Example sentences of "[vb past] to build up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amanullah had been influenced by what he saw as the modernising reforms introduced in Turkey and Iran : he tried to build up a central army , organised a parliament , and decreed that women should wear western dress : the final straw for the tribes came when he made their leaders listen to a five-day speech . |
| 2 | Phoebe tried to build up a little guilt about his wife but failed to do so . |
| 3 | But once the children reached school age and the family moved to a farmhouse with lots of storage space , Angela began to build up a small trade , learning as she went and advertising in a local newspaper . |
| 4 | As one of his responsibilities he began to build up a permanent collection of works of Art for West Riding Schools . |
| 5 | It was not until thirty years after Anselm that Archbishop Theobald began to build up an administrative staff necessary for the dual organization of ecclesiastical and secular affairs along the lines which became familiar in the later Middle Ages . |
| 6 | His predecessor made two cardinal mistakes , replied Mr Kravchuk : he formed a political alliance with Russia , and he failed to build up an independent army . |
| 7 | It is-thought that , in the early stages , the sea tended to build up a fanshaped mass of shingle ridges represented by the phases AB , AC and AD ( Fig. 8.31 ) . |
| 8 | He intended to build up a small collection of workmen 's clothes , a Brabant smock , a fisherman 's outfit of yellow oilskin and a sou'wester , a grey linen suit of the sort worn by miners , straw hat , wooden clogs , so that he could dress his models in them . |