Example sentences of "[vb past] up the courage " 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 | As it there could be other victims out there who never got up the courage to come forward |
| 3 | He was clearly so fearful of the answer to his father 's unasked question that he scarcely dared pose it himself , but then summoned up the courage . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Feeling small and insignificant , Chesarynth summoned up the courage to move . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I plucked up the courage to talk to her , and felt this urgent need to tell her that she would eventually kill herself . |
| 9 | By 1984 he plucked up the courage ( or obtained the permission ) to do the two things he really wanted : make wine from Pinot Gris ( originally a Burgundian grape ) as a Burgundian would , fermenting and maturing it in ( partly new ) French oak barriques ; and stop filtering his dry white wines . |
| 10 | Then I plucked up the courage to start moving around on my own and began walking down a path when the gentleman in grey asked people to stand aside , and I stepped well back . |
| 11 | Until I plucked up the courage to go out by myself . |
| 12 | After a while , too , some of the more literary residents of Princeton plucked up the courage to speak to him . |
| 13 | It was a moment or two before Harry plucked up the courage to say , ‘ I do hope you wo n't do that , Madeleine . |
| 14 | When I plucked up the courage to ask my mother about it she just burst into tears and I could not bring myself to question her again . |
| 15 | In Parma , as in all other towns and cities in Italy , there were a number of case di tolleranza , brothels recognized by the authorities , in which the girls were subject to regular medical examinations , and three of the boys in our class plucked up the courage to visit one of these on the way home from school one evening . |
| 16 | Couriers are regularly in and out of Felcourt and one guy from DHL , Pete , plucked up the courage to ask Clare what she was doing that weekend . |
| 17 | Eventually she plucked up the courage , half afraid by now that Luke would come to find her if she was any longer , and stepped out . |
| 18 | FOUR YEARS ago , Wirral plucked up the courage to make itself the centre of the finger-pickin' universe . |