Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] build up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I try to build up a rapport with the callers and being able to speak a little French helps , ’ she said . |
| 2 | Whichever point the patient selects , that is the age from which I start to build up a picture of the character . |
| 3 | I prefer to build up an image of character , personality and surroundings before establishing such details as name , date and so on . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've built up a dossier on his drug and arms deals over the past few years . |
| 5 | I have built up a conception in which the agents belonging to a given economic class ( defined at the level of property holding ) may be distributed in various ways into more or less strongly formed social collectivities of various degrees of political pertinence . |
| 6 | I have built up a rock structure to the water height in the middle of the tank . |
| 7 | ‘ Over the years I have built up a collection of around 1,700 . ’ |
| 8 | If you intend to build up a show kennel , a very good quality bitch is your first priority . |
| 9 | You start building up a dossier on all known facts about the International Continental Union Bank , US . |
| 10 | ‘ And now you 've built up an appetite for sampling some of the fish which may have been brought ashore here ? ’ |
| 11 | 1.2 It is tempting at this point to plunge straight into an account of the adjectival system and how it produces such results as those above ; and in fact we should state clearly at this point that readers who prefer to build up the picture piece by piece , assessing the validity of the connexion between data and theory by starting from the evidential end , may pass immediately to Chapter 2 without any disadvantage . |
| 12 | You have to build up the excitement first . |
| 13 | Erm so you need to build up a picture of what you 've got erm but there 's no real reason why we should n't be working on that now it seems to me . |
| 14 | And er over the years we 've built up a reputation I know is is a genuine one say that because I know that you 're going to appreciate this course and I use the term very very particularly you will enjoy it . |
| 15 | Since then , in the last seven years , we 've built up a market of 50,000 tonnes of it at good prices , under the name ‘ Andricite ’ — from anhydride and JCI . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | And I liked er the the polishing you know , the what they call building up a body . |
| 18 | Whenever the Fedpol think they 've built up a case on one world or another , they find platoons of sharp lawyers appearing , kilocreds are spent , evidence vanishes , witnesses have strange accidents … |
| 19 | We know that people do not drift away from their main sources of financial help , social support and continuing treatment , particularly if they have built up a relationship with someone in the service they trust . |
| 20 | What they do find difficult is filling their day once they have actually come off drugs because they have built up a kind of lifestyle that has already been said |
| 21 | They have built up a list of people all over the world who have been sending them football songs and now send Beatles covers as well . |
| 22 | In that time they have built up a force of one hundred and fifty vehicles and three hundred and forty staff . |
| 23 | However , the evaluators are not satisfied that they have built up a picture of library use which permits them to be confident in drawing firm conclusions about the project 's success in these terms . |
| 24 | They copy each other 's institutions ; and , to strengthen their common interests , they have built up a series of common institutions — international unions to govern postal , railway and tele-graphic communication , conferences and conventions to regulate affairs both of property ( such as copyright ) and labour ; international law courts ( at the Hague and elsewhere ) supported by a network of Arbitration and other treaties ; a sort of World-Duma , in the periodical Peace Conferences at the Hague ; and last but not least , the growing international organisation of the Labour and Socialist movements . |
| 25 | Starting very gradually , they have built up an exercise routine for each patient designed to suit their particular needs and they have found that the results have been quite dramatic . |