Example sentences of "grow [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their elders make it upstairs in the flats , attended by small children — brothers and sisters who grow up in the Gorbals , Glasser says , to try it with each other . |
| 2 | Out of habit the Brigadier treated everybody as though they were local National Service boys who had grown up in the village and so knew every blade of grass as well as he did but who might be a bit hazy about certain family backgrounds and about things that had happened before their time . |
| 3 | Cara had grown up in the country too of course , but would n't walk anywhere if she could avoid it . |
| 4 | He had grown up in the slums of Harlem and had been a promising middleweight fighter in the late fifties before the lure of alcohol had devastated his career . |
| 5 | There had grown up in the Commandos a tradition that to be a tough regiment it was necessary to act tough all the time in the barracks and on leave , and they were liable to be badly dressed , ill disciplined and noisy in the streets and restaurants of Cairo . |
| 6 | Ah , women 's tradition that eh , seems to have grown up in the workplace , or maybe it 's it er , nested outside the workplace originally , is er , when a bride gets dressed up , we must all be familiar with that er , when she 's going to get married and carries a chanty round about to make a collection |
| 7 | Donald Wilson was very much of the BBC 's ‘ old school ’ which had grown up in the wake of Lord Reith . |
| 8 | The intellectual and emotional leader of that original collective was Fred Newman , a Korean war veteran , who had grown up in the Bronx , held a PhD in the philosophy of science from Stanford and abruptly turned to Marxism in the mid-1960s . |
| 9 | These somewhat standard indictments nevertheless came from a scholar who had grown up in the York school under Archbishop Ecgberht and gained maturity in the household of Archbishop Aethelberht as master of the school until he joined the court of Charlemagne in the early 780s . |
| 10 | The founding fathers of capitalist enterprise in south-western Germany were not always rich , but the number of those with long family experience in business , and often in the industries they were to develop , is significant : Swiss-Alsatian Protestants like the Koechlin , Geigy or Sarrasin , Jews grown up in the finance of small princelings , rather than technically innovating craftsmen-entrepreneurs . |
| 11 | She pitied him , and said , smiling gently : ‘ No , you have grown up in the years you 've had my old garage , and you are very much a young man . ’ |
| 12 | Thomas had grown up in the neighborhood of the machine and one day he had bought it , bringing it to England by boat and vaguely intending to explore the possibility of supplying a spring though he also liked it well as it still was . |
| 13 | Probably the best-known , and perhaps the most notorious , selected settlement policy is that adopted in County Durham , where there were special difficulties in planning for the dispersed villages that had grown up in the coalfield ( Barr 1969 ; Blowers 1972 ) . |
| 14 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 15 | He was an unhappy personality , who had obviously grown up in the shadow of his father and had decided that the assumption of a totally aggressive demeanour was the only way of maintaining a personality of his own that would be distinct from that of his famous , indeed most famous — parent . |
| 16 | He respected Marshal Tolonen greatly ; had grown up in the shadow of the old man . |
| 17 | Patrick had grown up in the Dublin that his mother now worked so hard to forget . |
| 18 | The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures — Growing up in the universe : Each afternoon from 30 December to 3 January . |
| 19 | He describes growing up in the village of the Kxinawa Indians by the Parauaca River , listening to tales of the massacres which marked the occupation of Acre a century ago at the height of the rubber boom . |
| 20 | They 're growing up in the village . |
| 21 | RONALD Fraser 's In Search of a Past was published in 1984 , and Ralph Glasser 's Growing up in the Gorbals in 1986 . |
| 22 | Michael Holly was an unremarkable boy growing up in the suburbs of south-west London . |
| 23 | Unlike many groups , The Wedding Present largely avoided the dubious pleasure of growing up in the public eye . |
| 24 | Only children growing up in the lap of luxury |
| 25 | When Bill was growing up in the Durham of the 1930s , memories of the Great Strike of 1926 were still sharp and vivid among the mining community . |
| 26 | Growing up in the Melbourne suburbs was , says Kylie , happy , safe and secure . |
| 27 | Young People : growing up in the Welfare State |
| 28 | But Messager knows that the best fairytales are about girls growing up in the danger of domestica . |
| 29 | I see not the slightest prospect with the scale of introduction of these alien wedges into the population of our cities , of a community attitude growing up in the future . |
| 30 | Growing up in the shadow of Olivier had already left its mark on Richard professionally . |