Example sentences of "[pers pn] built up [art] " in BNC.
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1 | In one of the Belfast inner-city communities , I built up a strong personal relationship with a very poor family . |
2 | I built up the same sort of profile about the shipbuilder . |
3 | I was so stunned you 'd managed to pull off such a coup — but I should n't have been surprised , remembering how you built up the company from nothing . ’ |
4 | The first thing to note is that a chase should be built up in exactly the way you built up the whole of your book . |
5 | Recklessly she built up the lie , agitatedly aware that she was protesting too much in her desperation but unable to prevent herself . |
6 | We built up a projection of Theresa , and Theresa 's cancer became very real . |
7 | Gradually we built up a common world , partly based on the great of the past , like Jane Austen , partly on Ivy . |
8 | From the teachers ' comments and our own observations , we built up a picture of some of the processes involved in creating these conditions . |
9 | Between them they built up a dense network of services , institutions and training and campaign centres with inevitable duplications and therefore the constant need for co-ordination . |
10 | They built up a friendship with the Scottish band , This Poison ! / ‘ It was really cold at their house . |
11 | Thus they built up a considerable number of contact points across the action areas , and ( in Ipswich ) even started drawing up a register of people prepared to be considered as support workers . |
12 | The Geordies were seemingly cruising as they built up a 3-0 half-time lead . |
13 | Over the next few years they built up a 650-acre farm , a sizeable chunk of which was bought with 20,000 of Frances ' inheritance . |
14 | Going into manufacturing for himself , therefore , was something that came fairly easy to him and for most of the 1950s he built up a substantial furniture business . |
15 | Through applying Mach 's training ideas , by putting in unpaid coaching for two or three hours a day , five days a week , and by keeping his doors open , he built up a group of 30 young sprinters in Toronto within a year . |
16 | Born in Hereford in 1855 , he became known throughout his native county as he built up a detailed knowledge of the countryside of Herefordshire and the Welsh border . |
17 | He built up a hostel linked to the church for overseas students and asylum seekers . |
18 | Meanwile , Roland had become self-employed in 1978 , and while sub-contracting during the day , he built up a small nucleus of clients in the evenings with Alison 's help . |
19 | In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings . |
20 | Without legal connections and with little money , he judged that progress would be easier in the provinces and went to Manchester , where he built up a mainly civil practice until Sir David Napley , Jeremy Thorpe 's solicitor , happened to see him in action . |
21 | Eventually he built up a collection of bells which he played in time to the tunes he would play on his harmonium . |
22 | He built up a complete instrument and travelled round the Dales on a horse and cart playing it . |
23 | He built up a large practice , relying especially on ‘ native ’ clients , and earned enough money to enable him to live in a very opulent way , even if he did not save any considerable fortune . |
24 | He built up a considerable reputation in chart-making , his advice being sought in 1680 and again in 1685 by Samuel Pepys [ q.v. ] , secretary to the Admiralty . |
25 | His mills had a reputation for supplying everything from newsprint ( for The Times in the 1850s and 1860s ) to security paper , in which he built up a huge export business to Europe , the British empire , and South America for stamps and banknotes ( his customers included almost all the best-known banks ) . |
26 | Here he built up a trade in seeds , corn , manure , and fertilizer , and started a malt kiln in Driffield and a brewery and kilns in Malton . |
27 | Through the favour of the king and of the Earl of Gloucester he built up a large estate in Kent and elsewhere : a royal grant of 1315 enumerates lands in forty-six places spread through eight counties . |
28 | He was one of the first eminent European scientists to make a career in the USA , and rapidly became a lion : his lectures and books were popular , and he built up a school and museum at Harvard . |
29 | Given his background , he built up a very effective little unit , then he offered the whole thing to us after the Flying Doctor business . |
30 | It appeared that Tyminski had left Poland penniless in 1969 , travelling first to Sweden and then to Canada , where he built up a business empire centred on a computer automation firm . |