Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [to-vb] up " in BNC.
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| 31 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 32 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
| 33 | But I was so proud of my beautiful daughter , and I wanted to make up to you for the years we lost before I met your mama again ; I wanted you to have the best of everything , and I thought that that was what I was giving you . |
| 34 | I read in an old Practical Fishkeeping an article on setting up a South American general community , this set me thinking and I decided to set up a South American Catfish community with a view to keeping some of the more readily-available , but hard to breed catfish and to provide them with the optimum conditions and numbers to hopefully have some breeding success . |
| 35 | ‘ When your Uncle Jim died , ’ Louise continued , ‘ and I decided to retire up here , it seemed the most natural thing in the world that cousins should want to be close in their widowhood . |
| 36 | Hardly any of them replied and Chris , Nick and I decided to follow up the letters with phone calls . |
| 37 | If we get first division people I 'll do it a different way to him if I had to end up with second division people and the responsibilities they take on board will very much reflect that and the same surely should happen to the field sales force erm their abilities are reflected in in what sort of activities we give them and by looking at the people we have we then put together a team to most accurately attack whatever we want to do . |
| 38 | Even without your help I 'd find my family , ’ she said in a low tone , ‘ and it would n't matter if I had to look up every Corosini in the phone book and knock on a hundred doors . ’ |
| 39 | It was that if I wanted to set up in the business of manufacturing coffins , he would have no objections . |
| 40 | Tell you what erm when we get into you can just drop me down to the greengrocer near the church because I 'm out of erm spring onions and if I wanted to add up to that bit of salad that we 've got |
| 41 | It happened like this : last Saturday , after the farewell party at Nanking University , I came back to the hotel , and packed my things ready to leave for Shanghai , then about 10.30 I started to feel sick , and it got worse and worse and went on and on until I had to wake up Comrade Wu at about 3.30 and ask her to get a doctor . |
| 42 | I had such a backache this morning cos I had to get up early . |
| 43 | But I had to pop up there and move back all the bits and bobs and the debris and everything . |
| 44 | And it was very dark , but I had to go up every night , and I did n't like going up in the dark . ’ |
| 45 | I usually get one , but I had to go up to Hertford this afternoon . |
| 46 | I used to drink really quite strong before , but I decided to give up erm , like , take less sugar , so if you take less sugar , I think I only took two sugars anyway , 'cos my tea was so strong , 'cos 'cos the stronger it is , you need more sugar to sweeten it . |
| 47 | ‘ At any moment , the audience could have thrown chairs at me , but I wanted to bring up one of our greatest fears and make people really laugh about it . ’ |
| 48 | In the end I thought it was a good job that I 'd cut her dead because I began to pick up the gossip about her and found out that she 'd left home when she did because she was pregnant and had had a baby . |
| 49 | The second one was much more difficult because I had to come up with a script every couple of weeks , and there was so much crammed into each one . |
| 50 | I used to have a load of homework to take home with me because I had to catch up but I did n't used to mind that . |
| 51 | Clarkson got his refund ‘ because I refused to give up ’ , not because Coventry believed his story . |
| 52 | Plus , while I had to get up at eight for Whiteleys . |
| 53 | The hospital had a flower shop inside its main entrance and I subbed Fenella a tenner to get a decent bunch of flowers ( I knew I should have told them about their pot plant ) while I tried to chat up the nurse on reception . |
| 54 | Unfortunately , Mrs Tuckett spotted me and I saw recognition click into place in her mind before I had to stand up and do my bit . |
| 55 | And life was even tougher when I had to give up my job to care for Gran — ’ |
| 56 | All the kids found it highly amusing when I had to climb up and fetch her . |
| 57 | I was thinking about life , the universe and how much I liked Kim Carnes 's voice ( a voice that makes you regret moving to filter cigarettes ) on the tape-deck when I began to conjure up a mental picture of Billy Tuckett . |
| 58 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 59 | Also , when I went to stand up I was so whoozy that I just could n't keep my balance , so I slumped back down again . |
| 60 | and whe when I went to get up I was fine . |