Usa "grown-up" in una frase

1. How can a grown-up woman

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2. They are not really friendly to Peter, who had a mischievous way of stealing up behind them and trying to blow them out; but they are so fond of fun that they were on his side to-night, and anxious to get the grown-ups out of the way

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3. Bible to a grown-up, only with some biblical stories and

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4. A very grown-up Daniel

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5. children"--little Peggy and her mother always spoke of the grown-up

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6. grown-up woman," while Harry spreads out on the hearth a goodly store

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7. ” She looked at this grown-up in a cowboy costume, who had the audacity to say with hayseed casualness that the emotional horror Truman suffered was a welcome gift

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8. One could have said that things were ticking along with military precision if it wasn’t for Steve who was roaming the stands making lewd gestures, not being able to hold his water like a grown-up should, making faces and obscene gestures at passers-by, and generally blending in seamlessly with the rest of the fair-going crowd

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9. So we act in ways to please grown-ups

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10. I assumed that we’d rent a small flat near the university, like everybody else did, and looked forward to this as finally an experience of grown-up freedom

11. In later years I walked among my grown-up children, as I thought of them, caressing each one and telling each how proud I was of it for having grown up so beautiful, so courageous and strong

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12. Of how many, children or grown-ups, can that be said? Una Meredith is sweetness personified

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13. Narayan had indicated that he liked her and wished to marry her (when they are both grown-up); she liked him as a friend but consented to it nevertheless

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14. am the grown-up-with-a-ton-of-therapy version of the angry,

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15. again, only with the added advantage of having no grown-ups to

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16. Grown-ups can take

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17. Tabby looked forward excitedly to when the grown-ups in the house would move the tree house across from Tindel to her

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18. Children believe and readily absorb much of what grown-ups tell them about the world and these ideas may have become a part of your partner

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19. But when these same children become grown-up men and women, would it not be folly for them to cling to these earlier and misconceived notions regarding their father? As men and women they should now discern their father's love in all these early disciplines

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20. grown-up crow will feed their aged mothers and the baby sheep will kneel

21. So is a child kneeling by a bedside, or a grown-up kneeling in the pews at church

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22. With the help of Gled who merrily chatted away the whole time, mother dressed me in my grandfathers splendid clothing and we made our way to the square, others, decked out in their finery, were going the same way and the journey became a procession, the variety of the colours the candidates were clad in resembled a sky full of rainbows, to make their sons look respectable most of the parents had used up more than one seasons work, that was how important it was to them that their son became a man, this year there were thirty-eight candidates for the coming of age ceremony and being the same age we all knew each other and began to play around pushing and shoving, full of high spirits and confidence, knowing in our innocent childish courage that none of us would fail in our rite of passage, the square was crowded with villagers all in their best attire, and a party mood rippled through the crowd, with everyone chatting away and laughing with their neighbours, children played their games in and out of the grown-ups legs

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23. After we had eaten, the priest gathered all the youngsters to sit in front of the grown-ups, and then he told everyone else to sit, when they were all comfortable he then asked me if I would do them the honour, to stand up and relate everything that had happened on my quest

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24. Often he would treat me the same as he would a grown-up

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25. Young children possess this power of involuntary attention to a greater degree than grown-up people

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26. He had hoped that she would stay here with him, sharing his glory as the only grown-up wizard on the planet

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27. It was just that I’d convinced myself that if I was seventy, then my grown-up twins had been lobbying those high up in local government on my behalf, and it was deflating to learn that they had done nothing of the sort

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28. what the grown-ups said

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29. him to stay but terrified that his last remaining grown-up friend would desert

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30. A grown-up troll

31. Anyway, how could grown-ups live in a world without rules?”

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32. just stupid grown-ups who haven’t learned anything yet

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33. In fact, we were really proud of ourselves and felt incredibly grown-up

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34. An individual with a grown-up Lotus and awakened soul becomes God-like as he can create love just by his thought

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35. not be grown-up either

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36. As history unerringly demonstrated, as a grown-up, man tends to grouse about the perceived wrongs of the past instead of learning from the wrongs of the history

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37. As the grown-ups go on with this dirty business, the

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38. There’s no hope for the victims, nor for all yet to be violated, until the “grown-ups” who run things can say the ugly words for those ugly deeds out loud

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39. Grown-ups and kids

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40. have a grown-up daughter unmarried in his house

41. His parents were doctors and he’d grown-up in a five-bedroomed house, complete with gravel driveway and a garden that you couldn’t quite see the bottom of

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42. Similar scenes could be observed in the world of grown-ups

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43. He told me how grown-up I’d become and that he wanted to be my ‘special friend

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44. Even this one, this well-bred, well-taught bright being, was so unimaginative that she actually saw no reason why a man's grown-up daughter

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45. The clearness now in his life if only he had not done that! Nobody sofa-ridden in it, no grown-up thwarting daughters, and himself vigorous, distinguished, entirely desirable as a husband, choosing with the mellow, yet not too mellow, wisdom of middle life exactly who was best fitted to share the advantages he had to offer

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46. It was his family that dated him: his grey-haired wife, his grown-up daughters

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47. He was a kindly stranger appointed by the Church to walk hand in hand with her along the path of grown-up life

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48. Someday, if she continued intrepidly in this career of maternity which seemed to be marked out for her, she, too, would be happily pouring out coffee for a grown-up and successful man-child, all her impatiences and pangs long since forgotten

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49. You clearly couldn't have a grown-up man-child to love and be proud of if you hadn't begun him in time, he had at some period or other to be begun

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50. Dobson, and the hôtel, in which English Church services were held, and which was at that moment, though the season was over, being stayed in by several representative English spinsters, and a clergyman also from England with a wife and grown-up daughters, most respectable nice ladies who all took him out every day twice, once after breakfast and once after tea, for a little walk--the hôtel decided, putting its heads together in the manager's office, that it would, using tact, encourage the Dobsons to depart

51. He adored her like that, so gentle, giving no trouble, accepting the situation and his comfortings and his pattings of the hand on his arm and all his further explanations and asseverations with a grown-up dear reasonableness he had not yet seen in her

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52. this in adolescents and grown-ups with a voice, a choice, and plenty of muscle…

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53. If she had she certainly would have melted, for though she had no children but her grown-up son she felt very guilty; for it was her son who had been sent the afternoon before to Minehead by Priscilla with a list as long as his arm of the cakes and things to be ordered for the party

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54. It’s two grown-ups and two girls

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55. What he liked to hear about was the money Priscilla had scattered among the cottagers, how much each woman had got, whether it had been spent or not, whether she had a husband, or grown-up children; and best of all he liked to hear about the money Mrs

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56. Or perhaps she still would have? When she first met him, he was her teacher, and he had seemed so big, so grown-up

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57. He was the only grown-up who understood her

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58. However, while all this was brewing, having grown-ups

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59. acter, and the grown-ups in his life feared it would be a big-

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60. ---"These grown-ups don't

61. It seems that several of my acquaintances who were in a hurry to taste grown-up life back in

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62. and all grown-ups in my life pointed this out con-

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63. grown-ups having sex, only realising later than one was your

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64. She was bored with her life, her kids were grown-up and didn’t need her, she

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65. She never understood grown-ups; they

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66. ‘Yes, but think about the last time we trusted grown-ups!’ said

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67. “How is it that grown-ups

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68. This is what grown-ups live for anyway,

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69. It was the most mature statement of grown-up intent I had ever heard from her before

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70. "It's nothing but misfortunes now," she added suddenly with that peculiarly sedate air which children try hard to assume when they want to speak like grown-up people

71. " she said, with her most grown-up air

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72. "If one could have a fine house, full of nice girls, or go traveling, the summer would be delightful, but to stay at home with three selfish sisters and a grown-up boy was enough to try the patience of a Boaz," complained Miss Malaprop, after several days devoted to pleasure, fretting, and ennui

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73. That will amuse us and keep you out of mischief," said Amy in her most grown-up tone

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74. For what greater nonsense can there be in connection with what we are now discussing than for an infant to appear in swaddling clothes in the first scene of the first act, and in the second a grown-up bearded man? Or what greater absurdity can there be than putting before us an old man as a swashbuckler, a young man as a poltroon, a lackey using fine language, a page giving sage advice, a king plying as a porter, a princess who is a kitchen-maid? And then what shall I say of their attention to the time in which the action they represent may or can take place, save that I have seen a play where the first act began in Europe, the second in Asia, the third finished in Africa, and no doubt, had it been in four acts, the fourth would have ended in America, and so it would have been laid in all four quarters of the globe? And if truth to life is the main thing the drama should keep in view, how is it possible for any average understanding to be satisfied when the action is supposed to pass in the time of King Pepin or Charlemagne, and the principal personage in it they represent to be the Emperor Heraclius who entered Jerusalem with the cross and won the Holy Sepulchre, like Godfrey of Bouillon, there being years innumerable between the one and the other?

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75. Now it was a home of grown-up people

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76. "Why, Master Linton," said I, "three hundred miles is a great distance; and ten years seem very different in length to a grown-up person compared with what they do to you

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77. Two grown-ups throwing things at each other

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78. It was part of being a grown-up, being a woman and a mother

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79. He was still speaking in his I’m-the-grown-up-you’re-the-crazy-one voice, but she could see a spark of anger in his eyes

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80. It still seemed like a minor miracle to her that he could walk and talk and dress himself, and now here he was living this whole other life separate from her, with big, grown-up, scary dramas taking place

81. This was a grown-up type of crying: involuntary, soft, sad weeping

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82. Jane had spent most of her grown-up life sidestepping confrontations

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83. “A grown-up will talk to him,” said Jane as she turned the key in the ignition

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84. The two brothers and one of bin Laden’s grown-up sons had also been killed, but bin Laden’s wives and other children had been tied up and left behind and were then taken into Pakistani custody

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85. Running the sidhe-seers is precisely what a grown-up Dani would try to do

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86. Mr Starr had promised that he would look in some time during the afternoon to say a few words to the Sunday School children, and consequently on this particular afternoon all the grown-ups were looking forward so eagerly to hearing him again that not much was done in the way of lessons

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87. Nellie was wearing a grown-up woman's blouse, and by way of ulster she had on an old-fashioned jacket of thick cloth with large pearl buttons

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88. This was also a grown-up woman's garment: it was shaped to fit the figure of a tall woman with wide shoulders and a small waist; consequently, it did not fit Nellie to perfection

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89. Bert would have liked to have cocoa also, but hearing that the grown-ups were going to have tea, he thought it would be more manly to do the same

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90. Pocket, as a grown-up infant with no notion of his own interests, they showed the complacent forbearance I had heard them express

91. The enthusiasm was not confined to the boys and girls, for while the speechmaking was going on inside, a little crowd of grown-up children were gathered round outside the entrance, worshipping the motor car: and when the little party came out the crowd worshipped them also, going into imbecile ecstasies of admiration of their benevolence and their beautiful clothes

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92. `He wants that there 'orse, mister, the one with the real 'air on,' said Charley, smiling indulgently like a grown-up person who realized the absurdity of the demand

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93. He had affectionate memories of Caris as a child, when he had been her all-knowing grown-up cousin

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94. I was also proud of myself, a notorious bad sport, for being a gracious grown-up, something I have never been

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95. Probably the grown-ups are mouthing more to each other

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96. • There will be moments when you have to be a grown-up

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97. The same one that turned Tom Hanks into a successful grown-up

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98. Five children and nine grown-ups pushed their ways in — and oh, what an amazing sight it was that now met their eyes!

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99. When she showed him things she had found -- a goldfinch's egg, a Painted Lady fluttering in a jam jar or a fungus that looked exactly like orange peel -- he took her seriously and talked to her as he would to a grown-up person

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100. To ask his advice about a damaged rabbit and discuss it with him would be very grown-up