Example sentences of "have n't [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Ludens will bring Marcus here , he should show up any moment , I hope he has n't messed up the car ! ’ |
2 | He has n't given up the practice but he 's , he 's still a partner and he does a large weekend duty for us all |
3 | GPU has n't given up the courtroom entirely . |
4 | But , of course , Dad had had all sorts of minor affairs and that had n't broken up the marriage . |
5 | He did n't make it to the course on the next day , was sacked , and always maintained that if he had n't given up the drink for those ten days or so and ‘ dried out ’ he would not have got so drunk , would have been on the course at the appointed time , would not have lost his job , and would have have carried for yet another Open Champion . |
6 | ‘ I 'd put the new tyre on , but I had n't tightened up the wheel . ’ |
7 | However , when they had used HP , they had often got into trouble over it , usually because they had n't kept up the payments . |
8 | She was glad now that she had n't put up the lights . |
9 | I discussed my feelings with the woman in question and I slept with her , but I deeply regretted it later on and was sorry that I had n't weighed up the consequences more thoroughly beforehand . |
10 | I guess that if I had n't taken up the trenchcoat and fedora to walk the alleyways of history as the greatest detective of them all , I might well have become a poet . |
11 | This time she had n't picked up the thread automatically . |
12 | I just wish they had n't boarded up the windows . |
13 | She 's cut taxes , she 's made concessions and somehow the British people simply have n't picked up the ball and run with it . |