Example sentences of "[vb past] grow up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesus chucked out the rubbish from the temple and swept away some of the traditions that had grown up over the years , insisting that his house become again a house of prayer for all nations . |
| 2 | Even the concrete floor had cracked with age and clusters of weeds had grown up through the uneven apertures . |
| 3 | The duchess , recalling her own upbringing amidst a lively brood of brothers and sisters , recognized this , and was gratified by the devotion and closeness that had grown up between the girls . |
| 4 | The literary articles were the result of her home study of literature — she had grown up during the establishment of the free library system in Britain , which she used extensively to supplement her elementary education . |
| 5 | A coconut belt had grown up along the south-western coastal fringe during the late eighteenth century . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Religious communities at St-Martin , Tours , or St-Denis near Paris , had grown up at the tombs of martyrs in cemetery sites outside Roman civitates , and by the ninth century housed over a hundred clergy or monks apiece . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had grown up with the impression that women 's motives were suspect , and so when Tom Rooney had given him advice he had found it so easy to believe , because it was what — subconsciously — he expected . |
| 10 | So you had to look for someone who had grown up with the idea that you could kill . |
| 11 | At the back of the platform was a fence , and although it had apparently been painted white in the early 1900's , in later years the paint had peeled off and bushes had grown up on the cutting side to provide a new backdrop to the isolated platform beside the overgrown railway . |
| 12 | The bitch had grown up alongside the children , and was all the more charming for it , but bureaucracy had spoken . |
| 13 | This new town , a product of modern civilization , had grown up near the ancient Egdon Woods , where the paths over the hills had not changed for a thousand years . |
| 14 | She said with a shock that she realised she had grown up among the men on her father 's farm without seeing them as people you could conceivably fancy . |
| 15 | This huge old hospital is known by the Milanese as the Ca'Grande , or ‘ Great House ’ , and was built by Francesco Sforza in 1456 as a way of bringing together in one place about thirty little hospitals which had grown up around the Porta Romana . |
| 16 | He might have said to her that some time in the middle of the nineteenth century a cult had grown up around the idea of the home . |
| 17 | Such a proposal is now of another era , however , and I was present when an ex-Dean of Academic Studies at the college presented a paper ( Stead 1980 ) attacking the trend to expensive , amalgamated police units which had grown up in the previous two decades . |
| 18 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 19 | There had grown up in the Commandos a tradition that to be a tough regiment it was necessary to act tough all the time in the barracks and on leave , and they were liable to be badly dressed , ill disciplined and noisy in the streets and restaurants of Cairo . |
| 20 | They had grown up in the same house since they were babies and were virtually inseparable . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He had grown up in the splendid sixties , had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth , enjoyed whatever he did to the hilt and was enough of a gentleman never to look back . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He had grown up in the slums of Harlem and had been a promising middleweight fighter in the late fifties before the lure of alcohol had devastated his career . |
| 25 | Patrick had grown up in the Dublin that his mother now worked so hard to forget . |
| 26 | Donald Wilson was very much of the BBC 's ‘ old school ’ which had grown up in the wake of Lord Reith . |
| 27 | Probably the best-known , and perhaps the most notorious , selected settlement policy is that adopted in County Durham , where there were special difficulties in planning for the dispersed villages that had grown up in the coalfield ( Barr 1969 ; Blowers 1972 ) . |
| 28 | Round it a prolific jungle of weeds had grown up in the otherwise bare yard . |
| 29 | Thomas had grown up in the neighborhood of the machine and one day he had bought it , bringing it to England by boat and vaguely intending to explore the possibility of supplying a spring though he also liked it well as it still was . |
| 30 | He respected Marshal Tolonen greatly ; had grown up in the shadow of the old man . |