Example sentences of "which he [vb past] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mechanical response with which he had grown up , natural as breathing . |
| 2 | He had sold Chapeltoun House in Ayrshire , which he had built up over 10 years , and was looking to invest in another business . |
| 3 | He 'd use it to identify and locate all the landmarks which he had stared up at during his exhausting explorations , now seen from a very different perspective ; he knew the names of all the streets where the distant , anonymous towers of the banks and finance companies were sited , having worn himself out many times by walking along them , fascinated by the scenes glimpsed behind their mirrored , darkened or tinted glass windows and walls . |
| 4 | Springfield himself was standing beside the open door of his car , which he had drawn up on the verge opposite the gates , angled so its headlights were bathing them in a pool of bright luminescence . |
| 5 | By the time that she had balanced the tray on a small table , the silver teapot carefully placed where Matey could preside over it , Mrs Darrell had embarked on an attack on Dr Neil and the profession which he had taken up . |
| 6 | The commanding officer , General David Thorne said that was his impression too , as the wildlife — which he had swotted up on before taking over — tended , like the inhabitants , to keep to the fringes A helicopter pilot said he and his colleagues were particularly careful about the albatross , not because of any memories of the ancient mariner but because an encounter with these in flight could be fatal for bird and helicopter . |
| 7 | His thoughts wandered to the Standard which he had folded up and stuffed into the top drawer of his desk when Mrs Strawson was announced . |
| 8 | Philip Swallow finds the VC 's memorandum , its envelope still unopened , at the bottom of his In-tray , trapped between the pages of a brochure for Bargain Winter Breaks in Belgium which he had picked up from a local travel agency some weeks ago . |
| 9 | Lincoln , in turn , came across the mystery in de Sede 's book Le Tresor Maudit ( The Cursed Treasure ) , which he had picked up for some light holiday reading . |
| 10 | Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading . |
| 11 | Dotted around the 50-mile long island are Stallone 's five hideaways which he began buying up 10 years ago . |
| 12 | He spent hours with the local clergyman who had his own private store of medicines such as Epsom salts , gentian , laudanum , and quantities of port which he believed built up the strength , and he had seen for himself how garlic had done wonders for children with whooping cough . |
| 13 | The upright against which he rested stretched up like a great squared pillar into the ceiling high overhead , white-painted , the simplicity of its design emphasised by the seven pictograms carved into the wood and picked out in gold leaf-the characters forming couplets with those on the matching upright . |