Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] have grown " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his autobiography A Little Learning ( 1964 ) Waugh was to observe that at the age of sixteen he noticed that his publisher father , ‘ whom I had grown up to accept with complete simplicity ’ , was in fact a highly gifted actor in everything he did . |
| 2 | So you had to look for someone who had grown up with the idea that you could kill . |
| 3 | Could do without my it 's grown to nothing since I moved ! |
| 4 | Alas , I was only just beginning to be visually aware , but to the extent to which I have grown in such awareness over the years I believe it was Basil and Ruth who started to make me look and see . |
| 5 | I have been there nearly ten years now , and they are years in which I have grown to learn a good deal more about the power of the Holy Spirit , his gifts , his humbling and breaking , and the glorious way in which he takes and transforms congregations and lives from every conceivable background once opened to him . |
| 6 | Later the legends and stories with which she had grown up would be added to them — stories of astonishing miracles and heroic adventures , by which she and her father , Solomon Klinitsky-Klein — whose influence on Leonard should not be overlooked — fired his imagination and stimulated his ideas . |
| 7 | For Cecilia , however — a young black girl placed in care at 13 because her mother could n't cope — the fact that she could express anger and upset with her sister , whom she dearly loved , resulted in social workers suggesting a move , ‘ for her own good ’ , to a smaller family-style establishment in the country , miles from the inner city community in which she had grown up . |
| 8 | Within a week she was living with a black foster parent , in the area in which she had grown up , and was able to resume contact with her sister . |
| 9 | Like someone drowning , Sarah saw her past life in detail ; the filthy room in which she 'd grown up with no privacy and no sanitation , the painful joints on Ma 's fingers from too much sewing , Paddy 's brawls , and the incessant noise and smell of Turnmill Street . |
| 10 | There is no reason to believe that an increasing disparity between the standards of morality and behaviour which one has grown up to believe were true and right and those displayed and legitimated in the surrounding society can not of itself provide the ground for commitment to a movement of moral reform . |
| 11 | Jacob 's talk of blessing invites us to step out of the demon myth and fairy story , back into a land with which we have grown familiar , where human beings bump not into demons , but into God himself . |
| 12 | There were no jobs for young people in rural areas ; rising property prices meant that they were unable to find housing in the villages in which they had grown up . |
| 13 | Will Ministers be prepared to surrender the close degree of control over the Prison Service to which they have grown accustomed , and to the extent necessary to allow a Chief Executive the freedom required for true agency status ? |
| 14 | When the communicative support system with which they have grown up fails to function in the usual way , the effect , arguably , will be to make the children regress or behave in some other aberrant manner — for instance , to stop asking questions or to agree with whatever the adult suggests . |
| 15 | Michael 's problem was that he saw the glamour in Frank 's position : the love of liberty ; the excitement in the free pursuit of truth ; the shaking off of convention and mere conformity ; the feeling that religion was a ‘ stuffy valley ’ out of which he had grown . |
| 16 | A mechanical response with which he had grown up , natural as breathing . |
| 17 | He also allowed that the used-car business had failed to keep him in the style to which he had grown accustomed and rose to the prospect of a lucrative drug deal like a shark to a bucket of entrails . |
| 18 | The worst case of decline , that of Boston , was brought about by the decline of the wool trade , on the export of which it had grown , and its failure to secure any substantial share of cloth exports . |
| 19 | There can be no doubt that if Britain wants to look forward to a level of economic health even approaching that to which it has grown accustomed over the past 50 years , it must back Alvey 's proposals . |
| 20 | At the same time , the present stands in continuity with the past out of which it has grown , and the Christian theologian and the Christian church are bound in particular to the origins in Jesus and to the teaching of the Bible , especially the New Testament . |
| 21 | She had no time to dwell on the unhappiness of two people of whom she had grown fond , however , for just then her phone rang again . |
| 22 | Was n't he the one with whom she 'd grown up at Sleet when his father was head keeper before him ? |
| 23 | Laura 's lips curved into a warm smile at the thought of her cousin , the girl with whom she 'd grown up , and whom she loved as dearly as a sister . |
| 24 | She would raise her lamp and view the lover that she herself had grown , even if this meant that she must lose him for ever . |
| 25 | Although he was clearly a grand gentleman — and she could sense the larger houses up and down the valley waking up to his presence like hunting dogs suddenly scenting a stag on the wind — his consideration for her — in one or two trivial matters — was nearer to the sort of decent , friendly understandings she herself had grown up with in the village . |
| 26 | I see this point of view from my own position as a third generation commuter between Harrogate and Leeds , and as a third generation commuter I do n't feel that it is a commentary on any absence of jobs in Harrogate or any shortage of jobs in Harrogate that I work in Leeds and live in Harrogate , it 's just something I 've grown up to think of as natural . |
| 27 | that 's all grown from leaves , just put the leaves in water and the little shoots come on them and then I put them in after some , when they 've got their little roots on them and they grow , that 's , that 's one I 've grown from , from just leaves and one in over there in the window I 've grown from leaves . |
| 28 | A central plank of the current attack upon education and the teaching profession ( and one which has grown since Callaghan 's Great Debate speech ) is that of employers ' dissatisfaction with educational standards and with the quality of young workers . |
| 29 | And I think we we have grown up to be a noisy |
| 30 | In the three years since he 'd last seen her she 'd grown it halfway down her back . |