Example sentences of "had built up a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His father had built up a hotel and property business in Uganda . |
| 2 | She had built up a reputation as ‘ the Iron Lady ’ with some stern condemnations of Soviet Communism and its imperialist designs , before she became Prime Minister . |
| 3 | He had built up a reputation as an idle scamp but now he was transformed into a model of industry , delivering papers in the mornings , digging people 's gardens , helping to drive the beasts at the auction mart . |
| 4 | And I 'm a very keen golfer and I had built up a reputation erm by playing in open tour open tournaments and meeting professionals and |
| 5 | Hoskyns had built up a computer company and been active in the Centre for policy Studies before joining Mrs Thatcher . |
| 6 | Dexter explained that Blufton had left school in Guildford when he was sixteen and had built up a chain of antique shops and pizza parlours . |
| 7 | Eddie Shah , who had built up a group of free weeklies based in Stockport , determined to launch a national daily , Today . |
| 8 | Well , i it was n't too bad at all , they the tailor 's shop actually , it was er a tailor and his wife , who had built up a business over the years , in Stapleford , and it was very well patronized by Stapleford people . |
| 9 | RTD had built up a collection of Tanzanian regional music . |
| 10 | According to Phillip Knightley , Philby had done rather better and was enjoying the comfortable lifestyle of a retired KGB general with his wife Rufa , had built up a library of 12,000 books , saw Western newspapers regularly and was able to maintain contact with his family in the West . |