Example sentences of "[pron] grew up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I grew up in a house where the smells of preparation and cooking began , below stairs , not long after I rose . |
| 2 | As I grew up in Kensal Green — which is just up the road from Ladbroke Grove — it became one of the areas the first wave of black immigrants came to . |
| 3 | I grew up on movies and have always believed that if cameras had been invented before Ur and Og first trod the stone age boards then no one would ever have bothered to invent plays , they would have just leapt straight into the cinema . |
| 4 | ‘ I grew up on this train , eh ? |
| 5 | Back in the old days , in the Fifties , before the nights of car-park-training , people kept big dogs , with names like Nero and Saladin , Sakkie and Doris ; dogs that roamed the sandy ex-Servicemen 's estate where I grew up , on the edge of Johannesburg , a jumble of sandy streets named after English kings and queens . |
| 6 | ‘ I grew up in the Swinging Sixties , ’ she broke in : ‘ Beatlemania , flower children , magic mushrooms . |
| 7 | I wanted to be Agnetha , the blonde one , when I grew up . ’ |
| 8 | I GREW up between two households , my father 's and that of my mother 's father and mother . |
| 9 | In the villages where I grew up , we did not play with Catholics . |
| 10 | ‘ I grew up in what was , at least in principle , a model democracy . |
| 11 | I grew up close to my godmother so as a child I was inoculated with the theatre . |
| 12 | It was my Brazilian-born wife — who you see is my accompanist — who insisted we accept engagements in Europe because she wanted to see where I grew up . |
| 13 | Lord Taylor was n't required to change the game I grew up with . |
| 14 | Not only this , but within the metric system itself there is standardisation , so that some of the terms with which I grew up have all but disappeared . |
| 15 | I know , I grew up in a village . ’ |
| 16 | My father still lives there in the house where I grew up . ’ |
| 17 | I grew up on his idea of Sir Walter Ralegh , and his Agincourt poem and Offa on the Dyke . |
| 18 | Sukenick has also gone on record as seeing writing as an essentially adversarial activity : ‘ When I grew up , I grew up with an idea of writing as a form of resistance to the establishment and culture at large ’ ( Sukenick 1985 : 139 ) . |
| 19 | Sukenick has also gone on record as seeing writing as an essentially adversarial activity : ‘ When I grew up , I grew up with an idea of writing as a form of resistance to the establishment and culture at large ’ ( Sukenick 1985 : 139 ) . |
| 20 | His career at Thame had been full of promise , attested by the Oxford University Local Examinations certificate framed on the walls of the terraced house in Cardiff in which I grew up . |
| 21 | As Jean points out : ‘ When I grew up , my Mum did nothing else but cook our food ; her contemporaries did n't work . |
| 22 | That was the mentality I grew up with . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He plays golf , I grew up in Bearsden . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The more I grew up , the more I got to like her . |
| 27 | Dad taught me a lot as I grew up . |
| 28 | When I grew up , young people had various ways of intimating to each other a desire to become better acquainted , but playing footsie-footsie was not generally one of them . |
| 29 | When I grew up , opera had all the allure of a thé dansant on Bournemouth pier . |
| 30 | I now live in a small Perthshire village , substantially less homogeneous than the one in which I grew up but in which there are also a few catholic families and where the majority are of presbyterian Scottish/Ulster stock . |