Example sentences of "i grow up " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I grow up , I thought , I 'm going to join the Socialist Party and become a spy . |
| 2 | ‘ Hope I get legs like yours when I grow up . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I should like to marry Tory when I grow up , ’ he told Marie decisively during a rainy afternoon which drove the children in to the chilly shelter of the Aberknowe kitchen . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh I 'm Vanessa , and when I grow up I 'm going to be an actress . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ When I grow up I 'll make sure I 've always got enough money for a whole pound of sausages and eggs to go with them , ’ Sally thought , but she never said anything . |
| 6 | I think I might consider a medical career when I grow up . |
| 7 | When I grow up |
| 8 | History of searching for a role ( ‘ What will I be when I grow up ? ’ ) . |
| 9 | When I grow up I 'd like to be … |
| 10 | When I grow up . |
| 11 | ‘ When I grow up , ’ he said , smiling at her phrase , ‘ I do n't want my life to be anything like theirs . |
| 12 | when I grow up . |
| 13 | I would I 'd like to be a dance teacher when I grow up and in my spare time I would do I would like to do dancing and swimming . |
| 14 | when I grow up mummy I 'll |
| 15 | I bet you when I grow up I 'll be tall |
| 16 | ‘ He started going on again about me going into mainstream journalism , how a friend of his had contacts in Fleet Street , why the hell did n't I grow up and settle down like normal girls , why did I go around with Jake . |
| 17 | I think that had I grown up with my parents only twenty years before , I would not now believe this . |
| 18 | Thinking back to those days , I realize how different I should be today had I grown up in the suburban house in London , suggested to my mother . |
| 19 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 20 | I grew up in a house where the smells of preparation and cooking began , below stairs , not long after I rose . |
| 21 | As I grew up in Kensal Green — which is just up the road from Ladbroke Grove — it became one of the areas the first wave of black immigrants came to . |
| 22 | I grew up on movies and have always believed that if cameras had been invented before Ur and Og first trod the stone age boards then no one would ever have bothered to invent plays , they would have just leapt straight into the cinema . |
| 23 | ‘ I grew up on this train , eh ? |
| 24 | Back in the old days , in the Fifties , before the nights of car-park-training , people kept big dogs , with names like Nero and Saladin , Sakkie and Doris ; dogs that roamed the sandy ex-Servicemen 's estate where I grew up , on the edge of Johannesburg , a jumble of sandy streets named after English kings and queens . |
| 25 | ‘ I grew up in the Swinging Sixties , ’ she broke in : ‘ Beatlemania , flower children , magic mushrooms . |
| 26 | I wanted to be Agnetha , the blonde one , when I grew up . ’ |
| 27 | I GREW up between two households , my father 's and that of my mother 's father and mother . |
| 28 | In the villages where I grew up , we did not play with Catholics . |
| 29 | ‘ I grew up in what was , at least in principle , a model democracy . |
| 30 | I grew up close to my godmother so as a child I was inoculated with the theatre . |