Example sentences of "grew [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It caused a little social outing in my family , " said a pitman 's daughter who grew up in the South Yorkshire pit village where her father worked . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I grew up in the country , ’ she murmured , not sure why she had told him that because it had no bearing on the subject . |
| 4 | Jack ‘ Kid ’ Berg , who grew up in the East End ghetto , fought his way up from the streets to a world welterweight title in the tradition of oppressed racial minorities . |
| 5 | Both were born and grew up in the East End of Glasgow . |
| 6 | There the boys grew up in the King 's court . |
| 7 | Liam Hamilton grew up in the mining village of Kilsyth . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He grew up in the capital Pretoria , a city with jacarandas , bureaucrats , uniforms . |
| 10 | In other words , the reef grew up in the presence of the starfish . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Miss Young , above , who grew up in the south of France , earned pocket money as an extra in her father 's films . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't use drugs myself , but I grew up in the South Bronx where heroin use was all around me . |
| 14 | The industry grew up in the Lake District because there was a demand for gunpowder in the slate quarries and copper mines of the region , and because of the ready availability of birch and alder for charcoal and fast flowing becks to drive the machinery in the area . |
| 15 | It may also have acted as a service centre for the nearby imperial estate centred on Combe Down and for the numerous rich villas which grew up in the vicinity . |
| 16 | Our grandmothers grew up in the days when women rose at dawn , laid the sticks and lit the fire . |
| 17 | ‘ An entire generation of Filipinos grew up in the shadow of dictatorship , ’ wrote Sheila Coronel of the Manila Times . |
| 18 | The European Community grew up in the shadow of the Atlantic alliance . |
| 19 | The child Nizan grew up in the shadow of death . |
| 20 | He gained respect , he knew the children that grew up in the neighbourhood . |
| 21 | She grew up in the north-east of England and graduated from Somerville College , Oxford , with first-class honours in modern history . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps not , but , as I already told you , I grew up in the business , ’ she returned hotly . |
| 23 | The ghetto , founded in the 13C , grew up in the area between the Old Town Square and the River Vltava near the ford . |
| 24 | Mr Hildon grew up in the area and was a pupil at William Turner 's Grammar School , Coatham . |
| 25 | She grew up in the area , most recently living in Northallerton where she worked for North Yorkshire county council . |
| 26 | David Koresh grew up in the Bible belt . |
| 27 | You grew up in the countryside and you could n't wait to get away from it ! |
| 28 | Stoker had a poorly childhood in Dublin , and he grew up in the city of Sheridan Le Fanu who took opium and drank green tea , and wrote a truly dreadful tale about a lamia by name of Carmilla , who , as lamias often do , set out to suck the blood from a virginal girl called Laura . |
| 29 | Let us look at those towns that grew up in the midst of their own open fields , that entered the nineteenth century with their population rising at a phenomenal rate , but were wholly unable to expand their building area to meet this rise in numbers . |