Example sentences of "i had [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I had made up my mind . |
| 2 | In this particular Mess I had hardly sat down before I felt completely at home , and before I had finished the meal , I had made up my mind that if this particular unit would have me , this was where I would stay . |
| 3 | After a long look I had made up my mind to continue 18 . |
| 4 | But I had made up my mind that I must not get emotional , so I hid all my feelings . |
| 5 | I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged . |
| 6 | ‘ I had made up my mind to put this proposition to you today , ’ he said , ‘ but I see now that this was not the right moment to approach you , ma petite . |
| 7 | and they had all these great pads you know and I had all these maternity pads because I needed them you know I had to pad up and I had to and I felt so embarrassed |
| 8 | Then I had to save up and buy myself a black dress for the afternoons when the housemaid was out , you see . |
| 9 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 10 | After that , I was put on a weekly wage of five shillings — a veritable fortune — four of which I kept locked in a tin box under Granpa 's bed until I had saved up my first guinea : a man what 's got a guinea got security , Mr Salmon once told me as he stood outside his shop , thumbs in his waistcoat pockets , displaying a shiny gold watch and chain . |
| 11 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |
| 12 | But I had to pop up there and move back all the bits and bobs and the debris and everything . |
| 13 | However , I said I would try so I put on my best uniform , nicely pressed , and as I paraded in front of him I said I had turned up the hem of my skirt and did he think it was too short ? |
| 14 | I liked her from the moment I met her , and I well recall the occasion — I had turned up at their place and she appeared in the yard from the shed carrying buckets of milk . |
| 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 | I wish I had summoned up the nerve to smile back . |
| 17 | Unfortunately the rapport I had built up with the director was wasted , as the commercial he was working on went wrong and had to be done again , so I met my new director over a pie and a pint in my local before shooting started . |
| 18 | And I 'm a very keen golfer and I had built up a reputation erm by playing in open tour open tournaments and meeting professionals and |
| 19 | For the next few minutes I had to put up with Sid 's reminiscences about how much worse it had been during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But the nurse could n't move it and I had to put up with it . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Some of you thought that you had problems with the R5 commentators … you were lucky , I had to put up with norman hunter on BBC radio Leeds . |
| 24 | So I had to put up with the , I had a really shitty cycle and then , my run was , you know okay |
| 25 | I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there . |
| 26 | My sister still lives in Berkhamsted , where she and I had grown up and where she and John had subsequently made their home . |
| 27 | I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’ |
| 28 | In his autobiography A Little Learning ( 1964 ) Waugh was to observe that at the age of sixteen he noticed that his publisher father , ‘ whom I had grown up to accept with complete simplicity ’ , was in fact a highly gifted actor in everything he did . |
| 29 | I had grown up believing that my father had been a great patriot who had died for Ireland , but she told me that Dermot was n't my father , and that my father was someone who hated the Irish and the idea of Irish independence . " |
| 30 | I had grown up with class but it was a shifting , unstable , changing force and you fancied across it regardless , for the world was open . |