Example sentences of "grew up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a teenager I grew up through the rock ‘ n roll era and witnessed the influence many pop stars exerted on things such as fashion and philosophy . |
| 2 | We 'll certainly be putting firms in touch with others so that they can learn quickly from other experiences as quite a network of firms grew up at the seminar . |
| 3 | At Weedon Bec in Northamptonshire an entirely new settlement mainly composed of inns , grew up at the point in the parish where the Holyhead road left the Roman Watling Street and struck north-west towards Daventry . |
| 4 | Many of them grew up during the student revolution of the 1960s when an extraordinary hostility to wealth , power and respectability came to dominate a generation . |
| 5 | Ibrahim Bu Shanna , reaching maturity at a propitious time , had opportunities to achieve success in trade denied to his elder brother , who grew up during the war : the elder brother was a gardener , who lived subordinate in every way except the symbolic to Ibrahim , a successful wholesaler . |
| 6 | They are as follows : the Cabinet Committee system grew up as the load on the Cabinet itself became too great . |
| 7 | Their role has changed from turnkey to nurse but many grew up with the expectation that Rampton would be their career . |
| 8 | Born in May 1964 , Bustin , ‘ grew up with the idea that I could n't be an artist , since , one , I was n't male , and two , I was n't mad ! ’ |
| 9 | Born in May 1964 , Bustin , ‘ grew up with the idea that I could n't be an artist , since , one , I was n't male , and two , I was n't mad ! ’ |
| 10 | I think I grew up with the idea that disablement or illness was inevitable , that drugging was inevitable and that maybe being locked up or cut open was inevitable . |
| 11 | Two mini Margis in the stalls are the target of most of the ad libs , and they respond as if they grew up with the star . |
| 12 | I grew up with the balance and sound of the Vienna Philharmonic in the Grosse Musikvereinsaal , and I must say , listening to some of Furtwängler 's performances recorded there , it still sounds good to me . |
| 13 | It was natural that the youth , who grew up with the failure of the Arab world and of their elders ( and social superiors ) to recover Palestine , should become a leading political force in the country . |
| 14 | Nineteenth-century industrial settlements grew up on the north side of Bolton with the great textile boom , when wealthy mill-owners created model villages after the example of Port Sunlight ( q.v . ) . |
| 15 | Of mixed European and Pacific ancestry , Stevens grew up on the island of Espiritu Santo . |
| 16 | The industry grew up on the strength of local timber and water supplies . |
| 17 | Many young people like myself who were born and grew up on the flat albeit slightly rolling prairies , sometimes feel a yearning for the mountains and the sea , and I was no exception . |
| 18 | For the East German state is the realisation of the dreams of a young roofer as he grew up among the filth of the coal mines and steel mills of the Saarland in the Thirties . |
| 19 | I grew up among the kind of communists and socialists who guided him into the working-class communities and who staff some of their struggles . |
| 20 | If this sort of thing could take place at the most sacred shrine in Delhi , then the festivals at the lesser dargahs-such as that which grew up around the grave of the saintly Emperor Bahadur Shah I — could be even more lively . |
| 21 | Today the Abbey 's massive gatehouse overlooks the ancient battlefield and , on the opposite side , the lovely little market town called Battle , which grew up around the Abbey walls . |
| 22 | In the sixteenth century , Mary , Queen of Scots , conferred the honour of Royal Burgh on the community that grew up around the estuary . |
| 23 | Key elements of the financial system grew up around the Bank , such as insurance , partnership banks , chartered trading companies and the Stock Exchange . |
| 24 | Great brier hedges grew up around the Palace , and for many months Ireland had no ruler . ’ |
| 25 | He is chairman of the authority that has taken over the 16,200 hectare ( 40,000 acre ) site and mayor of Olongapo City , the town that grew up alongside the base . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ I grew up in the country , ’ she murmured , not sure why she had told him that because it had no bearing on the subject . |
| 28 | There the boys grew up in the King 's court . |
| 29 | Liam Hamilton grew up in the mining village of Kilsyth . |
| 30 | 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 . |