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 . |