Example sentences of "[vb past] built up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think it was an example of the trust that we 'd built up over the weeks and months that we were able to do it . |
| 2 | Unfortunately the rapport I had built up with the director was wasted , as the commercial he was working on went wrong and had to be done again , so I met my new director over a pie and a pint in my local before shooting started . |
| 3 | In those parts of the buildings that were protected against the rains a yellow film , like nicotine staining , had built up on the marble . |
| 4 | At the start of the next session , mindful of the head of steam that had built up on the issue , Ede announced that the Government had decided to recommend the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the possible limitation or modification of the death penalty . |
| 5 | One of the less well-known consequences was that , when the companies who wrote unit-linked business wished to introduce personal pensions , they found that their natural mode of operation led them to return on death the fund which had built up for the policyholder , rather than any specific guaranteed rate of return . |
| 6 | He said the debts had built up following the collapse of his business . |
| 7 | The catalogue of hurts which had built up over the years was considerable . |
| 8 | It was an enormous leap , which he was able to make by virtue of the professional competence and political significance he had built up over the preceding twenty years . |
| 9 | A weighty body of objective opinion — of HMI , teachers , academics and local authorities — had built up during the 1970s to support the common-sense view that a pupil leaving school aged sixteen at the youngest should be prepared for the responsibilities and opportunities associated with the age of majority which he or she would attain no more than two years later . |
| 10 | The first part of an explanation would be the extent of belief in Hitler which had built up in the years before 1940 . |
| 11 | Dressed in the plant 's uniform of white overalls and cap , he was conducting an exercise to release the excess energy that had built up in the honeycomb matrix of graphite blocks which surrounded the uranium nuclear fuel . |
| 12 | The tension and frustration that had built up in the claustrophobic atmosphere of their life in Northumberland had finally spilt over when Louise had taken them both to the West End to buy the birthday dress . |
| 13 | Even before the war with Spain ended in 1609 the Dutch were preparing to attack various parts of the empire the Portuguese had built up in the Indian Ocean in the previous hundred years , stretching as far east as Java and the other Spice Islands near it , and later on they also attacked the Portuguese possessions in Brazil . |
| 14 | On learning of the information , the brokerage house sold a large stock position which it had built up in the client 's shares . |