Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 2 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 3 | It was at this point that I gave up any hopes for an aviation career simply because of the increasing high cost of hiring that DH Moth for a few hours every weekend . |
| 4 | She said that she woke up one day and did not feel lost or depressed , did not wonder what she was going to do with herself or reach for the phone to try and summon up some company . |
| 5 | It would be nice to think that she woke up one day and thought , ‘ I 've got to do Michael 's show . ’ |
| 6 | At last she fell asleep , but it seemed to her that she woke up some time in the night . |
| 7 | Devotedly Meredith , she experienced such a choking sensation of jealousy — she thought it must be like parachuting from an aeroplane , in that she could n't breath and the world dropped away — that she scrumpled up both scraps of paper and flung them into the metal basket beneath the counter . |
| 8 | We do n't you know we 've got clubs still waiting that we signed up last year . |
| 9 | Can I give you a bit of something that we picked up last week that may be of some benefit to you ? |
| 10 | I do not think it can be claimed that they opened up new territory ( writings by Dorothy Heathcote and others in the 1970s were concerned with a level of sophistication in drama teaching which the team seemed not to be able to articulate ) , but in terms of giving some sense of order to the basic functioning of drama the publication deserves to be seen as an important landmark . |
| 11 | Commenting on his sexual abstinence Erik Erikson writes : ‘ It is of importance here that he gave up sexual intimacy for a wider communal intimacy and not just because sexuality seemed immoral in any Calvinistic sense . |