Fei was not a native of the community that he studied ( the village of Kaihsienkung , in the Yangtze Delta , about 1 25 miles south-west of Shanghai ) , but he had grown up in the same district so that he was familiar with the nuances of the local dialect . |
| 27 | Essentially , there had grown up in the 1930s a system of subsidies which enabled milk to be bought cheaply by local education authorities for distribution ( free or at minimal cost ) to children . |
| 28 | The founding fathers of capitalist enterprise in south-western Germany were not always rich , but the number of those with long family experience in business , and often in the industries they were to develop , is significant : Swiss-Alsatian Protestants like the Koechlin , Geigy or Sarrasin , Jews grown up in the finance of small princelings , rather than technically innovating craftsmen-entrepreneurs . |
| 29 | Cara had grown up in the country too of course , but would n't walk anywhere if she could avoid it . |
| 30 | He remembers his lonely school days , in assured manner that his son will not grow up in the same way . |