Example sentences of "[verb] grown big " in BNC.
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| 1 | This plywood structure has grown bigger and bigger , and he has even carved gothic spires on its top . |
| 2 | It is a big job now which has grown bigger with each passing match . |
| 3 | One of the publishers most successful at catering for this hunger for information is International Data Group ( IDG ) , a firm that has grown big by breaking many of the management rules cherished by other big publishers . |
| 4 | As a consequence the dinosaurs that preyed on them must also have grown bigger . |
| 5 | Where if they would have grown bigger the erm , it would have balanced it . |
| 6 | Everything around him seemed to have grown bigger ( just like Alice in Wonderland , in n it ? ) . |
| 7 | The one I had last year is too small — 'cos I 've grown bigger . |
| 8 | Erm you may have heard that we 've grown big by being recommended . |
| 9 | Cos that 's the usual line you see that , that er that I get , you may have heard the phrase that we 've grown big by being recommended . |
| 10 | If the tumour had grown bigger why take more pictures ? but that was dangerous ground , I was n't a medic . |
| 11 | He always looked to her like an infant who had grown bigger and bigger and then stopped growing without changing much . |
| 12 | Some forty years later , the town had grown big enough to call for a church of its own , instead of attending the mother church of Great Bowden . |
| 13 | The tunnel entrance had grown big , the stone arch of it rearing up ahead of us like the open jaws of some petrified monster . |
| 14 | The main time may well be from harvest through to April the following year , but netting is in fact selective because the size of the mesh allows small rabbits to escape — to be netted some other time when they have grown bigger . |
| 15 | Once the plantlets have grown bigger they are ready for transplanting . |
| 16 | They have been in Perth now for nine years and in business as McKays for three , providing , as Lesley McKay explained , ‘ accounting services to companies that have grown big enough to need an accountant or finance director , but not big enough to afford one full-time ’ . |