Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report suggested that the Bulgarian leadership did not give up the idea until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985 . |
| 2 | At the presentation , Sir Humphry did not pass up the chance to impress upon the business world the great value of science to their endeavours : ‘ Science , gentlemen , is of infinitely more importance to a state than may at first sight appear possible ; for no source of wealth and power can be entirely independent of it ; and no class of men are so well able to appreciate its advantages as that to which I am addressing myself . |
| 3 | That arranged between Henry V and Duke Philip of Burgundy , imposed upon the sick king , Charles VI , and then formally registered ( or approved ) by France 's highest judicial body , the Parlement , did not carve up the kingdom , at least not on paper . |
| 4 | I had wanted to spend some time with the Infierno people themselves ; but , caught between two worlds , they had a very understandable fear of their traditional knowledge being ‘ stolen ’ , and did not open up the project to outsiders without good reason . |
| 5 | His scouts had assessed that the enemy numbers would reach around twenty thousand , and were moving fairly fast , a mounted host save for the Islesmen and Highlanders who , trained to proceed long distances at the run , and lightly clad , did not hold up the horse to any extent . |
| 6 | Three quarters of local authorities did not follow up the Department of Environment 's advice and carry out checks to see if the tenant was receiving the right benefits . |
| 7 | Third , when the provincial gentry still did not take up the cause of reform with alacrity the tsar bypassed them by appointing a majority of keen reformers to the Editing Commissions . |
| 8 | He did not take up the point . |
| 9 | Only 600 schools did not take up the offer of half-price computers . |
| 10 | Before yesterday 's hearing Mr McTear , gasping for breath , said his goal was to ensure youngsters did not take up the habit and go through his ordeal . |
| 11 | Elinor did not pick up the pan and hurl it across the room . |
| 12 | ‘ We did not pick up the fact he had died . |
| 13 | Unlike everybody else , however , the hard man did not look up the neighbourhood exorcist in Thompson 's Local Directory . |
| 14 | I phoned Debby to get Steven 's phone number to get him to leave out the microphone and the amplifier and then he brought up the microphone and did n't bring up the amplifier . |
| 15 | But when they did n't pay up the bridegroom 's mother , Cara White , whose firm handled the catering , sued the Smiths , of Cranwell , Lincs . |
| 16 | I waited outside , rubbing my shin and inspecting the damage to my Docs ; luckily the scuff on the right toe did n't show up the way it would have with polished boots . |
| 17 | When it had been screened you 'd got to be in there and the malted barley would come out of a big hole just big enough to get a comb-sack through ; and it used to run into a big heap ; and you 'd got to be inside there a-throwing on it back so it did n't bung up the hole . |
| 18 | Now he did n't actually to begin with , he did n't pick up the concept of counting in tens . |
| 19 | She did n't pick up the name Berowne although he knew that it was safely stowed in her mind . |
| 20 | OD1 proved itself much more like the classic Marshall sound , with enough dirt to make things ballsy , but not so much that backing off the guitar did n't clean up the tone for real blues rhythm playing and crunchy Bryan Adams-type chords . |