Example sentences of "[verb] up the courage [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eventually screwed up the courage to write to Richardson , pretending to be a drama student wanting advice . |
| 2 | But why not pluck up the courage to do what you 've always wanted ? |
| 3 | One day I will pluck up the courage to quiz her . |
| 4 | Now , say more about that practically , because I mean if you 're depressed , you may feel too depressed to go to a a professional , you may have great difficulty getting there for whatever reason because you 're ashamed as someone mentioned , you 're embarrassed , you do n't want to admit you ca n't cope , which is a syndrome once you get there how do you pluck up the courage to say well actually what your offering me is n't good enough , I 've heard on on television there is something better and I want it ? |
| 5 | Other people 's perceptions of us are there to be collected if only we can pluck up the courage to ask for them . |
| 6 | I know of only one or two couples who have managed to stay together when one partner has been unfaithful and I wish I could pluck up the courage to ask them how they 've done it . |
| 7 | They had sent a telegram to Louise ( Constance could not pluck up the courage to speak to her ) ; Ludovico had telephoned a friend about somewhere for them to stay and they had eaten what to Constance , used to English food , seemed the most delicious lunch she had ever tasted . |
| 8 | But how did you pluck up the courage to tell the aunt ? ’ |
| 9 | Anyway , the mosque was one of the many subjects he felt it safest to avoid until he had plucked up the courage to go into one . |
| 10 | As their 35ft yacht , the Blue Doublet , bobbed about on the choppy waters , Commander Tim Laurence finally plucked up the courage to pop the question . |
| 11 | The personal tragedy that befalls Gibson 's character in ‘ Forever Young ’ is that he loses his childhood sweetheart in an accident before he has plucked up the courage to propose marriage . |
| 12 | As a pair they really were an excellent entry and looking back , I am somewhat amazed that my aunt ever plucked up the courage to parade around the streets . |
| 13 | I have only just plucked up the courage to write to you after a year and a half of reading ZZAP ! |
| 14 | The only difference between what Daniel had to endure and what my children have endured is that I am still alive and have plucked up the courage to divorce my husband . |
| 15 | As it there could be other victims out there who never got up the courage to come forward |
| 16 | She was screwing up the courage to suggest she cook him a meal over the weekend when he glanced at his watch . |
| 17 | But that would be a kind of failure , having summoned up the courage to go this far , to take this step ; and though he had warned her that it might hurt a little , she trusted him : he was so gentle , so mature . |
| 18 | If you summon up the courage to investigate , you might find not alien creatures but a friendly hedgehog or two , emerging from hibernation and foraging for food among the shrubs in your borders . |
| 19 | When will the right hon. Gentleman summon up the courage to make a decision on the applications ? |
| 20 | I did though on one occasion not long ago , pluck up the courage to attempt the required sort of reply . |
| 21 | ‘ He still made tremendous efforts , but he could never get up the courage to criticise what I was doing , which was what I longed for , ’ says Richard . |
| 22 | There is still a way out of this economic mess , if Mr Gorbachev can summon up the courage to take it . |
| 23 | Trouble was , if she appeared downstairs too soon it would look as if she was cadging a lift , and if she arrived too late they would have gone without her — and then how would she summon up the courage to go at all ? |
| 24 | Arthur 's fling with Mrs Hewitt , played by Michael Aspel 's wife , Lizzie Power , has turned into a serious affair and the unlikely Lothario is trying to pluck up the courage to leave his wife , Pauline . |
| 25 | This seemed to relate closely to my problems , but I have to admit it took me a while to pluck up the courage to do that deadly and dangerous deed ( that everyone tells you never to do ) to my machine ! |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Feeling small and insignificant , Chesarynth summoned up the courage to move . |
| 28 | Parliament , which rejected Mr Kuchma 's plea for price increases in response to Russia 's shift to world prices , summoned up the courage to raise wages and pensions instead . |
| 29 | John Balliol , though opposed by nature to any activities whatsoever which might threaten war , summoned up the courage to tell Edward that promises of fealty extracted under threats of violence were not valid . |
| 30 | Case White , as the invasion was codenamed , was aborted by a signal issued at about 7.30 p.m. on August 25 , because Mussolini and Ciano , when it came to it , summoned up the courage to tell Hitler the truth at last . |