Example sentences of "grow [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Cara had grown up in the country too of course , but would n't walk anywhere if she could avoid it . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Donald Wilson was very much of the BBC 's ‘ old school ’ which had grown up in the wake of Lord Reith . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He respected Marshal Tolonen greatly ; had grown up in the shadow of the old man . |
| 11 | The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures — Growing up in the universe : Each afternoon from 30 December to 3 January . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They 're growing up in the village . |
| 14 | Unlike many groups , The Wedding Present largely avoided the dubious pleasure of growing up in the public eye . |
| 15 | Only children growing up in the lap of luxury |
| 16 | Young People : growing up in the Welfare State |
| 17 | But Messager knows that the best fairytales are about girls growing up in the danger of domestica . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Growing up in the shadow of Olivier had already left its mark on Richard professionally . |
| 20 | At the age of 12 , her life appears so carefree , but growing up in the railway town sees her family growing apart . |
| 21 | They were soon deep in a well-reasoned conversation about these , particularly as they related to young children growing up in the environment of strife . |
| 22 | When one grows up in the north-east , one is aware that the region is a long way from the English seat of power in London . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ I grew up in the country , ’ she murmured , not sure why she had told him that because it had no bearing on the subject . |
| 25 | There the boys grew up in the King 's court . |
| 26 | Liam Hamilton grew up in the mining village of Kilsyth . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He grew up in the capital Pretoria , a city with jacarandas , bureaucrats , uniforms . |
| 29 | In other words , the reef grew up in the presence of the starfish . |
| 30 | 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 . |