Example sentences of "build up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He built up a complete instrument and travelled round the Dales on a horse and cart playing it . |
| 2 | In this way Dr. Bach built up a complete medicine chest of thirty-eight flowers to cover all known negative states of mind . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , in the Doubles final Ian McClure was heading for his second Irish title when he built up a 19-6 lead after 13 ends over James Talbot and Michael Nutt of Old Bleach . |
| 4 | Meanwile , Roland had become self-employed in 1978 , and while sub-contracting during the day , he built up a small nucleus of clients in the evenings with Alison 's help . |
| 5 | The South Saxons whose numbers we shall never know with any accuracy , built up a complex Wealden farming system , backed by a communication network that can only have been an extension of the lesser economic roads of the Romano-Britons . |
| 6 | The Geordies were seemingly cruising as they built up a 3-0 half-time lead . |
| 7 | The industry built up a new audience not by giving a social elite privileges but rather by suggesting that anyone who had paid their admission price would be given value for money and in particular would be given films that had been made with care and attention . |
| 8 | Indeed , " the main theme " of the book is the argument that the triangular pattern of cooperation between government and the two sides of industry built up a new form of harmony which lasted until the mid-sixties and led to the trade unions and employers ' associations being elevated to a new sort of status so that they became " governing institutions " sharing some of the political power and attributes of the state itself . |
| 9 | Going into manufacturing for himself , therefore , was something that came fairly easy to him and for most of the 1950s he built up a substantial furniture business . |
| 10 | Mr Afman built up a profitable portfolio of loans , mostly to small , independent film studios and heavily secured . |
| 11 | Prost built up a solid lead of 28 seconds before he pitted and was then able to run his own race to the chequered flag with most excitement focused on the battle for second between Senna and the surging Schumacher . |
| 12 | Tom Cox and Lee Grant also scored as Colts built up a 6–0 lead . |
| 13 | In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings . |
| 14 | Carleton built up a sizeable estate in the eastern and midland counties , partly by inheritance , partly through the second of his three marriages , to Elizabeth Mohun , a Northamptonshire widow who brought him the manor of Overstone , where he mostly resided . |
| 15 | More fundamentally , the humiliation of the defeat by Japan in 1905 , exacerbated from 1908 by a series of diplomatic reversals in the Balkans , built up a widespread sense of frustration over foreign affairs . |
| 16 | Born in Hereford in 1855 , he became known throughout his native county as he built up a detailed knowledge of the countryside of Herefordshire and the Welsh border . |
| 17 | He built up a considerable reputation in chart-making , his advice being sought in 1680 and again in 1685 by Samuel Pepys [ q.v. ] , secretary to the Admiralty . |
| 18 | Having bought West Dean with their profits from the law , the Lewkenors built up a considerable wealth from the corn trade around Chichester and then took over as M.P.s for the city . |
| 19 | Thus they built up a considerable number of contact points across the action areas , and ( in Ipswich ) even started drawing up a register of people prepared to be considered as support workers . |
| 20 | Gradually we built up a common world , partly based on the great of the past , like Jane Austen , partly on Ivy . |
| 21 | And he built up a whole business just by picking famous names and saying , look I think your design is really outdated and it 's not doing your image any good . |
| 22 | Between them they built up a dense network of services , institutions and training and campaign centres with inevitable duplications and therefore the constant need for co-ordination . |
| 23 | He built up a large practice , relying especially on ‘ native ’ clients , and earned enough money to enable him to live in a very opulent way , even if he did not save any considerable fortune . |
| 24 | Through the favour of the king and of the Earl of Gloucester he built up a large estate in Kent and elsewhere : a royal grant of 1315 enumerates lands in forty-six places spread through eight counties . |
| 25 | He also introduced a bleachfield to supplement the local cloth trade , and built up a local mining and coal-selling business . |
| 26 | How far Gloucester built up a local following is unclear . |
| 27 | How far Gloucester built up a local following is unclear . |
| 28 | ‘ Eric built up a wonderful relationship with the fans and we 'll never forget him telling us that he loved us when the team were parading the League trophy . ’ |
| 29 | His mills had a reputation for supplying everything from newsprint ( for The Times in the 1850s and 1860s ) to security paper , in which he built up a huge export business to Europe , the British empire , and South America for stamps and banknotes ( his customers included almost all the best-known banks ) . |
| 30 | She was celebrated in the media , was featured in a 1940s radio programme and built up an impressive list of clients Sacheverell Sitwell , the Marchioness of Bristol and the Countess of Rosebery plus a clutch of other aristocrats placed regular orders , and a certain Mrs Demarest of the Manor House , Harrold , Bedfordshire used to send twelve small cheeses in lieu of Christmas cards to a selection of her titled friends . |