Example sentences of "have grown [adv] from " in BNC.

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1 Rachel 's Dairy has grown slowly from selling pots of cream in local shops to a distribution network that covers a large chunk of Britain .
2 We do not sufficiently realise that we are no longer discussing a treaty that , like a tree , has grown only from the trunk of the European Commission , the European Parliament and the treaty of Rome .
3 Second , heroin use has grown rapidly from a small baseline , and , whilst we shall have to describe the prevalence of heroin use ‘ hidden ’ from agencies , particularly in middle-class areas , it is not a long-standing activity suddenly discovered by labellers which is redefined as a problem .
4 He though that we had grown apart from him and he became upset that none of us were around him any more , talking to him any more .
5 The population of Dronfield township had grown steadily from 1,182 in 1801 to 2,998 in 1861 .
6 No dog , he noticed , but Cara 's son , the silent child who had always made him feel so ill at ease , still sitting by the hearth as if he had grown there from a morose three-year-old into a clean and tidy , almost dandified five .
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