Example sentences of "[pers pn] built [adv prt] a " 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 We built up a projection of Theresa , and Theresa 's cancer became very real .
3 Gradually we built up a common world , partly based on the great of the past , like Jane Austen , partly on Ivy .
4 From the teachers ' comments and our own observations , we built up a picture of some of the processes involved in creating these conditions .
5 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 .
6 They built up a friendship with the Scottish band , This Poison ! / ‘ It was really cold at their house .
7 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 .
8 The Geordies were seemingly cruising as they built up a 3-0 half-time lead .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 He built up a hostel linked to the church for overseas students and asylum seekers .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Eventually he built up a collection of bells which he played in time to the tunes he would play on his harmonium .
18 He built up a complete instrument and travelled round the Dales on a horse and cart playing it .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 ) .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 Given his background , he built up a very effective little unit , then he offered the whole thing to us after the Flying Doctor business .
26 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 .
27 Meanwhile , in the Doubles final Ian McClure was heading for his second Irish title when he built up a 19-6 lead after 13 ends over James Talbot and Michael Nutt of Old Bleach .
28 And he built up a whole business just by picking famous names and saying , look I think your design is really outdated and it 's not doing your image any good .
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