Example sentences of "i [verb] grown [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems of Russia suddenly became topical two years ago at school , and although I 'd grown up with a faint mistrust of ‘ Commies ’ , in 1988 I started writing to Murat , a young Russian . |
| 2 | The attitudes and assumptions I 'd grown up with had been razed to the ground , and a bold new society had risen in their place , a free-enterprise , demand-driven , flaunt-it-and-fuck-you society , dedicated to excellence and achievement . |
| 3 | And more than that , I 'd grown up with divorced parents and I do think kids need a mother and a father . ’ |
| 4 | And now I had a lovely fellow I 'd grown up with in the same village , the same sort of background , we 'd known each other since we were eleven , twelve , |
| 5 | He was a good playmate and he and I enjoyed playing " horses " where one would " drive " the other in turns with string as harness — and he told me years later it was a bitter disappointment to him when I said I 'd grown out of the game . |
| 6 | My sister still lives in Berkhamsted , where she and I had grown up and where she and John had subsequently made their home . |
| 7 | I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’ |
| 8 | In his autobiography A Little Learning ( 1964 ) Waugh was to observe that at the age of sixteen he noticed that his publisher father , ‘ whom I had grown up to accept with complete simplicity ’ , was in fact a highly gifted actor in everything he did . |
| 9 | I had grown up believing that my father had been a great patriot who had died for Ireland , but she told me that Dermot was n't my father , and that my father was someone who hated the Irish and the idea of Irish independence . " |
| 10 | I had grown up with class but it was a shifting , unstable , changing force and you fancied across it regardless , for the world was open . |
| 11 | After all , I had grown up with her and Hindley . |
| 12 | I had grown up in Addis Ababa where there were few permanent buildings other than the Legations . |
| 13 | I 've grown up in it . |
| 14 | I 've grown up , basically . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've grown up , and he 's more helpless , he 's not so powerful and bossy . ’ |
| 16 | I 've grown up hating and loving country music , too ; sometimes you just did n't want it to be there 'cos it was the only thing you 'd hear on the radio in Texas , before rock'n'roll . |
| 17 | Of course , he has his faults , but I 've grown up alongside of him and , I can tell you , he 's a good guy . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 've grown up believing in God . |
| 19 | I 've grown up believing in God . |
| 20 | I 've grown up with this type of regime . |
| 21 | I 've grown up liking it the way it is , with the English art constantly juxtaposed with that from other places . |
| 22 | While I 've grown up in it , it has grown in me . ’ |
| 23 | I 've grown up since I left school . |
| 24 | After my mother died he decided to stay on and make a living hunting , so I 've grown up here with Annamese boys and girls of my own age . |
| 25 | I 've grown up among people who 've always tried to hide passion . |
| 26 | But morally I 've grown up downwards . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've lived here all my life , Mr Wycliffe , and I 've grown up with such tales ; nobody takes them seriously . ’ |
| 28 | He smiles : ‘ I 've grown up a lot and I 'm now enjoying important fights that used to fill me with nerves . |
| 29 | You bullied me into becoming your girlfriend , so I had little choice but to obey , but now I 've grown up . |
| 30 | As I watched them , I thought about all the crazy things the people I 've grown up with believe and do . |