Example sentences of "have not [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Certainly Ferguson has not given up the ghost of trying to land the Championship . |
| 3 | He has not given up the running battle between them over the question of form , which started out with his victory on accommodation . |
| 4 | The export market has not taken up the slack , so redundancies are coming thick and fast . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ludens will bring Marcus here , he should show up any moment , I hope he has n't messed up the car ! ’ |
| 7 | GPU has n't given up the courtroom entirely . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | At about 2.15 , someone from the Cardiff side threw the first stone , then the bricks started flying : if they could n't get at each other on land , then they could always fight a missile war and there was plenty of ammo flying around : the workmen who put the fence in had not swept up the chunks of broken concrete around the supports . |
| 10 | I treated myself to a night in the Ceilidh Place ; I had not given up the habit of including the dangly earrings and the flowery trousers in the rucksack . |
| 11 | The Titfords , it seemed , had not given up the Miscellaneous Repos business for good : an unmarried Scottish lady in her sixties , Jessie Grieve , was staying with them as a lodger ; what little she may have paid in rent would have been very useful , no doubt , as a means of eking out the family income . |
| 12 | She was grateful that Sylvie had not taken up the Princesse 's invitation to join them for the holidays and , a little guiltily , that Leo had n't either . |
| 13 | Irina however had not picked up the seriousness of his last words . |
| 14 | Fairbrother had not picked up the emphasis in that suggestion , and Richard decided to let it go . |
| 15 | And she just knew that , if she had not brought up the subject of Tony , he would have invited her to join him in his walk along the shore . |
| 16 | It was also evident that they had not weighed up the consequences . |
| 17 | I 've not fixed up the date yet . |
| 18 | But , of course , Dad had had all sorts of minor affairs and that had n't broken up the marriage . |
| 19 | It was like when his Giro cheques from the unemployment people had n't turned up the last time he 'd been out of work ; it was all done to wear him down . |
| 20 | He did n't make it to the course on the next day , was sacked , and always maintained that if he had n't given up the drink for those ten days or so and ‘ dried out ’ he would not have got so drunk , would have been on the course at the appointed time , would not have lost his job , and would have have carried for yet another Open Champion . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd put the new tyre on , but I had n't tightened up the wheel . ’ |
| 22 | However , when they had used HP , they had often got into trouble over it , usually because they had n't kept up the payments . |
| 23 | She was glad now that she had n't put up the lights . |
| 24 | I discussed my feelings with the woman in question and I slept with her , but I deeply regretted it later on and was sorry that I had n't weighed up the consequences more thoroughly beforehand . |
| 25 | I guess that if I had n't taken up the trenchcoat and fedora to walk the alleyways of history as the greatest detective of them all , I might well have become a poet . |
| 26 | This time she had n't picked up the thread automatically . |
| 27 | I just wish they had n't boarded up the windows . |
| 28 | You will appreciate that as Chairman I have not given up the fight to get as much financial aid and help as is possible to keep our heads above water ; we must fight to keep all that we hold dear and promote the Medau that we all benefit from both in health and fitness , and as teachers , financially . |
| 29 | Meanwhile New Scientist understands that ministers have not taken up the offer of the Greenfield committee to hold further meetings to consider the issues of generic drugs further . |
| 30 | So far — perhaps because of difficulty in finding a sufficiently masochistic emissary — the Americans have not taken up the suggestion . |