Example sentences of "grew up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The little girl grew up at Tara , ’ said Raynor . |
| 2 | Of the children , only Emma really grew up at Rhydoldog , although the others came back at weekends . |
| 3 | Their four children , two sons and two daughters , grew up at Vine House : each in his or her own way has become a gardener . |
| 4 | Beginning by a fantastic attempt to construct pedigrees where sons were their own fathers , I became gradually so involved that I remember wondering if God the Father were in truth only the child that grew up into Jesus Christ . |
| 5 | Another tradition which grew up about Abyssinia was the European belief in the country 's legendary priest-king , Prester John . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I grew up with Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw , and we three played together as children . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And the 25-year-old defender , who moved to Boundary Park along with Neil Pointon in the deal that took Rick Holden to Maine Road admitted : ‘ I grew up with Manchester City but in the end I hated getting out of bed in the morning to go to work . ’ |
| 10 | I grew up with gangs , we 've had gangs in South Central LA since the beginning , but there was not as many people killing each other . ’ |
| 11 | While most Pacific islanders grew up with radio and print media , television and video are new to almost everyone . |
| 12 | One of a family of six and me elder brother was me bro me dad had a little business in the keys in and er they were hard times and me elder brother we used to go and work for him because me dad said he must and er from , after school I used to go and perhaps do the errands or a bit of filing , the odd jobs and all that sort of thing and I grew up with locks and keys and files from twelve , even before I left school . |
| 13 | Now she spends more time at her aunt 's house than at her own home nearby , as she did when she grew up with Suzanne . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | L7 's Donita and Jennifer grew up with bands like Motorhead and The Ramones as role models , but agree that women definitely have better role models now . |
| 16 | This lot grew up on TV |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | I was introduced to Punch at the age of 12 , grew up on Basil Boothroyd and have relied on my weekly ‘ fix ’ to get me through life 's crises over the past 47 years — including moving house six times , several bereavements , liquidation ( yes , me too ! ! ) , my daughter 's attempted suicide and my recent divorce . |
| 19 | I grew up on movies and have always believed that if cameras had been invented before Ur and Og first trod the stone age boards then no one would ever have bothered to invent plays , they would have just leapt straight into the cinema . |
| 20 | Scorsese and Coppola grew up on movies . |
| 21 | Spielberg , Scorsese , Coppola and the rest grew up on movies . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I grew up on Jock of the Bushveld , that marvellous book by Sir Perry Fitzpatrick about hunting in South Africa . |
| 25 | ‘ I grew up on clay courts in my hometown of Diezma-Gradada . |
| 26 | The elder daughter ( there were no sons ) of William Frederick Collings , twenty-first seigneur of Sark , and his Canadian wife , Sophia Wallace ( daughter of George Moffat of Montreal ) , she grew up on Sark to become a lively , intelligent , and headstrong young woman , encouraged by her eccentric father to ignore her congenital lameness and follow many physically demanding pursuits . |
| 27 | Paul Arkwright 's sons grew up without brilliance . |
| 28 | The girl grew up without love . ’ |
| 29 | He had started at the back of the good book and was perversely working his way towards Genesis , which meant that his eldest daughter was called Revelation Straker ; a young woman as pretty as her name , and as happy as all the other children who grew up under Bonefish 's skinny care . |
| 30 | The ideology of the enterprise culture through society has penetrated to a considerable degree to the young who grew up under Thatcher — ‘ Thatcher 's children ’ . |