Example sentences of "[pron] grew up in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't use drugs myself , but I grew up in the South Bronx where heroin use was all around me . |
| 2 | I had a bit of an interest in gardens because I grew up in the country at Drewsteignton , but I always think I was very lucky to get that job at Castle Drogo — straight in as a single-handed gardener with no experience . |
| 3 | ‘ I grew up in the country , ’ she murmured , not sure why she had told him that because it had no bearing on the subject . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps not , but , as I already told you , I grew up in the business , ’ she returned hotly . |
| 5 | It may also have acted as a service centre for the nearby imperial estate centred on Combe Down and for the numerous rich villas which grew up in the vicinity . |
| 6 | " It caused a little social outing in my family , " said a pitman 's daughter who grew up in the South Yorkshire pit village where her father worked . |
| 7 | Jack ‘ Kid ’ Berg , who grew up in the East End ghetto , fought his way up from the streets to a world welterweight title in the tradition of oppressed racial minorities . |
| 8 | Miss Young , above , who grew up in the south of France , earned pocket money as an extra in her father 's films . |
| 9 | If you grew up in the Bill and Ben age then you might be a little confused by the exhuberance of the Sesame Street characters but if you 're under 30 , a long way under 30 , you 'll know Purple Honker , Telemonster , Elmo , Grover and Cookie Monster pretty well . |
| 10 | You grew up in the countryside and you could n't wait to get away from it ! |
| 11 | She grew up in the area , most recently living in Northallerton where she worked for North Yorkshire county council . |
| 12 | She grew up in the north-east of England and graduated from Somerville College , Oxford , with first-class honours in modern history . |
| 13 | He grew up in the capital Pretoria , a city with jacarandas , bureaucrats , uniforms . |
| 14 | Of the rest , some were already leaving Ottery to begin their careers by the time Coleridge 's own memories began , and he grew up in the schoolmaster 's house chiefly among the younger family members who remained . |
| 15 | Stoker had a poorly childhood in Dublin , and he grew up in the city of Sheridan Le Fanu who took opium and drank green tea , and wrote a truly dreadful tale about a lamia by name of Carmilla , who , as lamias often do , set out to suck the blood from a virginal girl called Laura . |