Example sentences of "as [pron] have grown " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been advised by my doctor that a year 's holiday in another land would build me up , as I had grown too quickly and had , as the phrase goes , " overgrown my strength " . |
| 2 | As I had grown some six inches since he had last seen me , I did n't for a moment believe that his recognition was unprompted . |
| 3 | As I 've grown older , I never cease to be amazed at the theories of the amateur detectives who always turn up at any tragic occurrence and immediately are able to give all the answers . |
| 4 | I have been constantly told what a fine man he was and I regret not being able to experience and appreciate his qualities first-hand as I have grown from a child to an adult . |
| 5 | A letter of 1871 gives a vivid sense of the convictions which impelled her throughout her life : ‘ As I have grown older the terrible sufferings of women of my own class for want of good elementary training have more than ever intensified my earnest desire to lighten ever so little the misery of women brought up ‘ to be married and taken care of ’ and left alone in the world destitute . |
| 6 | Her face had got rounder as she had grown older ; in her spectacles , she looked like an angry owl . |
| 7 | On subsequent visits , as she had grown bolder , Ellie had started trying some of her mother 's clothes on , first over her own dress , and then over just her underclothes . |
| 8 | She had grown used to the tiny sounds that were so much a part of Seawitch , just as she had grown used to the boat 's continually changing motion . |
| 9 | And Joanna 's bones have strengthened naturally as she has grown older . |
| 10 | Her taste has changed as she has grown older . |
| 11 | I struggled on for a while , but I know my limitations when it comes to design , especially as we have grown to expect a high standard in QP . |
| 12 | The drugs that depressed the immune system were stopped , and as quickly as they had grown , the masses in the lungs began to disappear . |
| 13 | In his farewell speech he announced that he and his wife would be remaining in the capital city as they had grown to love the place and its people . |
| 14 | Seventy per cent state that their PMS has worsened as they have grown older — 84% of women with ‘ very bad ’ PMS have experienced this . |
| 15 | In so far as they have grown up in an ad hoc fashion , designed by the art colleges on an individual basis , it is difficult to generalize about them . |
| 16 | One afternoon a nurserymaid from the castle had appeared with Richard , and her distress had melted as quickly as it had grown . |
| 17 | Once Baldwin 's decision was made , the right-wing plot collapsed as suddenly as it had grown up and , as always after prolonged but successful mental strain , he felt free . |
| 18 | And Hewlett-Packard has shown itself willing to make regular infilling acquisitions as it has grown — the company was heavily castigated for the price it paid for Apollo Computer Inc , but without Apollo , it would not be in anything like such a strong position today . |
| 19 | Returning to the record established at the head of this chapter , the Modular Course has obviously been transformed as it has grown . |
| 20 | The success of the concept of franchising is self-evident as it has grown to encompass more and more business sectors . |
| 21 | He had not quietened down at all as he had grown older — far from it — and could not now be still for a single moment . |
| 22 | As he had grown older , his anger had turned to cold bitterness , and creeping into his mind had come the idea of revenge , something subtle enough to humble his mother , make her realize that he lived , without killing her . |
| 23 | As he has grown older he has become more involved with the social content of his work yet he sees his relationship to the audience in very personal terms . |