Example sentences of "grown up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Religious communities at St-Martin , Tours , or St-Denis near Paris , had grown up at the tombs of martyrs in cemetery sites outside Roman civitates , and by the ninth century housed over a hundred clergy or monks apiece . |
| 2 | I often took it with me when going to the allotment and felt very grown up on the return journey if my father had put a few vegetables in it . |
| 3 | At the back of the platform was a fence , and although it had apparently been painted white in the early 1900's , in later years the paint had peeled off and bushes had grown up on the cutting side to provide a new backdrop to the isolated platform beside the overgrown railway . |
| 4 | Quite a number of the musicians who are at home in the ‘ renewal ’ idiom have grown up outside the Church . |
| 5 | Jesus chucked out the rubbish from the temple and swept away some of the traditions that had grown up over the years , insisting that his house become again a house of prayer for all nations . |
| 6 | It 's grown up over the years erm in fact I do n't think it counts as much , nearly as much now , as it used to . |
| 7 | The magnificent palace of Diocletian at Split , which inspired Robert Adam , the English designer of the eighteenth century , and also influenced the contemporary Georgian styles , still forms the outer shell , a square mile in area , which surrounds the vibrant city which has grown up over the centuries within and around its protective walls . |
| 8 | According to Burnham Beeches superintendent Ian Turney : " Since grazing was stopped , young trees have grown up between the pollards , competing for light , water and nutrients . |
| 9 | The duchess , recalling her own upbringing amidst a lively brood of brothers and sisters , recognized this , and was gratified by the devotion and closeness that had grown up between the girls . |
| 10 | We can not escape the conclusion that many of those employed in the Service feel a deep sense of dissatisfaction with the organisation and management of it as a whole and that a gulf has grown up between the establishments in the field and the staff who work in them on the one hand and headquarters at the Home Office in London on the other . |
| 11 | Having grown up under the nose of the Israeli war machine , young Palestinians have come to the conclusion that , in the world they inhabit , might is right and the only way to survive and flourish is to be strong and violent . |
| 12 | Since the first edition of this book both the Matrimonial Homes ( Co-ownership ) Bill introduced in the House of Lords in 1980 ( which would have made provision for statutory co-ownership of the matrimonial home ) and the Land Registration of Law of Property Bill ( affecting the practice that has grown up following the case of Williams & Glyn 's Bank Ltd v Boland ) [ 1981 ] AC 487 ) have failed . |
| 13 | Having grown up via the personality cult-littered path of doom rock , with Mission and Sisters Of Mercy fixations amongst the skeletons in their closet , the Messiah pair have no intention of accepting a fate as an anonymous disco duo , knocking out the odd hit . |
| 14 | The literary articles were the result of her home study of literature — she had grown up during the establishment of the free library system in Britain , which she used extensively to supplement her elementary education . |
| 15 | And many villagers who 've grown up with the noise of the jets say its the end of an era . |
| 16 | He says many people in the village have grown up with the noise of the jets . |
| 17 | Donita attributed it directly to the feminist line : ‘ Because this is the first generation that 's grown up with the women 's revolution . |
| 18 | People who have grown up with the sport when the pressures were not too great perhaps do not always think of others . |
| 19 | In Europe many children have visited another country before their tenth birthday , and generations have grown up with the expectation of travel . |
| 20 | I 've always grown up with the idea if I do a job , I 'll , I 'll do it properly or else I wo n't bother , I wo n't tackle it all . |
| 21 | If you 'd told me all those years ago , I would have grown up with the idea of another mother , perhaps miles away , perhaps just around the corner . |
| 22 | So you had to look for someone who had grown up with the idea that you could kill . |
| 23 | He had grown up with the impression that women 's motives were suspect , and so when Tom Rooney had given him advice he had found it so easy to believe , because it was what — subconsciously — he expected . |
| 24 | I was 14 then and have , like many other people , grown up with THE FACE . |
| 25 | Yevdoxia , who had grown up with the belief that sex was disgusting even at normal times , had refused to take any more of it , ever . |
| 26 | Indeed , having grown up with the privations of autarchy , they could see the potential benefits of inclusion in the international capitalist system . |
| 27 | Even before the revolution , however , and particularly under Tudor rule , the Privy Council had been largely ignored as too large and public a body , and the practice had grown up of the monarch preferring , instead , to seek advice from a smaller number of individuals whom he regarded as trustworthy and committed to his cause . |
| 28 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |
| 29 | The bitch had grown up alongside the children , and was all the more charming for it , but bureaucracy had spoken . |
| 30 | The practice of fasting had grown up amongst the Pharisees as a sign of their superiority . |