Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [to-vb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because my experience was not of being poor , the discomforts of the poverty that I had to put up with in the rue Victorie did not suggest themselves as unending . |
| 2 | ‘ As the full-time mother of pre-school twins , I just thought that I had to put up with Sam 's barely concealed fling with a neighbour , ’ says Tina . |
| 3 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |
| 4 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 5 | I told myself that I had to face up to things ; John might have forgotten me , he might have been changed beyond recognition by his experiences ; he would not want me to mope . |
| 6 | There is so much energy and life in this recording , so much infectious enthusiasm , that I had to get up and do something . |
| 7 | The , the present , the present day er in Edinburgh , the present day buildings that I helped to build up are now in Pilton and in fact er out in Saint I built , that was a er built a fact I did all the rough . |
| 8 | Having set the scene , it was about 2 years ago whilst I was being taken for a walk through the village by our springer dog , that I happened to meet up with the Church Warden who , after passing the time of day suddenly said ‘ Ah Bob , you do a bit of woodwork , do n't you ? |
| 9 | Erm the other one , that I wanted to bring up in this , the reason I suppose , the second one to remember , is the idea of satire . |
| 10 | And there 's also something else that I forgot to bring up and that is that they 're trying to find new ways of removing the gases , and they reckoned that in 2 years there 's going to be an electrical method , an electrical filter , and the lab is 99% efficient . |
| 11 | I had a terrible time last Friday — your paper sent me proofs to correct the same day so I had to struggle up with them . |
| 12 | I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit . |
| 13 | By the time I got into position , my lungs were bursting and I had to go up for air again . |
| 14 | But the nurse could n't move it and I had to put up with it . |
| 15 | He turned left down an alley without indicating and I had to carve up a Volvo with Swedish number plates in order to follow him . |
| 16 | Specially if there was cars on the hill and I had to pull up behind them . |
| 17 | She was getting tired of the equipment — the leash and ring and creance — slowing her down , and I had to pluck up the courage to let her fly free for the first time . |
| 18 | Certainly , if I were a script writer , and I had to think up the most inappropriate name for a girl dressed as a man , the above tendencies would lead me to choose a monosyllabic form , using a closed syllable , ending in a consonant as far away from a continuant as I can find — a plosive — and with a vowel as far away from /i/ as I can find , such as /a/ or /o/ . |
| 19 | Erm and I had to think up something that I do as a hobby er to teach other people . |
| 20 | P. A. I got called as a witness in a motoring case , and it came up when I was on nights and I had to get up and call in the solicitor . |
| 21 | I was attacked too , and I had to get up next morning and tell my daughter , she did n't have a daddy any more . |
| 22 | I used to try and not say er , you know , to make her feel uncomfortable and that sort of thing , but I did use to draw the line when they used to be eleven and half past eleven saying goodnight and I had to get up at half past , six o'clock , seven o'clock |
| 23 | So I went to bed and I had to get up and get dressed and go and pick him up |
| 24 | He was a tall , heavily built man , and I had to look up to see the bearded face . |
| 25 | Erm I had to go to a table like that which said square roots and I had to look up twenty |
| 26 | and he was playing computer with me and I meant to come up to you . |
| 27 | ( 28/12/92 ) : Stephen , Richard Newcombe and I went to sum up the move to Ron Davies 's barn . |
| 28 | I left Aisha 's prison in the following way : one day a woman from the same village as Aisha and I came to pick up her sewing machine . |
| 29 | By the time 1972 was out I had found a Vets club in join , the VAC as it was called , and I began to pick up something about the scene — where to find the minor races , who to go to for training advice , the way to use blocks and how to seek out physios for repair purposes — and I took up steady training . |
| 30 | And I tried to save up for a car cos my son was in the army . |