Example sentences of "grows [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The painfully sensitive narrator of The Better Angel grows up to be a farmer , not a novelist , but there is still the sense that he tells his tale as an act of compulsive , faintly therapeutic , honesty . |
| 2 | The two other sisters , Miranda and Janet , go radically different ways ; Janet becomes a Tory , while Miranda grows up to be a very conscious feminist . |
| 3 | It does n't matter if the child grows up to be an adult whose logic tells him that he is n't stupid ; if those words have been repeated often enough , he will never have the confidence to realise how much he knows or to make proper use of that knowledge . |
| 4 | And although I have to admit that this tale of a French prince who is turned into a frog by his wicked aunt and grows up to be a prince among frogs and a secret agent to boot , did n't grab me , it will surely keep the little ones enthralled . |
| 5 | I do n't think we will get anywhere by regarding children 's books as some kind of charitable cause with a long term and uncertain pay-off when the children eventually grows up to be an obedient adult book buyer . |
| 6 | I hope these so-called mothers never wonder why the child they gave birth to , grows up to be a stranger to them . |
| 7 | Whether your baby grows up to be right or left-handed may not be just a matter of chance or heredity . |
| 8 | She starts life as an adorable little girl and grows up to be an extraordinarily beautiful woman . ’ |
| 9 | The dredge ( mainly oats ) grows well to be cut green and made like hay in August . |