Example sentences of "grow up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The canes , which grow up to 5ft tall , are bright green to purplish in colour . |
| 2 | It reminded me of when I was a teacher and watched one of my pupils , Dan Waterman , grow up to be a fireman . |
| 3 | ‘ Smooth Angel ’ , white with a pink flush and the pink ‘ Smooth Lady ’ , grow up to 1.5m , while the magenta rose ‘ Smooth Velvet ’ reaches about 1.2m . |
| 4 | The best wines are made from the highest vines northwest of Grauves , which grow up to a height of 220 metres , and from those in an east-facing gulley , south-west of the village . |
| 5 | Unless they see through the game , such children grow up to be victims and martyrs themselves . |
| 6 | The branching stems grow up to about 24ins ( 60cms ) in length . |
| 7 | They grow up to 3ins ( 7½cms ) in length and up to 3/4 inch ( 2cms ) in width . |
| 8 | Parents have such high hopes for their offspring and then they grow up to be a big disappointment . |
| 9 | I have come to suspect that the underlying motive to help younger people grow up to be confident , competent adults , and to derive pleasure from doing so , is something that a person can bury , ignore or conceal , but not amputate . |
| 10 | These attractive plants grow up to 2ft tall and have lilac blue flowers with the petals on the circumference much larger than those in the centre . |
| 11 | Even a formerly nomadic group , the Paumari in Amazonia grow 14 cultivars of the easily transported cassava and some other groups there grow up to 400 different types of plants ( cultivars as well as cultigens ) ; some clear fell the forest , others merely ‘ weed ’ it . |
| 12 | A sense of responsibility in the children that we help , that they all grow up to be responsible adults . |