Example sentences of "[vb past] built up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was almost as if the independent life I 'd built up of necessity was being disrupted by Grant 's presence . |
| 2 | And I think it was an example of the trust that we 'd built up over the weeks and months that we were able to do it . |
| 3 | It survived for quite a long time , until the accumulating ash had built up to such a thickness that its chain would no longer allow it to keep above the ash , and it died , its dreadful last moments clearly visible in its taut body , arched back and straining neck . |
| 4 | The casualty was now heading south west , and the swell had built up to some 20ft . |
| 5 | Health chiefs admit that the queue had built up to ‘ unacceptable levels ’ but claim they are now down to 10 weeks . |
| 6 | Unfortunately the rapport I had built up with the director was wasted , as the commercial he was working on went wrong and had to be done again , so I met my new director over a pie and a pint in my local before shooting started . |
| 7 | In those parts of the buildings that were protected against the rains a yellow film , like nicotine staining , had built up on the marble . |
| 8 | At the start of the next session , mindful of the head of steam that had built up on the issue , Ede announced that the Government had decided to recommend the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the possible limitation or modification of the death penalty . |
| 9 | He said a film of dirt and oil had built up on roads during the long , dry spell . |
| 10 | The town 's magistrates were told that tension had built up for a year after a decision to dissolve the partnership . |
| 11 | Thomas 's house , which he could barely keep up , was run mostly on the income from a small chain of modern toy shops that he had built up for his wife over the years . |
| 12 | In short , therefore , by 1939 pressure had built up for certain strategic solutions to the problems of London and the big cities . |
| 13 | One of the less well-known consequences was that , when the companies who wrote unit-linked business wished to introduce personal pensions , they found that their natural mode of operation led them to return on death the fund which had built up for the policyholder , rather than any specific guaranteed rate of return . |
| 14 | And if you do die before your 65th birthday , your dependents would receive the cash benefit that had built up at that time , or Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit — whichever is the greater . |
| 15 | He said the debts had built up following the collapse of his business . |
| 16 | The catalogue of hurts which had built up over the years was considerable . |
| 17 | The prejudices had built up over centuries but had become more accentuated since independence in 1948 . |
| 18 | In that time , its geography had changed little , the only difference being that more and more houses had squeezed themselves on to the mound of detritus that had built up over generations to form the hill on which the city squatted , above the highest level of flood the river could attain . |
| 19 | It was an enormous leap , which he was able to make by virtue of the professional competence and political significance he had built up over the preceding twenty years . |
| 20 | A weighty body of objective opinion — of HMI , teachers , academics and local authorities — had built up during the 1970s to support the common-sense view that a pupil leaving school aged sixteen at the youngest should be prepared for the responsibilities and opportunities associated with the age of majority which he or she would attain no more than two years later . |
| 21 | Furthermore , it gave him an excellent excuse not to apply his mind to the dismal subjects rearmament , the war in Spain , relations with Hitler , the distressed areas the weight of which had built up during his absence . |
| 22 | His eyes were still on her , and in an attempt to restore the illusion of chumminess they had built up during dinner she went on , ‘ I wonder what the actor playing Ophelia will make of it ? |
| 23 | Before he died in 1983 , Swire had the exhilarating experience of watching one of his Cathay Pacific aircraft landing at Gatwick airport , the first of innumerable scheduled passenger flights from and to Hong Kong by the airline he had built up as an international enterprise . |
| 24 | Laughter seemed to break down some of the barrier of embarrassment that had built up between them and when Carrie lit two candles she handed one to Seb and said , ‘ Good night , Seb . |
| 25 | The first part of an explanation would be the extent of belief in Hitler which had built up in the years before 1940 . |
| 26 | Dressed in the plant 's uniform of white overalls and cap , he was conducting an exercise to release the excess energy that had built up in the honeycomb matrix of graphite blocks which surrounded the uranium nuclear fuel . |
| 27 | This was because of the vast trade which had built up in trans-border data flow — the international exchange across frontiers of electronically processed information . |
| 28 | The tension and frustration that had built up in the claustrophobic atmosphere of their life in Northumberland had finally spilt over when Louise had taken them both to the West End to buy the birthday dress . |
| 29 | Even before the war with Spain ended in 1609 the Dutch were preparing to attack various parts of the empire the Portuguese had built up in the Indian Ocean in the previous hundred years , stretching as far east as Java and the other Spice Islands near it , and later on they also attacked the Portuguese possessions in Brazil . |
| 30 | On learning of the information , the brokerage house sold a large stock position which it had built up in the client 's shares . |