Example sentences of "[pron] grow [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking back to those days , I realize how different I should be today had I grown up in the suburban house in London , suggested to my mother . |
| 2 | I grew up in a small mining village on the outskirts of Rotherham during the fifties and sixties . |
| 3 | I grew up in a big way over there . ’ |
| 4 | In Liverpool , where I grew up in the early 1960s , one could no more not have an interest in football than fly to the moon . |
| 5 | ‘ I grew up in the Swinging Sixties , ’ she broke in : ‘ Beatlemania , flower children , magic mushrooms . |
| 6 | ‘ He and I grew up in the same town . |
| 7 | ‘ I grew up in the same street as Alex Maskey , ’ said Mr Blair who also knew SF 's Paddy McManus many years ago . |
| 8 | Lots of firms which grew up in the eighties have collapsed leaving debts unpaid and it 's very hard for the rest of us |
| 9 | You do n't want them to grow up in a sterile environment . |
| 10 | Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ? |
| 11 | Perhaps the most poignant part of her latest novel is the story of Christine , oldest of the sisters , who grows up in the 1950s , and is later described by one of her sisters as ‘ a feminist before her time ’ — which is , as the sister observes , a highly lonely position . |
| 12 | Mr Mukhametshin , a 39-year-old Tatar who grew up in the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan , began in business at 13 when he apprenticed himself to a family of travelling ice-cream makers . |
| 13 | As one who grew up in the Dark Ages and is , as a result , spiritually stunted and psychologically scarred , I regularly find myself cringing at the sight of moaning footballers and speculating , in a twisted fashion , on how much better they might play if all the energy spent on operating the jaws were to be concentrated on getting on with the game . |
| 14 | EVERYONE who grew up in the Sixties has heard of Transcendental Meditation and its founder the Maharishi , the giggling Indian guru who guided the Beatles through their flower power phase . |
| 15 | Parents who grew up in the sixties , when the cult of the teenager first took hold , may still look and feel young and be unready to acknowledge that their children are growing up . |
| 16 | Written in 1962 by tennis star Pat Cash 's late aunt Deirdre Cash , who wrote under the pen-name Criana Rohan , it told the tale of working class urban lovers , who grew up in the harsh environment of Australia in the Fifties . |
| 17 | If you grew up in a certain kind of society , you adopt its values . ’ |
| 18 | Born in Middlesex of an Irish doctor , she grew up in a pleasant and comfortable home in Ireland and was 5 years old when she noticed that her hearing was failing , and by the age of 17 , she was almost totally deaf . |
| 19 | She grew up in a cultured and progressive home atmosphere . |
| 20 | She grew up in the African bush , and came to love the many wild animals as well as the domestic animals on her father 's farm . |
| 21 | Here we grew up in a close-knit , self-sufficient family . |
| 22 | We grew up in a heterosexual culture which banishes positive images of homosexuality . |
| 23 | We grew up in the same turnin' , yer see . |
| 24 | We grew up in the '70s , and that 's what we were told , and then we grew up and all of a sudden they say no , you ca n't do that . |
| 25 | Accommodation and compromise have not characterized the attitudes and actions of the young university-educated activists of the DUP of recent years because they grew up in the zero-sum game , and even if they forgot its rules long enough to consider shifting the DUP 's aims , there is no reason to suppose that the voters would support them in their deviation . |
| 26 | Then , as it grows up in a normal , average temperature , the hotter area of its body — its central trunk region — remains pale in colour , while its cooler extremities become gradually darker . |
| 27 | He grew up in a depressed community and would never forget what he saw there : ‘ I used to watch the wheel of the pit spin round year after year , after school and Saturdays and Sundays ; and then from 1926 on I watched it not turning at all , and I ca n't ever get that wheel out of my mind . ’ |
| 28 | He grew up in a Free Church home in Huddersfield with grace before meals and friends in for hymn singing on Sunday evenings after the service in the Baptist church ; he was a Fabian of long standing ; a cofounder of War on Want ; and his wife was a daughter of a Congregational minister . |
| 29 | Ken Hom was born in Arizona of Chinese parents and he grew up in the Chinese community in Chicago — a creature of two cultures . |
| 30 | He grew up in the public spotlight , never free from prying eyes and press comment , never sure when a trusted friend would betray him , or when a casual remark to a stranger might blow up in his face . |