Example sentences of "[verb] built up the [noun] " in BNC.

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1	I have been impressed with the way Wilkinson has built up the squad over the last few years .
2	He spent hours with the local clergyman who had his own private store of medicines such as Epsom salts , gentian , laudanum , and quantities of port which he believed built up the strength , and he had seen for himself how garlic had done wonders for children with whooping cough .
3	Having built up the reserves , it is prepared to use them in difficult times , and that is the right thing to do .
4	He had built up the School into one of the most successful and efficiently run Schools in Irish Methodism .
5	‘ We had built up the kind of company my father could leave to go off and direct a film for five months without worrying , ’ says Brian .
6	The first was William Purser who over twenty-five years had built up the Delta mission , originated work for the blind , organised teacher-training and supervised the small theological school of the diocese .
7	They had built up the industry on cheap labour , and their only answer to the challenge of foreign competition was to attempt to cut back the limited improvements in wages and hours which had been secured during and immediately after the war .
8	We were in no position to ensure any security for Pateman … he had built up the District but had perhaps nearly exhausted his pioneering drive .
9	They had built up the fabric in their minds again and could even feel some weary well-being as they neared Weem and saw it sheltering between the steep hills and the flood plain of the Tay .
10	‘ The Space study required for the national curriculum is based largely on the library , and we have built up the tasks together , with an emphasis on group work , ’ said a head of science .
11	Never rinse reusable filter materials in tap water and never use detergents or you will damage or totally destroy the beneficial bacteria that have built up the efficiency of the filter unit .

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