Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have grown [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These examples may seem to be somewhat removed from the experience of a child who has grown up in an inner-city slum . |
| 2 | That is a child who has grown up with books instead of wallpaper . |
| 3 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 4 | Just what did he think she was — a spoilt little rich kid who 'd grown up being waited on hand and foot ? |
| 5 | SPORTSWEAR FOR PEOPLE WHO 'VE GROWN UP WITH SPORT . |
| 6 | Savvy : I 'm from the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre project in London and our members include lesbians of First Nation and Third World descent , both people who 've grown up in this country and people who have n't , so we have a very diverse membership . |
| 7 | And many villagers who 've grown up with the noise of the jets say its the end of an era . |
| 8 | What it is like being married into a ‘ low status ’ family in the Midlands was described to me by Surjeet , a teacher in her early twenties who had grown up in Britain . |
| 9 | By 1966 , the Church was better able to take advantage of the new interest in its separatist stance because it now had a core of Ulstermen who had been converted under Ian Paisley s preaching and who had grown up with his politicized evangelicalism . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Councillors , who had grown up and learnt their politics in a labour movement founded on the dominance of Sheffield 's skilled workers in the steel and engineering industries , now had to formulate a response as this dominance quite literally crumbled to the ground . |
| 12 | Not bad for a girl who had grown up on a council estate . |
| 13 | The intellectual and emotional leader of that original collective was Fred Newman , a Korean war veteran , who had grown up in the Bronx , held a PhD in the philosophy of science from Stanford and abruptly turned to Marxism in the mid-1960s . |
| 14 | Susy was a long , tall , romantic girl who had grown up — lonely , she said — on a farm in Rhodesia . |
| 15 | On the other hand , Ken has been remembered and widely admired , not only by the Oxford Movement and their successors , as the noblest , most saintly and most charitable representative of the hundreds of Anglican clergy who had grown up under Puritan rule , sustained in their faith by the memory of King Charles the Martyr , ; they had come into their own at the Restoration but had later given up comfortable benefices to live in poverty , out of a scrupulous loyalty to a monarch to whose ecclesiastical ambitions they were utterly opposed . |
| 16 | Out of habit the Brigadier treated everybody as though they were local National Service boys who had grown up in the village and so knew every blade of grass as well as he did but who might be a bit hazy about certain family backgrounds and about things that had happened before their time . |
| 17 | Many of the mourners were young men who had grown up with her sons . |
| 18 | All this is a matter of statistics and arid generalities : but what the transformation of these local heaths meant to those who had grown up near them and upon them , what the change meant in detail , is revealed to us in the poetry of John Clare , who was born in 1793 on the edge of the heath country of northern Northamptonshire . |
| 19 | Butler and Stokes argue that the main source of new electoral strength for Labour in 1945 was the mobilisation of manual workers who had grown up in homes without a long tradition of participation in electoral politics . |
| 20 | But to me , who had grown up without knowing want , the prosperity which accrued around them through the fifties and early sixties was of little account . |
| 21 | These somewhat standard indictments nevertheless came from a scholar who had grown up in the York school under Archbishop Ecgberht and gained maturity in the household of Archbishop Aethelberht as master of the school until he joined the court of Charlemagne in the early 780s . |
| 22 | But even after the Equal Opportunities and Sex Discrimination Acts of 1975 , when the legal shackles were cast off , those who had grown up with them continued to tread carefully . |
| 23 | So you had to look for someone who had grown up with the idea that you could kill . |
| 24 | You had to be the , the perfect woman who was one , who had grown up from the little girl of the eighteen-thirties who was all bouncy and skippy and optimistic ; now she had to be very quiet , she was admired for her innocence , for her delicate nature and her dainty physique . |
| 25 | Another problem which Mr Lawson will have to address is the generation gap with the new Tory voters , who have grown up with Thatcherism . |
| 26 | The demand for good songs occurs when people who have grown up with pop are forced to accommodate their love of pop within their new sense of themselves as responsible adults . |
| 27 | These young people who have grown up under Israeli occupation take a much more radical approach than the PLO leadership . |
| 28 | Jobs apart , looking young and sexy may still seem important and desirable to many of those who have grown up in a society which lays such emphasis on youth and sex . |
| 29 | This can come as surprise to Christians who have grown up in homes where the expression of anger was frowned upon as being unworthy and sinful . |
| 30 | The pattern of extended family living persists with the few Bangladeshis who have grown up in Cardiff or elsewhere in Britain . |