Example sentences of "[pers pn] grew up in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You could say I grew up in service — and so it seemed almost natural that Sarah and I should go into service . " |
| 2 | ‘ I grew up in hotels , ’ she told him . |
| 3 | ‘ I grew up in London nightlife , ’ says Q , hiding fashion model good looks behind a disconcerting pair of wooden wraparound shades . |
| 4 | I grew up in Harlesden . |
| 5 | There are no colours — it kinda bugs me out , I just feel so f—ing glad , so incredibly lucky , that I grew up in America . |
| 6 | I grew up in Liverpool , you see , back in the twenties , and the filth and the smoke and the poverty , I mean the grinding poverty , especially among the Irish in Liverpool , you do n't see that today . |
| 7 | He plays golf , I grew up in Bearsden . |
| 8 | But it 's fine for me because really I grew up in Tembisa and I still know many people there . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I grew up in Marlott . |
| 10 | As I grew up in Kensal Green — which is just up the road from Ladbroke Grove — it became one of the areas the first wave of black immigrants came to . |
| 11 | I grew up in Lewisham , South East London , and it was awful because Dad was a bricklayer , and if the weather was bad , he did n't work . |
| 12 | ‘ I grew up in Batavia , Illinois , which is where I still live and work . |
| 13 | ‘ I grew up in Australia , and when I was about fourteen I saw a guitar and that was it : I just fell in love , just totally obsessed . |
| 14 | We went youth hostelling for m the sort of the chapel choir , after When you grew up in chapel , then you were either found a job teaching , in the Sunday School , or you went into the choir . |
| 15 | ‘ And you grew up in Hong Kong ? ’ she persisted , refusing to be deterred . |
| 16 | While still a baby , she often slept in a cot at his erotic theatre and she grew up in Soho . |
| 17 | She grew up in Chicago listening to Chaka Khan . |
| 18 | He grew up in Rutland ( now Leicestershire ) and after collecting a photography ‘ O ’ level , went on to do a furniture design course , ‘ because I just wanted to get to London ’ . |
| 19 | He grew up in Rutland ( now Leicestershire ) and after collecting a photography ‘ O ’ level , went on to do a furniture design course , ‘ because I just wanted to get to London ’ . |
| 20 | He grew up in Holland until at the age of I3 he was sent to live with his uncle , Henri Curiel , in Egypt , where he studied at the English school . |
| 21 | He grew up in New York listening to disco — McFadden And Whitehead , Evelyn Champagne King — then moved to the wealthy suburb of Belleville , 40 minutes out of Detroit , where he teamed up with May and Atkins and started listening to Kraftwerk . |
| 22 | Born of parents who mixed three heritages between them African , Hispanic and Chinese he grew up in Cuba and subsequently went on to live in Spain , Italy , Mexico and the United States , stopping long enough in France in the late Thirties to be bouleversé by Surrealism , and by Picasso 's ‘ Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ’ in particular . |