Example sentences of "grew [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you grew up in a certain kind of society , you adopt its values . ’ |
| 2 | Her mother was William Godwin 's second wife , and Clairmont grew up in a free-thinking household with her brother , illegitimate like herself , with Mary Wollstonecraft 's daughter by Godwin — another Mary of Clairmont 's age — and with Fanny , Wollstonecraft 's older illegitimate daughter . |
| 3 | We grew up in a heterosexual culture which banishes positive images of homosexuality . |
| 4 | The press in English-speaking West Africa grew up in a nationalist tradition : newspapers were the mouthpieces of emerging , campaigning , nationalist politicians . |
| 5 | One of my own patients grew up in a loving family where it was assumed that he would eventually study law — just like his grandfather , his father and his uncle . |
| 6 | Amaldi grew up in a small town in Lombardy , and took his doctorate in physics from Rome at the remarkably early age of 21 . |
| 7 | I grew up in a small mining village on the outskirts of Rotherham during the fifties and sixties . |
| 8 | Born in the late 1930s , Edhi grew up in a small Indian village , Bantva , near Junagadh ( Gujerat ) . |
| 9 | Here we grew up in a close-knit , self-sufficient family . |
| 10 | Born in Middlesex of an Irish doctor , she grew up in a pleasant and comfortable home in Ireland and was 5 years old when she noticed that her hearing was failing , and by the age of 17 , she was almost totally deaf . |
| 11 | He grew up in a depressed community and would never forget what he saw there : ‘ I used to watch the wheel of the pit spin round year after year , after school and Saturdays and Sundays ; and then from 1926 on I watched it not turning at all , and I ca n't ever get that wheel out of my mind . ’ |
| 12 | I grew up in a big way over there . ’ |
| 13 | He grew up in a Free Church home in Huddersfield with grace before meals and friends in for hymn singing on Sunday evenings after the service in the Baptist church ; he was a Fabian of long standing ; a cofounder of War on Want ; and his wife was a daughter of a Congregational minister . |
| 14 | As we have seen in the section on Education , Wordsworth grew up in a mathematical and scientific age , which still adhered to principles discovered in the seventeenth century . |
| 15 | She grew up in a cultured and progressive home atmosphere . |
| 16 | As one who grew up in the Dark Ages and is , as a result , spiritually stunted and psychologically scarred , I regularly find myself cringing at the sight of moaning footballers and speculating , in a twisted fashion , on how much better they might play if all the energy spent on operating the jaws were to be concentrated on getting on with the game . |
| 17 | In Liverpool , where I grew up in the early 1960s , one could no more not have an interest in football than fly to the moon . |
| 18 | She grew up in the African bush , and came to love the many wild animals as well as the domestic animals on her father 's farm . |
| 19 | The very idea of the ‘ liberal humanities ’ , as distinct from the sciences , grew up in the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | A polity grew up in the nineteenth century that , through changes of regime , was characterized by its narrow social base and the ‘ exclusion of subordinate classes from any form of participation in the political sphere ’ ( Giner 1985 : 311 ) . |
| 21 | Mr Mukhametshin , a 39-year-old Tatar who grew up in the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan , began in business at 13 when he apprenticed himself to a family of travelling ice-cream makers . |
| 22 | EVERYONE who grew up in the Sixties has heard of Transcendental Meditation and its founder the Maharishi , the giggling Indian guru who guided the Beatles through their flower power phase . |
| 23 | Parents who grew up in the sixties , when the cult of the teenager first took hold , may still look and feel young and be unready to acknowledge that their children are growing up . |
| 24 | I know , I know , it 's against all the rules of nature , and we free spirits grew up in the Sixties letting our hair just be , did n't we ? |
| 25 | His work as a paid negotiator caused him to travel through most of New South Wales arbitrating in disputes , taking part in conciliations and talking , talking , talking as industries grew up in the prospering state and workers flooded in from Britain , mostly from Ireland , to claim their share of what were meagre wages . |
| 26 | This market grew up in the 1950s when the local authorities began to raise money for capital projects by issuing bills and bonds , and by raising loans . |
| 27 | The bees are significantly more likely to bite half sisters than full sisters , even though all the bees grew up in the same hive ( Nature , vol 302 , p 147 ) . |
| 28 | We grew up in the same turnin' , yer see . |
| 29 | ‘ He and I grew up in the same town . |
| 30 | ‘ I grew up in the same street as Alex Maskey , ’ said Mr Blair who also knew SF 's Paddy McManus many years ago . |