Example sentences of "and [pron] have grown " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've lived here all my life , Mr Wycliffe , and I 've grown up with such tales ; nobody takes them seriously . ’ |
| 2 | Roy 's trombone features included the little known Nobody Else But Me and I 've Grown Accustomed To Her Face , and John 's solo spots on baritone sax were Stardust and Duke 's Ive Got It Bad and That Ai n't Good . |
| 3 | My sister still lives in Berkhamsted , where she and I had grown up and where she and John had subsequently made their home . |
| 4 | As had happened before with the labour education programs , the organisations which had been working with Highlander , and which had grown in depth of perspective and experience , took over the running of their own grass roots educational activities . |
| 5 | ‘ And you 've grown up since last I saw you . ’ |
| 6 | By 1966 , the Church was better able to take advantage of the new interest in its separatist stance because it now had a core of Ulstermen who had been converted under Ian Paisley s preaching and who had grown up with his politicized evangelicalism . |
| 7 | So he had dared her to grow it , and she had grown it , from eyebrow to ear to nape to the length of the neck to the shoulders . |
| 8 | True , her father and nine uncles and aunts ( Irish , all doctors ) were serious gardeners , and she had grown marigolds and radishes as a small girl . |
| 9 | And she had grown to like both her employers . |
| 10 | Craig had been staying with her for some weeks now and she had grown used to seeing him there in her kitchen . |
| 11 | His jokes with her had started jamming , and she had grown steely and even gone through his pockets . |
| 12 | It had been a special childhood , full of laughter and fun ; Mark and she had grown up together as friends , as well as brother and sister . |
| 13 | We have erm , managers of these funds who have a lot of expertise , a lot of experience , we 've been going over thirty years now , and we 've grown extremely quickly because of the expertise of our managers . |
| 14 | ‘ We were born here and we 've grown up with that . |
| 15 | Initial awkwardness and self-consciousness dissolve swiftly in such surroundings , and we have grown close , sharing a sense of dumbstruck awe before the landscape . |
| 16 | Of course the initial treatment was five years ago , and they 've grown up since then . |
| 17 | They were never welcome wherever they went and they had grown used to the Moor . |
| 18 | yes , well I used to read a lot of story books , travel avidly and I think I forget all about the author and the story , but I remember one portion where they discovered a depression in the middle of a continent where it was in excess of and they 'd grown quite a different specie |
| 19 | All the royal residences have magnificent gardens and he had grown up appreciating them , but they are tended by gardeners : neither the Queen nor the Duke of Edinburgh is interested . |
| 20 | He had his back to me , and he had grown a beard , but his hair was still thick and blond . |
| 21 | He felt , somehow , as though he was deserting ; and he had grown much to admire the older man . |
| 22 | Spencer had been spoiled , treated for far too long as a baby and he had grown up knowing how to twist his mother around his little finger . |
| 23 | This happened most nights and he had grown to think that it was an easier and more interesting way of travelling , particularly as his looks and his load of schoolbooks and his thinness caused people to stop . |
| 24 | He had been a thin , light-framed boy , and he had grown to become a lean , wiry man ; the years of life on merchant ships , and then in Australia , had left his skin looking well-used , like soft and fine-grained — but slightly distressed — leather . |
| 25 | Unless it was small and it 's grown ! |
| 26 | give it another growing and I just thought stupid plant , and I 've left it and it 's grown into a beautiful , , did n't call it which now is supposed to before the other way round . |
| 27 | My mum has a passion fruit plant and it has grown for the first time . |
| 28 | Erm , most of it grown , it 'd grown back and it has grown back funny |