Example sentences of "grown [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , while it is possible to identify liberal catholicism in Ireland from the late nineteenth century to the present , and though there has grown up a climate of liberal dissent and criticism of conservative catholicism , it is still possible to assert the prominence of conservative catholicism , particularly in its alliance with nationalism . |
| 2 | ( Only now do I realize how strong the desire in her for a daughter must have been to cause her to dress her youngest son as a little girl almost until the day he went to school , his fair hair nearly reaching his waist ; yet he had grown up a man . ) |
| 3 | There has grown up a folk belief that recurrent thrush is completely untreatable . |
| 4 | She 's grown up a lot lately . |
| 5 | Before papa died she had been a child , spoiled and cosseted and it was a pity she had not grown up a bit more quickly . |
| 6 | Well , we had to make a better road through the forest , although I see through the window that it 's grown up a bit recently . |
| 7 | God , but she had grown up a lot since then . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'd both grown up a bit , that 's all . |
| 9 | Nona 'd grown up a lot in New York . ’ |
| 10 | He smiles : ‘ I 've grown up a lot and I 'm now enjoying important fights that used to fill me with nerves . |
| 11 | Having grown up a northerner , I make no apologies for saying that I do not regard myself as a southerner who happens to live a few miles up the road . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've grown up a lot in the last two years , ’ she said quietly and I silently agreed with her . |
| 13 | I think perhaps you 've grown up a little tonight . |
| 14 | Thus there has grown up an interest in feminist ‘ herstory ’ ; etymologically impossible , the word emphasizes that his-story has been just that — the history of men . |
| 15 | During this period there has also grown up an international community of people interested in gender in mathematics and/or science and/or technology . |
| 16 | Although he later affected contempt for the poor , Walters had grown up the son of a working-class Leicestershire Communist . |