Example sentences of "grew [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I grew up in a house where the smells of preparation and cooking began , below stairs , not long after I rose . |
| 2 | Irish Catholics in Glasgow grew up in a similarly hostile environment . |
| 3 | Amaldi grew up in a small town in Lombardy , and took his doctorate in physics from Rome at the remarkably early age of 21 . |
| 4 | Again like Donald White , young Arsenio grew up in a houseful of women , living with his mother and grandmother . |
| 5 | Kinnock , born in 1942 , grew up in a South Wales scarred by memories of the Depression but recovering from its reality . |
| 6 | Kinnock grew up in a society in which it was natural to be Labour and which Labour controlled . |
| 7 | I know , I grew up in a village . ’ |
| 8 | They contributed because on the one hand , they were asked and understood that what they had to say was important , and also because too many of them grew up in a world without such books . |
| 9 | We grew up in a world of chainstore high fashion , middle-of-the-road revolution , cover-version original pop music . |
| 10 | One of my own patients grew up in a loving family where it was assumed that he would eventually study law — just like his grandfather , his father and his uncle . |
| 11 | Men and women who are now in their forties and fifties grew up in a society that had been first shocked , then revolutionized by the ‘ revelations ’ of American sex researcher Alfred Kinsey . |
| 12 | Born in Middlesex of an Irish doctor , she grew up in a pleasant and comfortable home in Ireland and was 5 years old when she noticed that her hearing was failing , and by the age of 17 , she was almost totally deaf . |
| 13 | I grew up in a big way over there . ’ |
| 14 | We grew up in a heterosexual culture which banishes positive images of homosexuality . |
| 15 | She had been a battered baby , grew up in a succession of foster homes , and then married a man who regularly beat her up . |
| 16 | Matthew grew up in a family atmosphere of sweetness and light . |
| 17 | Her mother was William Godwin 's second wife , and Clairmont grew up in a free-thinking household with her brother , illegitimate like herself , with Mary Wollstonecraft 's daughter by Godwin — another Mary of Clairmont 's age — and with Fanny , Wollstonecraft 's older illegitimate daughter . |
| 18 | As we have seen in the section on Education , Wordsworth grew up in a mathematical and scientific age , which still adhered to principles discovered in the seventeenth century . |
| 19 | If you grew up in a society which is strange to me , I have first of all to acknowledge that its customary approvals and condemnations are as spontaneous in you as are your more personal reactions . |
| 20 | He grew up in a Free Church home in Huddersfield with grace before meals and friends in for hymn singing on Sunday evenings after the service in the Baptist church ; he was a Fabian of long standing ; a cofounder of War on Want ; and his wife was a daughter of a Congregational minister . |
| 21 | But 31-year-old Damon Wayans grew up in a household where the unremitting rule was get funny or get ignored . |
| 22 | The press in English-speaking West Africa grew up in a nationalist tradition : newspapers were the mouthpieces of emerging , campaigning , nationalist politicians . |
| 23 | I grew up in a small mining village on the outskirts of Rotherham during the fifties and sixties . |
| 24 | He grew up in a San Jose barrio called Sal si Puedes ( get out if you can ) ; Mexican-Americans were treated as faceless serfs . |
| 25 | He grew up in a world of feud and betrayal , the hedgerow ambush on the country road , the British officers or agents in their rooms , given two minutes to say their prayers and then ‘ plugged ’ through the sheets and blankets of the beds in which they lay . |
| 26 | I am a native of South Shields and grew up in a locality which has much in common with its other half . |
| 27 | Unlike those others he grew up in a colony where higher education was still in its infancy . |
| 28 | Once upon a time , long before fatwas and ayatollahs , the daughter of a shazdeh , or prince , grew up in a Tehran harem . |
| 29 | She grew up in a cultured and progressive home atmosphere . |
| 30 | He grew up in a depressed community and would never forget what he saw there : ‘ I used to watch the wheel of the pit spin round year after year , after school and Saturdays and Sundays ; and then from 1926 on I watched it not turning at all , and I ca n't ever get that wheel out of my mind . ’ |