Example sentences of "grew up in [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Born in 1911 , James Kelly grew up in West Belfast and caught the journalism bug early .
3 " You could say I grew up in service — and so it seemed almost natural that Sarah and I should go into service . "
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Wilson grew up in rowing , rather than the Boat Race , having been born at Henley .
8 As a result a form of class and , most notably , racial job reservation grew up in railway employment .
9 The democratic parties that grew up in opposition to the military rule earlier this century kept the tradition of authoritarianism in their internal structure .
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