Example sentences of "build [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way Dr. Bach built up a complete medicine chest of thirty-eight flowers to cover all known negative states of mind . |
| 2 | He built up a complete instrument and travelled round the Dales on a horse and cart playing it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The South Saxons whose numbers we shall never know with any accuracy , built up a complex Wealden farming system , backed by a communication network that can only have been an extension of the lesser economic roads of the Romano-Britons . |
| 6 | The Geordies were seemingly cruising as they built up a 3-0 half-time lead . |
| 7 | He may have inherited some of his eccentricity from his father , Bernard , who built up a vast multi-national engineering company from scratch and then acquired a circus as a sideline , training his own Lippizaner stallions . |
| 8 | The industry built up a new audience not by giving a social elite privileges but rather by suggesting that anyone who had paid their admission price would be given value for money and in particular would be given films that had been made with care and attention . |
| 9 | Indeed , " the main theme " of the book is the argument that the triangular pattern of cooperation between government and the two sides of industry built up a new form of harmony which lasted until the mid-sixties and led to the trade unions and employers ' associations being elevated to a new sort of status so that they became " governing institutions " sharing some of the political power and attributes of the state itself . |
| 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 | Basil built up a strong healthy tradition in Primary Art in West Riding schools , slowly and firmly , and in so doing never worked against the natural grain of childhood . |
| 12 | In one of the Belfast inner-city communities , I built up a strong personal relationship with a very poor family . |
| 13 | Mr Afman built up a profitable portfolio of loans , mostly to small , independent film studios and heavily secured . |
| 14 | Prost built up a solid lead of 28 seconds before he pitted and was then able to run his own race to the chequered flag with most excitement focused on the battle for second between Senna and the surging Schumacher . |
| 15 | The Siemens family maintained both British and German connections , for William 's brother Werner remained in Berlin and built up a great electrical engineering business there , making among other things the first trams . |
| 16 | In several important ways , they resemble ourselves , for they are heirs to an ancient history and deep culture , and built up a great sea-going empire through gruelling effort and wise leadership . |
| 17 | Tom Cox and Lee Grant also scored as Colts built up a 6–0 lead . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Carleton built up a sizeable estate in the eastern and midland counties , partly by inheritance , partly through the second of his three marriages , to Elizabeth Mohun , a Northamptonshire widow who brought him the manor of Overstone , where he mostly resided . |
| 20 | More fundamentally , the humiliation of the defeat by Japan in 1905 , exacerbated from 1908 by a series of diplomatic reversals in the Balkans , built up a widespread sense of frustration over foreign affairs . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Having bought West Dean with their profits from the law , the Lewkenors built up a considerable wealth from the corn trade around Chichester and then took over as M.P.s for the city . |
| 24 | He extended the family fortunes by marrying a Welsh heiress , and built up a considerable personal wealth by acting as a mortgage broker to less fortunate or less thrifty members of the gentry . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Gradually we built up a common world , partly based on the great of the past , like Jane Austen , partly on Ivy . |
| 27 | In his nigh on sixty years , he had lost two fortunes and built up a third . |
| 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |