Example sentences of "[pers pn] built [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We built up a projection of Theresa , and Theresa 's cancer became very real . |
| 2 | From the teachers ' comments and our own observations , we built up a picture of some of the processes involved in creating these conditions . |
| 3 | Over the next few years they built up a 650-acre farm , a sizeable chunk of which was bought with 20,000 of Frances ' inheritance . |
| 4 | They built up a friendship with the Scottish band , This Poison ! / ‘ It was really cold at their house . |
| 5 | He was one of the first eminent European scientists to make a career in the USA , and rapidly became a lion : his lectures and books were popular , and he built up a school and museum at Harvard . |
| 6 | Here he built up a trade in seeds , corn , manure , and fertilizer , and started a malt kiln in Driffield and a brewery and kilns in Malton . |
| 7 | He built up a hostel linked to the church for overseas students and asylum seekers . |
| 8 | It appeared that Tyminski had left Poland penniless in 1969 , travelling first to Sweden and then to Canada , where he built up a business empire centred on a computer automation firm . |
| 9 | Eventually he built up a collection of bells which he played in time to the tunes he would play on his harmonium . |
| 10 | Through applying Mach 's training ideas , by putting in unpaid coaching for two or three hours a day , five days a week , and by keeping his doors open , he built up a group of 30 young sprinters in Toronto within a year . |