Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our prices did not go up at the same rate . |
| 2 | We did not go up in the same lift , but were taken to another one , apparently for the use of directors only . |
| 3 | I 'm afraid we did not measure up to the standards set by the well-hung Spanish men who drifted around with flies bulging to the point of bursting their buttons . |
| 4 | They were pale Reds who did not wake up until the second half . |
| 5 | The diathermy loop was used when the neosquamocolumnar junction could be visualised entirely and did not extend up into the canal more than 5 mm from the anatomical os externum . |
| 6 | Although the apex of the pitched roof of this wing was 6.5m ( 21ft ) above floor level , unlike the arrangement that applies at Shawell school , the internal space did not extend up to the roof ridge-board . |
| 7 | In any case , he added , people did not show up for the political meetings , only arriving in time for the drinking afterwards . |
| 8 | Although these weaknesses did not show up in the balance of payments until the 1960s this does not mean that the position in the 1950s was anywhere near ‘ entirely satisfactory ’ since the process was then in the making [ cf. |
| 9 | For all its sincerity , the play did not live up to the promise of its finely drawn characters and the Manchester Guardian called it ‘ a mildly glum artistic failure ’ . |
| 10 | I told Northcliffe that if his people would make enquiries at our Central Office , he would find that our nightly regiment of speakers was at least as well worth reporting as the Radical contingent , but that I realized that from the Press point of view , no doubt , our speakers did not play up to the reporters by handing them their speeches in advance , and by other tricks of the kind to which the Radical orators have recourse . |
| 11 | In 1964 the traffic similarly did not pose quite such a problem as in 1988 , the car parking round the district proving quite adequate , especially as the expected crowds did not turn up on the day . |
| 12 | Angry with Nutty for her pigheadedness and superior airs , Nails did not turn up for the next swimming lesson . |
| 13 | He did not turn up to the funeral when his friend died , and for me this was sadder than the loss of the vicar who had found peace and hope before he died . |
| 14 | His behaviour at the visit seems to suggest that he was a disturbing presence , since he did not turn up in the Great Hall as expected , but disappeared into a derelict and disused part of the house from whence he had to be fetched . |
| 15 | He did not look up towards the guard in the watch-tower . |
| 16 | Her sister did not look up from the list of figures . |
| 17 | Wycliffe did not look up from the statements and for some time Sara gave no sign that she had heard ; then she said : ‘ I 've been very stupid . |
| 18 | She learnt that these plates did not come up to the manufacturer 's high standards and would go back into the melting pot . |
| 19 | The first 15 overs yielded only 30 and the 100 did not come up until the 35th over . |
| 20 | So I did n't grow up with the idea that I had a poet in the family , by marriage of course . |
| 21 | I would have tried to ask Dudley Wood , secretary to the RFU , but he did n't show up at the new kit 's launch … |
| 22 | I did n't feel up to the snubs your radical feminist friends would have handed out . ’ |
| 23 | He did n't feel up to the mildest of rebuffs from her ; he seemed to have gone back to a relationship like an adolescent infatuation , reading rejection in the most innocent of her actions . |
| 24 | The pencil lines on the back of the Lucky Strike packet that were supposed to represent the commercial heart of Glasgow , somehow did n't match up with the darkened canyon they were driving along . |
| 25 | The end result did n't match up to the pre-race hype . |
| 26 | Mm she did n't end up with the word |
| 27 | For light relief we had Valerie , and why she did n't end up in the same boat I 'll never know . |
| 28 | Even the compensation of going to the Saturday matinee on my own to see Buck Jones or Hoot Gibson and then again at night with Uncle Geordie and his wife to another picture house for the big film of the week — Clara Bow or Norma Talmadge or some star like that — did n't make up for the way Skipper kept eyeing me and slavering . |
| 29 | No I 'm stopping in with our kid , you know , and you could n't impose on , on so er if there was fisticuffs , fights , falling out , I 'll fetch our kid , I 'll fetch our wench , I mean there we you used to , honestly and truthfully , you , you used to feel it , you know erm because when there was any trouble , problems or like that there was always somebody to share it well it had the advantages in some ways , perhaps you was er had a little bit more luxuries than the f bigger family , but i in my mind that did n't make up for the companionship of brothers and sisters , no b b b b that , that 's w how I put it anyway . |
| 30 | As a presage , she did n't go up to the top alone . |