grow to like

He was really growing to like the chief of staff.

It was one of the things that people grew to like.

And if so, he might grow to like it here.

She was my patient for the last three months, and I really grew to like her.

I ran one for a year and grew to like it a great deal.

At first they seemed kind of silly, but I grew to like them.

I think he's grown to like his rooms very much.

The two eventually grow to like and respect each other, however.

He had grown to like the old man and wanted to spare him.

Neither man had ever grown to like it, but that was the way things were.

Not bad; in fact, he might grow to like this business of eating.

"I could grow to like a hat of this nature."

Maybe I could grow to like the guy, incompetence and all.

He was actually growing to like the sense of invisibility it gave him.

Somehow, by the end of it all, and despite his best efforts, I had grown to like him.

As they spend time together, however, she grows to like and respect her patient.

I'd grown to like my classmates and felt they liked me, too.

But I almost grew to like the young man who impersonated him.

But then I got used to him, and grew to like him.

Leslie had grown to like his independence and wanted to work only for himself.

I cannot say they were pretty, but I grew to like them.

I've grown to like the people I work with.

They have grown to like doing their own thing.

I've grown to like a little something this time of evening."

That is the kind of "retreat" even a conservative could grow to like.