Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | However , the speed and excitement of the third level simply ca n't make up for the boredom of the first two , thus banishing this product into the depths of mediocrity . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I just cos when I see children like that and you know there 's nothing you can really do for them , you ca n't make up for the fact that they 've got a rotten home life and that 's top and bottom line that 's what it is ! |
| 5 | Just as long as the heat does n't build up into a storm . ’ |
| 6 | But do n't hang up on the shares because I reckon they could hit Pounds 4 by Christmas . |
| 7 | ‘ There was I , feeling flattered at the attention you were paying me , when all the time you were just testing me out to see that I would n't dry up on the air ! |
| 8 | ‘ If you did n't light up like a firework on festa night whenever I touch you , I could understand . ’ |
| 9 | You could n't show up in a place like Adam 's Creek without a few questions being asked , Jed knew that , so he 'd dreamed up a story . |
| 10 | So you do n't finish up with a battery that as soon as you 've used it for about a minute , that 's it ca n't get any more |
| 11 | I did n't feel up to the snubs your radical feminist friends would have handed out . ’ |
| 12 | You 'd better warn him that I 'll expect to see him some time tomorrow , if he does n't feel up to an interview this evening , that is ! ’ |
| 13 | That 's why it is so important that we do n't give up for an instant . |
| 14 | " They Catholics wo n't give up without a fight , " old Treffry was saying . |
| 15 | But Bonsai World staff say they wo n't give up without a fight . |
| 16 | The rose did n't give up without a struggle . |
| 17 | So I did n't grow up with the idea that I had a poet in the family , by marriage of course . |
| 18 | I do n't keep up with the names any more . ’ |
| 19 | When that happened , we could n't keep up with the mortgage payments so we lost the house . ’ |
| 20 | The house where they were living has been re-possessed because the owner could n't keep up with the mortgage payments . |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't keep up with the demand . ’ |
| 22 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 23 | I did n't look up at the sky . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're pathetic and obsessed and you wo n't face up to the truth that Eddie was never good enough to make the jump into Formula One ! |
| 25 | ‘ The only reason I did n't sign up for the navy was because I could n't swim , ’ Tommy grumbled . |
| 26 | Slowly she discovered tricks of the trade such as weighting her hems so that they did n't blow up in a breeze and she gradually acquired a coterie of designers , including Catherine Walker , David Sassoon and Victor Edelstein , whom she now relies upon . |
| 27 | He was trying to undermine her self-confidence , make her believe she could n't stand up to the exigencies of canal life . |
| 28 | You ca n't stand up near the side . |
| 29 | It would n't fit into the sequence , it would n't match up with the ledger . |
| 30 | And if you 're tiling right round a room , inaccurate levels will mean your rows do n't match up at the start and finish point . |