Example sentences of "grow up [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children whose parents set firm limits for them grow up with more self-esteem and confidence than those who are allowed to get away with behaving in any way they like . |
| 2 | Melanie could easily have grown up into that sort of woman . |
| 3 | Alongside the formal structures , a network of informal relationships has grown up at all levels of the organization . |
| 4 | Serafine sways with her hands , Xanthe follows , imitates gigglingly , but Miranda is too grown up for such playschool ways . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've lived here all my life , Mr Wycliffe , and I 've grown up with such tales ; nobody takes them seriously . ’ |
| 6 | I 've grown up with this type of regime . |
| 7 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 8 | Savvy : I 'm from the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre project in London and our members include lesbians of First Nation and Third World descent , both people who 've grown up in this country and people who have n't , so we have a very diverse membership . |
| 9 | Slowly the doctors will wean her off them and are hopeful she 'll grow up without any problems . |
| 10 | But then I did n't grow up in that context . |
| 11 | I would n't let the children grow up in this environment . |
| 12 | Older brother Helgard won three caps in the early 80s , and Muller found it tough growing up with that comparison . |
| 13 | The sharing and growing up without much money and finding a belief in yourself and the work . |
| 14 | Yes children should be at school and not at work but how can we ignore all those millions of others now growing up without this opportunity . |
| 15 | ‘ Because if you did , you 'd know as well as I that any youngsters growing up in that sort of background learn from a relatively early age all the joys of hotel life — like being called upon to wash sinkloads of dishes when the dishwasher packs up — or to change dozens of beds when the chambermaid calls in sick . |
| 16 | And when I think of my daughters growing up in that atmosphere , in that society , I feel I must try to avoid it if in any way I can . |
| 17 | My old man had this thing about all of us [ a family of ten ] growing up in this society and not getting into a black thing . |
| 18 | I mean you get to this stage where a certain age you can say no you 're not having it because they 've got to start to grow up at some point and she likes using the felt tips and she 's usually not too bad with them |
| 19 | There is n't very many soldiers that grew up at this school any more . |
| 20 | I think his mother died when he was young and he grew up with more books than friends maybe more Shakespeare than Mark Twain . |
| 21 | ‘ I grew up on this train , eh ? |
| 22 | ‘ I grew up on these stories . |
| 23 | It 's different for Harry , he grew up without any money behind him . |
| 24 | ‘ So you grew up in that house alone with your aunt , ’ Matilda said . |