Example sentences of "[noun] grow [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the wild they spawn in fast-flowing streams , and the fry grow up in the slower reaches of the river . |
| 2 | There are easy comparisons : both have kids growing up in the same neighbourhood . |
| 3 | Even as a child growing up in the Fifties , she and her sister , Marlene , preferred to spend their sixpence pocket money on animal welfare classes run by a local RSPCA inspector rather than go to the cinema . |
| 4 | A polity grew up in the nineteenth century that , through changes of regime , was characterized by its narrow social base and the ‘ exclusion of subordinate classes from any form of participation in the political sphere ’ ( Giner 1985 : 311 ) . |
| 5 | Truth , Dare , Promise : Girls Growing Up in the Fifties ( Virago : 1985 ) |
| 6 | She believes that it is essential that her children grow up in the outside world and not be hidden away in the artificial environment of a royal palace . |
| 7 | Since her infancy Mann , a professional photographer , has documented her three children growing up in the idyllic woodlands of their dream home in south western Virginia . |
| 8 | Children growing up in the 1950s and 1960s were fortunate enough to enjoy the Eagle comic every week . |
| 9 | In response to the massive changes that were taking place throughout Germany a whole series of patriotic clubs and societies grew up in the 1890s . |
| 10 | The bees are significantly more likely to bite half sisters than full sisters , even though all the bees grew up in the same hive ( Nature , vol 302 , p 147 ) . |
| 11 | Their four children grew up in the strict but loving atmosphere of the Medau College founded by Hinrich in Berlin in 1929 . |
| 12 | SINEAD O'Connor grew up in the worst of environments and knows religion causes many of society 's problems . |
| 13 | His work as a paid negotiator caused him to travel through most of New South Wales arbitrating in disputes , taking part in conciliations and talking , talking , talking as industries grew up in the prospering state and workers flooded in from Britain , mostly from Ireland , to claim their share of what were meagre wages . |
| 14 | I know , I know , it 's against all the rules of nature , and we free spirits grew up in the Sixties letting our hair just be , did n't we ? |
| 15 | This market grew up in the 1950s when the local authorities began to raise money for capital projects by issuing bills and bonds , and by raising loans . |