Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] built up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Gradually we built up a common world , partly based on the great of the past , like Jane Austen , partly on Ivy . |
| 3 | Recklessly she built up the lie , agitatedly aware that she was protesting too much in her desperation but unable to prevent herself . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Eventually he built up a collection of bells which he played in time to the tunes he would play on his harmonium . |
| 6 | I was so stunned you 'd managed to pull off such a coup — but I should n't have been surprised , remembering how you built up the company from nothing . ’ |
| 7 | In Monet 's The Gare Saint-Lazare pigment and cross-section analyses have shown how he built up the layers and how he achieved the dark tones using the bright colours of the impressionist palette ; no black was used . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |