Example sentences of "[pers pn] grow [adv prt] in the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I grew up in the Swinging Sixties , ’ she broke in : ‘ Beatlemania , flower children , magic mushrooms . |
| 4 | ‘ He and I grew up in the same town . |
| 5 | ‘ I grew up in the same street as Alex Maskey , ’ said Mr Blair who also knew SF 's Paddy McManus many years ago . |
| 6 | Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We grew up in the same turnin' , yer see . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Ken Hom was born in Arizona of Chinese parents and he grew up in the Chinese community in Chicago — a creature of two cultures . |
| 12 | 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 . |