Example sentences of "had been growing in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was in high spirits ; the idea which had been growing in her with increasing , undeniable force was now going to become a reality . |
| 2 | ‘ What she did n't say and was too embarrassed to talk about was an uncanny feeling that she had only recently become aware of , but now realised had been growing in her ever since she had set foot on Titron . |
| 3 | Such conclusions had been growing in force in American higher education for many years , and especially since the investigation carried out by Harvie Branscomb , librarian of Duke University , in the later 19305 at the request of the Association of American Colleges . |
| 4 | As his sword went back for his final sweep the sullen glow that had been growing in the doorway of the Broken Drum flickered , dimmed , and erupted into a roaring fireball that sent the walls billowing outward and carried the roof a hundred feet into the air before bursting through it , in a gout of red-hot tiles . |
| 5 | Unrest had been growing in the Transylvanian region ever since December 1989 when the new National Salvation Front ( NSF ) government had reached an agreement with the Hungarian government to restore ethnic and cultural rights denied to the Hungarian community of 2,000,000 people by the former regime of Nicolae Ceausescu . |
| 6 | He sang a few bars of it in a lusty baritone that filled the darkness , and oddly enough dispelled some of the tension that had been growing in her . |
| 7 | There was a throbbing urgency developing in the way they touched , a desperation in their kisses ; the yearning for fulfilment that had been growing in her since this man had first taken her was now a scream deep inside her , aching for him , crying for him , sobbing for him . |