Example sentences of "grow up [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A desperately sad aspect of the modern family is the way in which so much lavish attention is spent on the ( small number of ) children who after a life of smothering contact with their parents grow up and become almost strangers . |
| 2 | ‘ When I was young my mama used to say ‘ grow up and see how tough the world is ’ ' and ‘ I was unhappy at my mother 's death/ I was unhappy at my father 's death/ … |
| 3 | The cereal-packet image assumes a static family structure , when clearly individual families change considerably as children are born , grow up and leave home . |
| 4 | The children grow up and move away . |
| 5 | It 's too easy , I think , to assume that women are n't aggressive and are sensitive and men are more aggressive and less sensitive because that 's the way society has wanted them to be in the past and children have grown up and lived up to those stereotypes , so I do n't think we can actually say yet that women can offer anything distinctive until we 've given them the chance to be themselves really . |
| 6 | Instead , it was suggested the couple , who married in their early 20s , had simply grown up and grown apart . |
| 7 | … has grown up and gone away , |
| 8 | May had stepped out of routine only if relatives , more needy she thought but in Jack 's private opinion more selfish and feckless , had called on her help , or on account of their children , now grown up and living away from home . |
| 9 | Caro 's widowed mother had remarried only in recent years and her new husband already had four children , all grown up and living away from home . |
| 10 | I felt that we might be able to establish peace by other means until he had grown up and become more readily identifiable as top dog by Stan . |
| 11 | A few years ago Jo would have been unable to resist a put-down , but the Hollywood brat had grown up and knew how and when to be gracious . |
| 12 | Be grown up and make up your own mind . |
| 13 | She 's grown up and left home and wonders who the hell she is . |
| 14 | Besides , it 's too late in the year , all the chicks will have grown up and flown away by now . ’ |
| 15 | Usually it is not long before the female members of his family , and the wives of his friends and neighbours , come to his rescue to ‘ mother ’ him through the period of his grieving and depression , and some , whose children have grown up and left home , will find great pleasure in doing so . |
| 16 | ‘ We had n't got children then and now they 've grown up and left home , ’ said David Coleman . |
| 17 | ‘ He started going on again about me going into mainstream journalism , how a friend of his had contacts in Fleet Street , why the hell did n't I grow up and settle down like normal girls , why did I go around with Jake . |
| 18 | So another generation can grow up an gu long |
| 19 | But growing up and learning how she ought to feel and behave , what she ought to value , means that she has to give up doing just as she pleases . |
| 20 | I just tried to write what it was like for me in Toronto , growing up and hanging out , the suburban adolescent heavy metal North American experience . |
| 21 | They hand over responsibility to teenage , growing up and growing away , young people , who should gradually feel they are in charge of their own lives , and eventually become fully independent . |
| 22 | ‘ Pet Sounds ’ was all of that : big fluffy clouds of studio-driven glory and a mass of dreamy , angsty impressions about falling in love and growing up and feeling extraordinarily sensitised about life 's rich business . |
| 23 | They wanted to hug , cuddle , kiss , make daisy chains and watch the ducklings running on the surface of the lake , but one was told to grow up and pay back the beastly Jews who were wicked people and had put daddy Schicklgruber out of work , another that anyone who did n't enjoy riding bare back across Asia splitting skulls was a sissy , the third that all Mensheviks carried a knife up their sleeve and needed purging . |
| 24 | It was rather disappointing to grow up and find out that the sun did n't give a monkey 's testicle whether it came out or not , but was in fact a non-sentient mass of gases radiating heat and light to earth , except in Scotland . |
| 25 | We began by saying that William Titford moved house comparatively infrequently , and within a fairly limited area ; he and Mary Ann found new accommodation only once more in their married life together — as the children grew up and left home the parents moved to 48 Freegrove Road , Holloway , just off the Caledonian Road . |
| 26 | When they grew up and went off into the wild I suffered dreadful pangs . |
| 27 | A recent review of the IQ debate , commissioned by the Swann inquiry , concluded that the largest variation in IQ scores was caused by the social and economic conditions under which children grew up and pointed out , ‘ If , therefore , we wish to affect the IQ scores of children from ethnic minorities , or indeed their school performance , we might make a start by improving the social and economic circumstances of their families ’ ( Mackintosh and Mascie-Taylor , 1985 , p. 148 ) . |