Example sentences of "[verb] grow up in the " in BNC.
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1 | He describes growing up in the village of the Kxinawa Indians by the Parauaca River , listening to tales of the massacres which marked the occupation of Acre a century ago at the height of the rubber boom . |
2 | Ah , women 's tradition that eh , seems to have grown up in the workplace , or maybe it 's it er , nested outside the workplace originally , is er , when a bride gets dressed up , we must all be familiar with that er , when she 's going to get married and carries a chanty round about to make a collection |
3 | Such a proposal is now of another era , however , and I was present when an ex-Dean of Academic Studies at the college presented a paper ( Stead 1980 ) attacking the trend to expensive , amalgamated police units which had grown up in the previous two decades . |
4 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
5 | There had grown up in the Commandos a tradition that to be a tough regiment it was necessary to act tough all the time in the barracks and on leave , and they were liable to be badly dressed , ill disciplined and noisy in the streets and restaurants of Cairo . |
6 | They had grown up in the same house since they were babies and were virtually inseparable . |
7 | The intellectual and emotional leader of that original collective was Fred Newman , a Korean war veteran , who had grown up in the Bronx , held a PhD in the philosophy of science from Stanford and abruptly turned to Marxism in the mid-1960s . |
8 | He had grown up in the splendid sixties , had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth , enjoyed whatever he did to the hilt and was enough of a gentleman never to look back . |
9 | Out of habit the Brigadier treated everybody as though they were local National Service boys who had grown up in the village and so knew every blade of grass as well as he did but who might be a bit hazy about certain family backgrounds and about things that had happened before their time . |
10 | He had grown up in the slums of Harlem and had been a promising middleweight fighter in the late fifties before the lure of alcohol had devastated his career . |
11 | Patrick had grown up in the Dublin that his mother now worked so hard to forget . |
12 | Donald Wilson was very much of the BBC 's ‘ old school ’ which had grown up in the wake of Lord Reith . |
13 | Probably the best-known , and perhaps the most notorious , selected settlement policy is that adopted in County Durham , where there were special difficulties in planning for the dispersed villages that had grown up in the coalfield ( Barr 1969 ; Blowers 1972 ) . |
14 | Round it a prolific jungle of weeds had grown up in the otherwise bare yard . |
15 | Thomas had grown up in the neighborhood of the machine and one day he had bought it , bringing it to England by boat and vaguely intending to explore the possibility of supplying a spring though he also liked it well as it still was . |
16 | He respected Marshal Tolonen greatly ; had grown up in the shadow of the old man . |
17 | These somewhat standard indictments nevertheless came from a scholar who had grown up in the York school under Archbishop Ecgberht and gained maturity in the household of Archbishop Aethelberht as master of the school until he joined the court of Charlemagne in the early 780s . |
18 | Fei was not a native of the community that he studied ( the village of Kaihsienkung , in the Yangtze Delta , about 1 25 miles south-west of Shanghai ) , but he had grown up in the same district so that he was familiar with the nuances of the local dialect . |
19 | Essentially , there had grown up in the 1930s a system of subsidies which enabled milk to be bought cheaply by local education authorities for distribution ( free or at minimal cost ) to children . |
20 | Cara had grown up in the country too of course , but would n't walk anywhere if she could avoid it . |
21 | She pitied him , and said , smiling gently : ‘ No , you have grown up in the years you 've had my old garage , and you are very much a young man . ’ |