Example sentences of "had not [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At about 2.15 , someone from the Cardiff side threw the first stone , then the bricks started flying : if they could n't get at each other on land , then they could always fight a missile war and there was plenty of ammo flying around : the workmen who put the fence in had not swept up the chunks of broken concrete around the supports .
2 I treated myself to a night in the Ceilidh Place ; I had not given up the habit of including the dangly earrings and the flowery trousers in the rucksack .
3 She was grateful that Sylvie had not taken up the Princesse 's invitation to join them for the holidays and , a little guiltily , that Leo had n't either .
4 Fairbrother had not picked up the emphasis in that suggestion , and Richard decided to let it go .
5 Irina however had not picked up the seriousness of his last words .
6 And she just knew that , if she had not brought up the subject of Tony , he would have invited her to join him in his walk along the shore .
7 It was also evident that they had not weighed up the consequences .
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