Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you had to look for someone who had grown up with the idea that you could kill . |
| 2 | It 's very agreeable to be able to reach down and offer someone a helping hand — particularly someone he has looked up to for so long . |
| 3 | For instance , he has a new ball , which I 've warmed up in my pockets , every third hole , and I know all his likes and dislikes . |
| 4 | After this , I still found the problems of pragmatics a challenge , requiring the revision of the whole approach to language ( and particularly meaning ) which I had taken up to that time . |
| 5 | This was more a psychological war of attrition than a physical threat , but it was on just such an occasion that we used what might be called our only " weapons " — a couple of pairs of plastic , luminous , blood-shot eyes which I had picked up in an American novelty store over Halloween . |
| 6 | The edition of the Selected Essays , which I had picked up in Cairo during the war after my copy had been pinched by someone in the Foreign Service ( whose identity is known to me ) , had a pleasant silk binding , but the paper was of the colour and of the dryness of a tobacco plant . |
| 7 | I recently bought a 4ft aquarium , which I have set up as a community tank . |
| 8 | I have what I believe to be a very important piece of information for marine fish keepers which I have picked up from the marine scene in the USA . |
| 9 | ‘ There is one thing which nobody has picked up on yet , ’ confides Alex late in the evening . |
| 10 | So although we think that our method is best , we fully realize that you 've got styles , things th which you 've built up over many years . |
| 11 | ‘ Instead of which you 've ended up with a half-grown female in a hat like a tea-cosy . |
| 12 | Have there been any developments on the guitar synth front which you 've taken up for this album ? |
| 13 | Mrs Baines , 54 , who represented the Darlington Gala Club , won the cup and £100 after she tossed her pancake 62 times in the competition in which she had dressed up as Minnie Mouse . |
| 14 | He flipped open the book whose pages were filled with her beautiful , careful script , which he had seen many times on the shopping lists which she had made up under Matey 's instructions . |
| 15 | Sara carefully separated her gloves which she had rolled up into a ball . |
| 16 | She led the way into the communal hall which she personally had taken upon herself to brighten up with a vase of dried flowers and a couple of good , but ancient , rugs which she had picked up for a song at an auction sale . |
| 17 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 18 | Like someone drowning , Sarah saw her past life in detail ; the filthy room in which she 'd grown up with no privacy and no sanitation , the painful joints on Ma 's fingers from too much sewing , Paddy 's brawls , and the incessant noise and smell of Turnmill Street . |
| 19 | Her left hand was curled down under the hem of her skirt , which she 'd pulled up on that side . |
| 20 | The partnership which we 've built up over many years with you means that I 'm confident that British tax payers and recipients in er dep developing countries are getting the best possible value for money when government supports S C F initiatives and what is true for S C F is true for the many other M G , N G Os with whom we work . |
| 21 | It also involved us in playing ‘ When the Saints ’ ( which we 'd resisted up to then ) for the two policemen who caught us parked on a double yellow line . |
| 22 | ‘ These were very serious situations which we wanted cleared up by the NRA but they refused to do anything about it . ’ |
| 23 | The first author shows quite clearly that the idea of inference or mental perception is connected to an impression of " afterness " or subsequence , as are all the other uses with to which we have seen up to this point . |
| 24 | ‘ Let us pray that Our Church , which We have built up through Thy Faith and trust , will … hold together … and that … although there are Beings that … ’ |
| 25 | This is not the keeping of the letter by escaping through the loopholes which we have opened up through clever casuistry . |
| 26 | The blocks which we have discussed up to this point have all been coupled with withdrawal actions . |
| 27 | The British people are fighting back against the shoddy treatment with which we have put up for so long . |
| 28 | The formal structure is the structure of the organisation charts which we have drawn up in this chapter . |
| 29 | Servants came , and wrapped them in soft new sheets together , and carried them to the bed which they had set up in the white room . |
| 30 | Older people may have the scope for choice , but how they use it depends on the resources which they have built up over their lives . |