Example sentences of "the [noun sg] have grow [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their publicity for the film , Warner Bros boasted of the way in which the story had grown out of an actual incident and of Judge Musmanno 's involvement in the subsequent litigation , and also of how ex-miners had been brought in to ensure authentic mining scenes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is small wonder that the practice has grown up in recent years of referring , however inaccurately , to a mistress as a ‘ common law wife ’ . |
| 4 | He says many people in the village have grown up with the noise of the jets . |
| 5 | The trousers and the cheek had grown up with her , but the affection had gone underground , at least for a while . |
| 6 | The town has grown up around the magnificent 13th century Scaliger castle which towers above the water from a sheer rock and offers the most fantastic views . |
| 7 | No point in me hanging on to the stuff , cos the baby 's grown out of it , that 's it , is n't it ? |
| 8 | And indeed , the habit had grown up of issuing acts of revocation well after the minorities were in practice over , at the age of twenty-five ; James V was so scrupulous on this point that his was announced in Rouen , where he was on his twenty-fifth birthday . |
| 9 | The drawing and the birdwatching had grown up as complementary interests from a very young age . |
| 10 | While he considers that salaries in the City have grown out of all proportion , he is convinced that corporate managers are falling behind in the remuneration they receive . |
| 11 | The bitch had grown up alongside the children , and was all the more charming for it , but bureaucracy had spoken . |
| 12 | You do n't have to read the book , it 's rubbish , but I mean you can just say , if you remember the title , The Imperial Presidency , here was a view that the presidency had become dominant , the presidency had grown out of all proportion to the intentions of the founding fathers and needed to be reined back . |
| 13 | Buick 's share of the market has grown by about a percentage point , to 6.5% . |