Example sentences of "built the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Roirbak had built the machine to appear humanoid , more so than any of the others in the building , it was like seeing a real dead body lying there . |
| 2 | Our best profit growth has come yet again in Retail , where Peter and his team have built the portfolio up in true recession-beating style and generated good profit growth whilst servicing a thoroughly depressed High Street . |
| 3 | He 'd built the hotel himself , on a bombsite , and developed goodwill from scratch in competition with the best and oldest hotels in London by applying a maxim which , according to him , has fallen into disrepute — namely that quality pays . |
| 4 | The architect of the college built the hotel , a bar and stuck a couple of classrooms on the end . |
| 5 | By the time I was through San Pedro de Lloc and had reached the turn-off to Cajamarca at San José my mind had built the man up into some sort of a monster . |
| 6 | It 's built the back from the main road now Ray . |
| 7 | A construction company controlled by Hauser had built the Institute complex . |
| 8 | Ongoing improvement The MIT and everyone on the plant are well aware they have built the foundation for future improvement . |
| 9 | He had built the dub-house they were sitting in . |
| 10 | Because he made that statement when discussing the concentric spheres with which Aristotle had built the cosmos , he was evidently aware that authoritative world-pictures were not inviolable . |
| 11 | Years later , in a moment of youthful self-disclosure , his grandson commented through one of his fictional characters , ‘ It did n't matter to him how he faced the congregation : his grandfather had built the synagogue . ’ |
| 12 | It was he who had built the synagogue . |
| 13 | Wanted to do an article on how I 'd built the company from nothing . |
| 14 | It was run by a couple of brothers who had started with one large pub in North London and had built the company , by dint of aggressive take-over tactics and shrewd property dealing , to a sizeable enterprise with a turnover of nearly forty million pounds . |
| 15 | You take no account of the way I have built the school up . ’ |
| 16 | In later irrigation schemes water belonged to the capitalists who had built the system and was auctioned to the cultivators : hence the conflict , inconceivable in the older systems , between water-owners and cultivators that was typical of the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | and we balance it out that we had to built the caravan , the deadline we had to tow it across there in back end of March . |
| 18 | Half a dozen companies have built the design since production began in 1940 ; earlier examples were rag-winged , later ones metal . |
| 19 | They have built the club house obstructing the highway without getting the path diverted , if they have to pull it down then they should be made to pull it down . |
| 20 | The Mayors of York would often stay and hunt here , but the glory was short-lived , for William died eight years after he had built the house . |
| 21 | The house had been built on the Heath by an enterprising man who was said to have kept a tethered goat there , then to have put a wall round the goat and then to have built the house before anyone noticed he was purloining the land . |
| 22 | He says it 'd be devastating — we built the bungalow just 6 years ago and I 've built the farm up over the years and now it 's all going to go under water . |
| 23 | Edwards , cycling over 6000 miles a year around Norfolk , painstakingly built the membership up to 3000 within two years . |
| 24 | ‘ When you 've built the Store , what will happen ? |
| 25 | The sooner Sizewell C is built the better as far as we 're concerned . |
| 26 | Lamen Khalifa Fhimah , one of the two men named in the indictment , was said to have stored the explosives at Malta 's Luqa airport , where he was LAA station manager , and to have built the bomb with the second defendant , Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi , Libya 's chief of airline security , hiding it in a Toshiba radio . |
| 27 | Wild built the tower for the Manchester , Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway , which had merged with the Grimsby Docks Company and brought the railway here in 1848 . |
| 28 | But surely you 've built the band around you like that , so that you 're the only one who makes the decisions ? |
| 29 | Before the sea-walls were built the place must have been a true sea-marsh , largely flooded whenever there was a particularly high tide , with islands of sandy soil bound by the tussocky marram grass defeating the sea here and there . |
| 30 | At the heart of the series is BB who has built the business empire from humble beginnings , and who is played by Zia Mohyeddin , whose screen appearances include JEWEL IN THE CROWN , MOUNTBATTEN , ASSAM GARDEN etc . |