Example sentences of "begin to build [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Over time , more complex social routines may be established as adult and infant begin to build up a set of expectancies or joint understandings regarding the meanings of particular behaviours .
2 In fact , the CEGB only began to build up a fund for decommissioning in 1976 .
3 From this remark , added to his earlier defence of his right to seclusion , Robbie was beginning to build up a picture of this man .
4 Piecemeal , we are beginning to build up a number of different techniques of analysis which will provide an answer to our initial problem : what is it that gives stretches of language in use their meaning and their unity ?
5 But once one lineage had begun to build up a team of genes for dealing with meat rather than grass , the process was self-reinforcing .
6 And once the other lineage had begun to build up a team of genes for dealing with grass rather than meat , that process was self-reinforcing in the other direction .
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