Example sentences of "grow like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canny and careful , the Qataris had watched Abu Dhabi grow like a hot-house flower , but decided themselves to follow the path of the tortoise . |
| 2 | But apparently these fish do have one redeeming feature — they grow like the clappers . |
| 3 | Some are difficult to grow under cultivation because of their natural habitat 's different climatic , soil or aspect requirements , but some grow like the weeds they often are in their native land . |
| 4 | ‘ Maybe one of my words may grow like a seed in his heart one day . ’ |
| 5 | Well that one grows like a claw . |
| 6 | He was growing like a beanshoot and most of the things he had had last summer were too small . |
| 7 | It was a living force , unstoppable , growing like a plant through concrete if it had to , and , however desperately she had tried to trample her love down , it had finally reached the sun and was bathing in that brilliant golden warmth . |
| 8 | I 've got an ambition and it is to grow fat I 'd like to grow like a big fat . |
| 9 | Before the storm broke he fell into a sleep so peaceful and deep that he heard nothing of the thunder crashing overhead or of the rush of waters as the lake filled and spread and crept and grew like a living thing . |
| 10 | She thought of all the wicked things he had done and her anger grew and grew like a dark flower opening inside her . |
| 11 | It has been suggested that the wild man , or wood-wose , who appears so often in medieval literature , is a conventional figure typifying madness and deriving from the mad king Nebuchadnezzar , who was ‘ driven away from among men , and did eat grass like an ox , and his body was wet with the dew of heaven ; till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles , and his nails like birds claws . ’ |