Example sentences of "but [pron] have grown " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , he has his faults , but I 've grown up alongside of him and , I can tell you , he 's a good guy . ’ |
| 2 | But I 've grown up with David , or , should I say , I grew up idolising him . |
| 3 | You did n't grow big cars but you 've grown much bigger flowers than we did . ’ |
| 4 | And one of the girls said yeah but you 've grown since then , I says no , they 've shrunk them ! |
| 5 | But you have grown so tall and handsome . ’ |
| 6 | Some of his little ways had indeed been quite surprising in the past , seeing that they ranged from the quartering of badgers , rescued from a baiting , in her coal-shed to the introduction of separate limbs and even of whole orphans for dissection when they were in good supply towards the end of winter ; but she had grown used to them little by little . |
| 7 | God , but she had grown up a lot since then . |
| 8 | But she has grown up strangely , and she treats him with a cold formality , calling him ‘ Sir ’ but correcting him almost every time he speaks . |
| 9 | I liked going to the Youth Club or the pictures with him , or staying in and watching telly in his new flat , but we 'd grown apart . |
| 10 | It had become clear to me that both Leslie and I had changed — not in essentials , but we had grown up . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't think we 'd be together for so long but we 've grown up together and been through some brutal things . ’ |
| 12 | He was fourteen years old , blind and hardly able to walk , but they had grown much attached to him and could hardly endure the thought of his death . |
| 13 | but they 've grown up again . |
| 14 | ‘ These provincial councils were meant to act as part of central council within their own area , but they have grown more independent and now we have a situation where there is both competition and conflict between them and a reluctance to accept the authority of central council . ’ |
| 15 | But he had grown to understand that none of them could even pretend to these things . |
| 16 | At first it had been harrowing , but he had grown used to it . |
| 17 | Fei was not a native of the community that he studied ( the village of Kaihsienkung , in the Yangtze Delta , about 1 25 miles south-west of Shanghai ) , but he had grown up in the same district so that he was familiar with the nuances of the local dialect . |
| 18 | In the Sixties Cash was a wild man — arrested in 1966 at El Paso airport with 668 amphetamine tablets and 475 tranquillisers hidden in his guitar — but he has grown into respectability incarnate , married to June Carter for 23 years with a growing brood of children and grandchildren . |
| 19 | And then — and the memory was fleeting , but it had grown over the years — then she had reached to the boy … |
| 20 | But it 's grown to twenty areas . |