Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't , after all , promised not to look up the name and home number of the divisional security officer , and one small stain would n't really count and might not even show . |
| 2 | As Peugeot has not pushed up the prices of these new models compared to the old , the PC 553 ERP represents pretty good value for money . |
| 3 | Certainly Ferguson has not given up the ghost of trying to land the Championship . |
| 4 | He has not given up the running battle between them over the question of form , which started out with his victory on accommodation . |
| 5 | The export market has not taken up the slack , so redundancies are coming thick and fast . |
| 6 | Eight years ago , the council gave Burton Property Trust permission to build a multi-storey car park as part of the Cornmill but it has not taken up the option . |
| 7 | Ludens will bring Marcus here , he should show up any moment , I hope he has n't messed up the car ! ’ |
| 8 | GPU has n't given up the courtroom entirely . |
| 9 | He has n't given up the practice but he 's , he 's still a partner and he does a large weekend duty for us all |
| 10 | Our other research has shown that some adults would prefer not to take up a full-time course and so lose the income from a full-time job . |
| 11 | He is dressing it up as a concession , but , without amendment ( a ) , if there is a Conservative Government post election — I do not think that will happen , but we should explore the fantasies in case there is — the Secretary of State could decide not to set up a further education council in Scotland . |
| 12 | ‘ Originally he decided not to take up the option because he thought it would upset me , ’ Miranda said lamely . |
| 13 | And try not to scrunch up the board if you do it |
| 14 | Miss Kyte chose not to take up the challenge . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The things which came out in therapy did not make up a complete , finished jigsaw , as I might have imagined . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Hence the acceptance of professionalism did not set up a free market in football but bound players legally to one club and determined the maximum wage that could be paid to them . |
| 21 | The words used by the testator did not set up a trust , for they represented not testation with respect to his own property ( which would , of course , have been legitimate ) but an attempt to deprive one of his daughters of her right to free testation . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ We do n't want to trouble this family for any longer , but if we did not follow up every ‘ not known at this address ’ , we would have a short poll tax register . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The local newspapers in Ulster printed our press statements , but did not follow up the Black story on their own despite the clear indications of sinister and dramatic happenings . |
| 26 | Only 600 schools did not take up the offer of half-price computers . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When he returned to England from Calcutta , which he did as soon as he was well enough to travel , he did not take up the glorious and interesting life that was waiting for him there , as one would have expected . |
| 29 | He did not take up the point . |
| 30 | 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 . |