Example sentences of "grow [adv prt] in the [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | RONALD Fraser 's In Search of a Past was published in 1984 , and Ralph Glasser 's Growing up in the Gorbals in 1986 . |
| 6 | Michael Holly was an unremarkable boy growing up in the suburbs of south-west London . |
| 7 | Any tendency to increase the ratio of surface area to weight would help , for example flaps of skin growing out in the angles of joints . |
| 8 | Our grandmothers grew up in the days when women rose at dawn , laid the sticks and lit the fire . |