Example sentences of "it grow [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wyspiański wrote : ‘ You could pay the wide world a visit / Watch it grow and grow / But Poland you 'd never find . ’ |
| 2 | Farmers had demonstrated , as they had to Arch in the 1870s , that once the seed is in the ground they can happily watch it grow and starve their workers , if necessary , into submission in the meantime . |
| 3 | We had a good view of Sao Paulo as we flew over it — so massive , it looks bigger than New York , and you can almost see it grow as you watch it , because all round the outskirts of the city are straggling half-finished ‘ shanty town housing estates ’ , with dirt roads and little hut-like dwellings , as it seemed from the air . |
| 4 | He will become fully capable of erection , with the development of the suffusion of myriads of tiny blood vessels which swell the muscles of the penis and cause it to grow and stiffen under sexual stimulation . |
| 5 | Chickweed ( Stellaria media ) is known as an ephemeral weed , meaning it grows and sets seed rapidly , producing several generations in one season . |
| 6 | It grows and develops : all members play their part in this , as they feed their understanding of the revealed message by their ‘ contemplation and study ’ and by experience of ‘ spiritual realities ’ ( DV 8 ; cf. |
| 7 | But as it grows and the number of people and ideas becomes large , even in an idea-stimulating culture and climate such as this one , a more formal procedure seems required to take care of the creative potential of the employees . |
| 8 | ‘ Either we have caught a sickness which is native to this world and we have no immunity against it , or maybe we have brought something with us , and because the air and the temperature are different here , it grows and alters . |
| 9 | It passes on that crystalline structure to the daughter stream , where it grows and multiplies and finally sends ‘ seeds ’ out again . |
| 10 | I would wait a few weeks to see if it grows or clears up of its own accord and if it is still there , go to the vet . |
| 11 | It grew until it was a window and out through the window she could see down a long tunnel ; and beyond that the sun shining and the mountains rising over the fruit trees . |
| 12 | It grew and grew , but still kept to its tunnels , some of which it enlarged as it grew . |
| 13 | But , like all rumours , it grew and flourished . |
| 14 | The movement was not organised , it grew and flourished in individual schools and in individual classrooms . |
| 15 | But it grew and grew , like a great impossible wave gathering , till she knew it must be something from outside herself ; she heard her voice crying words of some kind , as if impelled . |
| 16 | And it grew and started to thrive . |
| 17 | It grew as she thought , and there were staircases everywhere , every room had two doors , and all the windows could open for her to slip through unnoticed . |