Example sentences of "grew up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their four children , two sons and two daughters , grew up at Vine House : each in his or her own way has become a gardener . |
| 2 | In pensive vein he had published ‘ an early warning ’ in The Favourite Game against those who would follow ‘ our future leaders , the war babies ’ ; for the simple reason that while the world convulsed in its madness and death-throes , ‘ we grew up with toy whips , ’ ‘ games ’ played by old and young alike . |
| 3 | Former Ulster half-backs Ashley Armstrong and Annsley Harrison have teamed up again to renew their dalliance with the game they grew up with back at Methodist College . |
| 4 | While most Pacific islanders grew up with radio and print media , television and video are new to almost everyone . |
| 5 | They react to them in that way because automatically some of them do n't come from a background in which they grew up with father figures and another thing is they ca n't live up to the expectations of a lot of black women , so it makes them feel lesser . |
| 6 | This lot grew up on TV |
| 7 | The new generation grew up on TV ( literally in Howard 's case — before Richie Cunningham he played a kid on the Fifties TV show Leave It To Beaver ) . |
| 8 | Some grew up on river crossings , at water-holes on the westward trails , and a remarkable number — Matson included — on the railroads or , thanks to founding fathers with a keen eye for land values , where they deduced the railroads must come . |
| 9 | It 's my humble belief you only did it to hurt me , oh yes , spit on the bourgeois , épater the middleclass , oh aye , get your own back on Mr Grant and me for our fitted carpets and crinoline toiletroll covers when you grew up on berr linoleum in a singelenn' in Bridgeton . |
| 10 | ‘ I grew up on clay courts in my hometown of Diezma-Gradada . |
| 11 | Paul Arkwright 's sons grew up without brilliance . |
| 12 | The girl grew up without love . ’ |
| 13 | So the same kind of stark opposition grew up between orthodoxy and rationalism on the matter of miracles as on the authority of the Bible ; and the issues raised then have surfaced again in a number of forms since . |
| 14 | We went youth hostelling for m the sort of the chapel choir , after When you grew up in chapel , then you were either found a job teaching , in the Sunday School , or you went into the choir . |
| 15 | Born in 1911 , James Kelly grew up in West Belfast and caught the journalism bug early . |
| 16 | " You could say I grew up in service — and so it seemed almost natural that Sarah and I should go into service . " |
| 17 | As the fable continues , it tells of family visits to York and Malham and of how the child grew up in understanding of many things . |
| 18 | An important example is George Crabbe , who grew up in poverty but eventually became a priest ; although his poetry is deeply informed by the experience of poverty , he is alienated in many respects from the class into which he was born . |
| 19 | Side by side with the suspicion that Masailand somehow emasculated its administrators , there grew up in East Africa a conviction that the proud Masai could be successfully handled only by the finest type of Englishman , whose qualities of honesty and good judgement they instinctively recognized and respected . |
| 20 | Wilson grew up in rowing , rather than the Boat Race , having been born at Henley . |
| 21 | As a result a form of class and , most notably , racial job reservation grew up in railway employment . |
| 22 | The democratic parties that grew up in opposition to the military rule earlier this century kept the tradition of authoritarianism in their internal structure . |
| 23 | The architects who designed the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus were , moreover , Knossians ; Khersifron and his son Metagenis grew up within sight of the Knossos Labyrinth 's crumbling walls . |