Sentence examples for built up a sort of from inspiring English sources

Yesterday she'd called Adam, whom she hadn't seen since boarding school 25 years ago (& couldn't even remember from school), but who'd sent her postcards from which she'd built up a sort of elegant, stuffy image of him She asked him to come over when he called in the morning, before he returned to the chateau.

Over the centuries during which they've held sway these administrators of ennui have built up a sort of pantheon of piffle, comprised of talented mediocrities' productions.

One needs to build up a sort of resistance to all that if one can".

The aim was to get both a geographical and a demographic spread, to build up a sort of patchwork of the UK to mark Monday's 60th anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne (pause here for the playing of the national anthem).

Despite the controversy, Bennet had, by the end of his first school year, built up a fan base of sorts.

"By that time, we had just sort of built up a friendship by working together," Mr. Singh said.

I've sort of built up an arsenal of things that I can manipulate sound with.

And I thought it was cool to lead with that, cause we've released four albums now, and we've built up a good sort of following that has kind of stuck with us through the years.

Over time, the police built up a store of information that they used to solve all sorts of crimes.

Having (often painstakingly) built up an understanding of the complexities, the identification of meaningful interventions will invariably necessitate a step back towards simplification – de-complexifying the complexities to sort out critical factors and critical interactions between them.

The good news is that Dear Old Dad has probably built up an immunity to your mother's barbs — sort of like a half-century of nonstop polio vaccinations.