Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore what is now called corporate this other income is the erm basically head office cost , there 's things like profits on from our captive insurance er dividends which we did n't have it in fact last year we did the year before from Blackpool land , small profits from the sale of some shares at Fair and other odds and ends which I erm really do n't make up a great deal . |
| 2 | Charles , who had been criticized as increasingly authoritarian during her 10 years in office , dismissed opposition complaints by claiming that " we have always realized that elections do n't throw up the best people " . |
| 3 | For them , classic clothes no longer have to be fussy or stuffy — an increasing number of British men want classic style , but wo n't give up the comfortable feel of the designer clothes they got used to in the Eighties . |
| 4 | Do n't keep up a running commentary . |
| 5 | Alice had said : ‘ It 's a pity your husband did n't leave him to drown and save himself , but I suppose that on the spur of the moment he did n't weigh up the relative value of a useful teaching career and pimpled stupidity . ’ |
| 6 | But I could n't set up an ideal control system . |
| 7 | ‘ Frankly , Nicola Schreider needs a shrink if she does n't put up a good fight for him . |
| 8 | I could n't summon up a double bass in the short time that I had this rig , which was a shame since , like Hughes & Kettner 's BassBase , the unit is flexible enough to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of the instrument , the primary reason for the onboard notch filter . |
| 9 | He tried to hit me , kept pummelling me with his podgy fists , but he could n't summon up the necessary enthusiasm . |
| 10 | When you when archaeologists carry out the dig they do n't dig up the whole site . |
| 11 | My father ca n't climb up the narrow ladder from the top floor ; and , even if he could , I know he would n't be able to negotiate the twist you have to make to get from the top of the ladder , round the brickwork of the chimney flues , and into the loft proper . |
| 12 | ‘ They do n't turn up every five minutes . |
| 13 | ‘ Cinderella 's coach did n't turn up the second time around ? ’ |
| 14 | You could n't close up an Irish house without the weather getting into the fabric . |