Example sentences of "he [vb past] grow up " in BNC.
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| 1 | He appeared to grow up instantly and became very serious . |
| 2 | He had grown up in a quasi-syndicalist tradition in the Liverpool docks , and his influence in the sixties had been thrown behind the growth of the shop-stewards movement and local plant bargaining on a devolved basis very much on the lines of the 1968 Donovan Report . |
| 3 | Charles had long been interested in architecture — he had grown up with beautiful buildings and visited hundreds more all over the world ; he had read extensively on the subject and , by the very nature of the job , had seen a multitude of buildings , especially in the inner cities , that not only looked ghastly , but that people clearly found ghastly to live in . |
| 4 | All the royal residences have magnificent gardens and he had grown up appreciating them , but they are tended by gardeners : neither the Queen nor the Duke of Edinburgh is interested . |
| 5 | He had grown up with a love of the countryside . |
| 6 | ( Only now do I realize how strong the desire in her for a daughter must have been to cause her to dress her youngest son as a little girl almost until the day he went to school , his fair hair nearly reaching his waist ; yet he had grown up a man . ) |
| 7 | At a later time it was even decreed that should there be no male ( in particular a father ) available to sever the foreskin and make the blood flow , then the child should wait until he had grown up and then perform the operation himself . |
| 8 | I felt that we might be able to establish peace by other means until he had grown up and become more readily identifiable as top dog by Stan . |
| 9 | Maybe he had grown up without ever realising it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Helping to save life was an idea he felt he had grown up with . |
| 12 | Spencer had been spoiled , treated for far too long as a baby and he had grown up knowing how to twist his mother around his little finger . |
| 13 | By temperament and experience he was equipped to deal with the race of Men , and as a native of Lothern he had grown up with an understanding of the worth of trade and a tolerant cosmopolitan outlook on the world . |
| 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 | He had grown up living in a web of deceit , he was used to his mother 's machinations , had grown accustomed to her lies . |
| 16 | He had grown up with the impression that women 's motives were suspect , and so when Tom Rooney had given him advice he had found it so easy to believe , because it was what — subconsciously — he expected . |
| 17 | This district , with its decaying tenements , its cobbled streets shattered and stinking , the pervasive odour of massed humanity , and their filth , reminded him with almost terrifying clarity of the wharves where he had grown up . |
| 18 | He had grown up in Weston-super-Mare and had been working in local radio in Bristol before joining us in the mid 1970s . |
| 19 | A mechanical response with which he had grown up , natural as breathing . |
| 20 | The discipline of a police state was what he had grown up with , what suited his talents best . |
| 21 | But to despatch a victim in the dark , while he was sleeping , was not a method of attack or survival understood by Dulé or the people among whom he had grown up . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He said it was not easy to come to Cork with a favourite 's tag and play against a posse of cuemen he had grown up with and played so often in amateur competition . |
| 24 | Baby Jesus was real poor , so he had to grow up on a farm and that , and when he got bigger he went round with some friends telling everyone about God , and then he died . |