Example sentences of "[was/were] build up a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | How must it be to tend your bit of land and sow crops and vegetables and perhaps rear animals , knowing you were building up a comfortable home and an inheritance for your children and then see your children taken and forced into slavery by the Robemaker ? |
2 | In the east his men were in position , awaiting only his order to attack the Plantations , while to the west he was building up a new shape seeking new allies among the elite of City North America . |
3 | He said the princess was building up a separate Kensington Palace court and international platform for herself , predicting : ‘ We will see the phoenix princess arising from the ashes of this whole crumbling mess of the monarchy . |
4 | Martha was building up a vast resource that was enabling her to ask and to tell , to hear and to enjoy . |
5 | ‘ We believed the rumour on Tuesday that British Aerospace was building up a big shareholding but we are not so sure now , ’ a spokesman said . |
6 | Adenauer 's other achievement was to build up a personal relationship with Charles de Gaulle which made possible a Franco-German rapprochement of real depth and made the European Economic Community a reality . |
7 | My dream was to build up a prosperous small-animal practice and later on take on an assistant . ’ |