Example sentences of "[pers pn] grow [adv prt] in the " 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 the Swinging Sixties , ’ she broke in : ‘ Beatlemania , flower children , magic mushrooms . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't use drugs myself , but I grew up in the South Bronx where heroin use was all around me . |
| 4 | ‘ He and I grew up in the same town . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps not , but , as I already told you , I grew up in the business , ’ she returned hotly . |
| 8 | ‘ I grew up in the country , ’ she murmured , not sure why she had told him that because it had no bearing on the subject . |
| 9 | ‘ I grew up in the same street as Alex Maskey , ’ said Mr Blair who also knew SF 's Paddy McManus many years ago . |
| 10 | Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ? |
| 11 | You grew up in the countryside and you could n't wait to get away from it ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She grew up in the area , most recently living in Northallerton where she worked for North Yorkshire county council . |
| 15 | She grew up in the north-east of England and graduated from Somerville College , Oxford , with first-class honours in modern history . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We grew up in the same turnin' , yer see . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He grew up in the capital Pretoria , a city with jacarandas , bureaucrats , uniforms . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Ken Hom was born in Arizona of Chinese parents and he grew up in the Chinese community in Chicago — a creature of two cultures . |