Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] build up " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a warmth and a charm about him that made for easy relations with most people , even the press , and they helped him build up the confidence that was needed all round . |
| 2 | While arguments regarding biologically-based sexual differences applied to all women , the Victorian scientists who developed them built up their theories on the basis of assumptions regarding the behaviour of women in their own class , and , as Elizabeth Fee has pointed out , there was therefore an essential circularity in their reasoning . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The wealth and power of the Victorian cities and the civic pride expressed in their impressive town halls , first enabled them to pioneer public services ; later it permitted them to build up teams of technical staff and take on a range of tasks of increasing complexity and sensitivity . |
| 5 | But Palmer 's connection with the Union enabled him to build up a link with leaders of the advanced wing of the high church party . |
| 6 | How did you build up this vocabulary and how do you maintain it ? |
| 7 | Why did it build up ? |