Example sentences of "[Wh pn] grow [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |