Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have grown [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 And many villagers who 've grown up with the noise of the jets say its the end of an era .
2 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 .
3 So you had to look for someone who had grown up with the idea that you could kill .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 People who have grown up with the sport when the pressures were not too great perhaps do not always think of others .
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