Example sentences of "i [verb] build [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd built up a picture of you , like the one my father cut out and gave me , but it 's nothing like you , Dimitri . |
| 2 | If not , how could I begin to build up a support network ? |
| 3 | ‘ I try to build up a rapport with the callers and being able to speak a little French helps , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Whichever point the patient selects , that is the age from which I start to build up a picture of the character . |
| 5 | And I 'm a very keen golfer and I had built up a reputation erm by playing in open tour open tournaments and meeting professionals and |
| 6 | ‘ I 've built up a dossier on his drug and arms deals over the past few years . |
| 7 | I have built up a conception in which the agents belonging to a given economic class ( defined at the level of property holding ) may be distributed in various ways into more or less strongly formed social collectivities of various degrees of political pertinence . |
| 8 | I have built up a rock structure to the water height in the middle of the tank . |
| 9 | ‘ Over the years I have built up a collection of around 1,700 . ’ |