Example sentences of "build up [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the plains , savannahs , rivers and hills , all the way from Samburu down to the Masai Steppe , proved fruitful and the Masai built up their strength through the acquisition of women and cattle so successfully that they chased out the other tribes who were obliged to cling to the mountains or secrete themselves in the forests , land useless for cattle . |
| 2 | Vale built up his reputation as a ‘ low comedian ’ in the provinces , playing mostly in farces and adaptations , among them the musical comedy , The Boarding House , or Five Hours at Brighton , by Samuel Beazley [ q.v. ] , in which he played the comic militiaman Simon Spatterdash , a propounder of curious comparisons , a role with which he became completely identified off-stage , so that his fame spread far and wide . |
| 3 | Nkrumah also made an African tour , in which he built up his relationship with president Nasser , and went on to visit Nehru in India . |
| 4 | He refused to sit in a wheelchair , crippled by his disability and others ' prejudice and he taught himself to walk again , built up his stamina by playing football on crutches and progressed to the walking sticks he uses today . |
| 5 | He built up his stamina by playing football on crutches and progressed to using walking sticks . |
| 6 | Robert Schuller , of the Crystal Cathedral near Los Angeles , built up his congregation on the motto , ‘ Find a need and feel it , find a hurt and heal it ’ . |
| 7 | Sir George came back and built up his fire with new logs , hissing and singing . |
| 8 | Supplying the retail trade with special orders and quality goods , Storr built up his business over the next eleven years into one of the most important of its kind in London . |
| 9 | Perón ( who built up his power from the Ministry of Labour after 1943 , was elected president of Argentina in 1946 and governed until 1955 ) created his movement precisely on the basis of an alliance between nationalist military officers , industrialists and the non-Marxist ( largely unrepresented ) sections of the working classes . |
| 10 | The aim of the programme is to develop the skills of parents of babies and young children and build up their self-esteem by : |
| 11 | In fact , there have been many discussions caused by Johnny — and his girlfriend who seems to do very little other than build up her tan on a beach and send him the odd letter in a bottle . |
| 12 | I will have to be patient and then build up my knee for next season . |
| 13 | Divers build up your experience before diving offshore , get fit , keep fit . |
| 14 | You can take these courses either as an undergraduate and build up your degree over a few years or pursue a particular interest by taking these courses on a ‘ one-off ’ basis as an associate student . |
| 15 | So , start with a stem and gradually build up your design from that . |
| 16 | Build up your time in the sun gradually — start with half an hour or so . |
| 17 | Our idea was to arrive on a Friday night , eat far too much at one of the local pubs , and build up our strength for a full day 's riding on Saturday . |
| 18 | Una , his 10-year-old which collected breed honours at the 1991 Royal Welsh Show , is the daughter of a cow which he had imported from France during the build up his herd of 45 breeding cows at Drysgolgoch , Llanfyrnach . |
| 19 | Chairman John Craig said the group had performed particularly well in the US , had built up its market in continental Europe and had seen further growth in the Far East . |
| 20 | Since 1980 , EDS has built up its business in Spain from nothing to $65m , Ribas says . |
| 21 | These built up their strength through youth organizations , clubs and activity centres in the refugee camps and towns . |
| 22 | The O'Kelly family have built up their flock over the years , largely by breeding from their own stock . |
| 23 | The completeness of the Woodville collapse casts doubt on any suggestion that Edward IV had deliberately built up their power as a bulwark for his son — something which would have been tantamount to a conscious factionalization of politics . |
| 24 | The completeness of the Woodville collapse casts doubt on any suggestion that Edward IV had deliberately built up their power as a bulwark for his son — something which would have been tantamount to a conscious factionalization of politics . |
| 25 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 26 | I 've built up my career in an area where women are not generally accepted , and just being seen as your girlfriend is going to lose me a lot of respect ! ’ |
| 27 | Midani , who also owned two French chateaux , a Cannes hilltop villa and a townhouse in Paris , had built up his collection during the last ten years of his life . |
| 28 | Craig , who joked he had built up his body with steroids , said : ‘ I may be big but I am losing my hair . ’ |
| 29 | Well obviously he 's built up his clientele over the years |
| 30 | The ducal retinue as it then stood was the creation of the previous fourteen years , during which Gloucester , with royal backing , had built up his power from negligible beginnings to become the acknowledged lord of the north . |