Example sentences of "[pers pn] builds up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | From experience and familiarity he or she builds up a mental pictorial encyclopaedia based on study of museum collections , information from archaeological research and accumulated knowledge from books and papers describing objects of particular periods and cultures . |
| 2 | She builds up a full and fascinating portrait of a community with an acute sense of history which gives her descriptions a unique dimension . |
| 3 | Gradually he builds up a collection of all sorts of different books and reads them secretly at night while his wife sleeps . |
| 4 | You let them play against one another and sometimes you transfer a player from one club to another , so that it builds up a mutual admiration society . |
| 5 | By drawing together a variety of material , it builds up a picture of inequity which ‘ is inexcusable in a democratic society which prides itself on being humane ’ . |
| 6 | Over the summer it builds up a surplus of fat and as autumn draws on it returns to an underground burrow . |
| 7 | When the team trusts itself it builds up a view not simply about the one school and what needs to be done in small detail but also about the pressures and demands of society as a whole . |
| 8 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |