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I was dreaming up a good story to tell my brother.

But a coach can't just dream up a game plan.

It's just too close to the best possible solution we could dream up.

Any kind of a message from here you can dream up.

"A man would have to be to dream up that sort of evidence."

"I might not if anyone else was saying it, but you don't dream things up."

But he had dreamed up a lot of these things himself.

Nor with anything else I've been able to dream up.

I certainly didn't dream him up out of left field.

"Maybe we could dream up something for you to know."