Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] up the " 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 | ‘ Originally he decided not to take up the option because he thought it would upset me , ’ Miranda said lamely . |
| 11 | And try not to scrunch up the board if you do it |
| 12 | Miss Kyte chose not to take up the challenge . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Only 600 schools did not take up the offer of half-price computers . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He did not take up the point . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Elinor did not pick up the pan and hurl it across the room . |
| 26 | ‘ We did not pick up the fact he had died . |
| 27 | Unlike everybody else , however , the hard man did not look up the neighbourhood exorcist in Thompson 's Local Directory . |
| 28 | Male homosexuals in a large number of cases , says Freud , do not give up the mother and find another woman as sexual object , but they identify with their mother : ‘ he transforms himself into her and now looks about for objects which can replace his ego for him and on which he can bestow such love and care as he has experienced with his mother ’ . |
| 29 | As with redundancy , do not bring up the subject yourself but if it is discussed do not lie . |
| 30 | It also brought up the art quote of the year , from one Ziff Fistrunk ( no , I do not make up the name ) , director of the Southside Chicago Sports Council , who organised the protest : ‘ I have trained players in Little League and semi-pro baseball , and at no time did I train them naked . ’ |