Example sentences of "grow up [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best wines are made from the highest vines northwest of Grauves , which grow up to a height of 220 metres , and from those in an east-facing gulley , south-west of the village . |
| 2 | I was concerned to understand what it was like to leave school and grow up in a world with little work . |
| 3 | He had grown up with a love of the countryside . |
| 4 | No I especially hope it will be read by sceptics , by people who have grown up with a kind of psychologically inspired dismissal of religion , people who 've become so sophisticated , so busy they have no time for it , people who are so bemused by technology , by the greatness of human achievement , the computers , the moon rockets , the medical advances , that in their worship of human talent they forget that there 's a point where human power ends and the power of God begins . |
| 5 | The new generation has grown up in a continuation of that climate , one of falsity and evasion . |
| 6 | It was not that this could be attributed to a weakening of moral fibre on their part , but rather that they had grown up in a society in which there were few straightforward moral guidelines , and into ‘ a community which is thoroughly confused about morals , and … their behaviour reflects that confusion ’ . |
| 7 | But most readers of this book will have grown up in a society in which the major comparable distinction is between kin and non-kin , and in which it is assumed , or even insisted upon , that kin relationships ought not to enter into the non-kin sphere at all . |
| 8 | the women 's traditional role of instinctive carer is one explanation , particularly amongst women who have grown up in a family of disabled or dependent relatives , willingness to accept low pay is another . |
| 9 | They know the grandchildren will grow up with a mixture of character traits collected from way back , on both sides of the family , but they like to think that something of theirs , some good trait or talent , will be packed somewhere in their grandchildren 's psychological ‘ baggage ’ when they set out on their journey into adult life . |
| 10 | They will grow up in a world of many hostile enemies and one or two protective parents . |
| 11 | Can you imagine them growing up under a cloud like that ? |
| 12 | ‘ Speaking generally , ’ Bray wrote in Boy Labour and Apprenticeship ( 1911 ) , ‘ the city-bred youth is growing up in a state of unrestrained liberty ’ , and describing how ‘ the habits of school and home are rapidly sloughed off in the new life of irresponsible freedom ’ he agreed that ‘ the large amount of money he has to spend on himself is by no means an unmixed benefit ’ . |
| 13 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 14 | A child grows up in a community in which people moan and cry when they are in pain ( as he does himself ) ; in which they also use expressions like ‘ I 'm in pain' and ‘ I 've got toothache ’ ; in which others react sympathetically to their linguistic , as to their non-linguistic , expressions of pain ; and so he comes to use the linguistic expression himself in the place of the natural expression . |
| 15 | Fortunately , one or two civil servants realise that the government could build up trouble if it allows a whole generation to grow up with a dislike for nuclear weapons . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ says McPherson , ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ — his voice is breaking with emotion — ‘ Oh God , Mary , I do n't want our kids to grow up in a world like this , with man an enemy to man , and cats crawling all over the books , in a cold water walk-up behind the subway depot . |
| 17 | I grew up as a child with a longing to hunt big game , and from 1930 to 1940 I took every opportunity to do so ; for this I have no regrets . |
| 18 | One recent exresident , Kenny Taylor , who himself grew up as a son of a criminal in the East-End , says , ‘ Since becoming a Christian , I have passed my driving test — I was driving at the age of ten , but now I drive with tax and insurance ! ’ |
| 19 | For example , J. Goody has argued that West African states grew up as a result of monopoly control , by a small group of people , of military technology , which he terms the ‘ means of destruction ’ . |
| 20 | Balcha recovered , grew up as a page in Menelik 's household and later fought with distinction at Adua , where in 1896 the Abyssinians destroyed an Italian army . |
| 21 | I grew up with a thing about alcohol — I think that 's got a lot to do with why I preferred a line of coke rather than a drink . |
| 22 | Small wonder if their son grew up with a taste for chivalrous pursuits , warlike deeds and sometimes foolhardy enterprise . |
| 23 | Again like Donald White , young Arsenio grew up in a houseful of women , living with his mother and grandmother . |
| 24 | Kinnock grew up in a society in which it was natural to be Labour and which Labour controlled . |
| 25 | They contributed because on the one hand , they were asked and understood that what they had to say was important , and also because too many of them grew up in a world without such books . |
| 26 | We grew up in a world of chainstore high fashion , middle-of-the-road revolution , cover-version original pop music . |
| 27 | He grew up in a world of feud and betrayal , the hedgerow ambush on the country road , the British officers or agents in their rooms , given two minutes to say their prayers and then ‘ plugged ’ through the sheets and blankets of the beds in which they lay . |
| 28 | She had been a battered baby , grew up in a succession of foster homes , and then married a man who regularly beat her up . |