Example sentences of "which [pers pn] have [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Last year was the centenary of the Borough Charters , so on the one hand I was trying to restore the traditions of the thing — erm we tried to reintroduce some of the pomp and ceremonial — and then on the other hand I felt that the mayoralty often did n't seem terribly relevant to people of my generation , and so I tried to involve a lot of young people in various activities and the offshoot of that has been a Youth Advisory Committee which I 've set up , which at the moment is in the process of trying to negotiate with the County Council for some premises to try and increase the sort of Youth Club type evening provision in the town . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 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 | and I have to record ten tapes by Monday which I have to get up at ten thirty in the morning when I 've got no school and take it back up to the school . |
| 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 | But of course this , this has highlighted those two key areas which you 've brought up erm that you would like to address ? |
| 13 | Have there been any developments on the guitar synth front which you 've taken up for this album ? |
| 14 | As soon as the candidate has left the room make notes of your impressions of various abilities , making sure you have covered all the points used for the job/personnel specification , or the list of essential qualities and qualifications which you have drawn up if you are interviewing on a less formal basis . |
| 15 | An exception is made if the country in which you have taken up residency has a double tax agreement with the UK ( see below ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Only that she must have been holding out on him all these years , that she did have memories which she had covered up or , to give her the benefit of the doubt , conveniently forgotten about . |
| 19 | Later the legends and stories with which she had grown up would be added to them — stories of astonishing miracles and heroic adventures , by which she and her father , Solomon Klinitsky-Klein — whose influence on Leonard should not be overlooked — fired his imagination and stimulated his ideas . |
| 20 | For Cecilia , however — a young black girl placed in care at 13 because her mother could n't cope — the fact that she could express anger and upset with her sister , whom she dearly loved , resulted in social workers suggesting a move , ‘ for her own good ’ , to a smaller family-style establishment in the country , miles from the inner city community in which she had grown up . |
| 21 | Within a week she was living with a black foster parent , in the area in which she had grown up , and was able to resume contact with her sister . |
| 22 | Voluntarily then she moved back to the couch from which she had sprung up earlier . |
| 23 | Sara carefully separated her gloves which she had rolled up into a ball . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Sometimes she also uttered a cry which she had picked up somewhere : a kind of ‘ Yah ! ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Her left hand was curled down under the hem of her skirt , which she 'd pulled up on that side . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | You 'll have a later report er , from the social care enterprise agency , which we 've set up to stimulate independent domiciliary care . |