Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top-up arrangements are not permitted as part of a tender offer ( SAR 4.1(c) ) so the buyer could not make up the difference to shareholders who have already sold if a full bid on improved terms is made subsequently . |
| 2 | For all their talk about the wisdom of the marketplace , the Thatcher government could not give up the paternalistic idea that they had to regulate the independent television companies , with the continuation of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the guise of an Independent Television Commission . |
| 3 | If the plaintiff was in possession at the time of the conversion , the defendant could not set up the jus tertii , unless he was acting under the authority of the true owner . |
| 4 | Guttersnipe could not summon up the enthusiasm required to wade through sufficient of this turgid stuff to find out what the ‘ bizarre test ’ was but suspects it might have something to do with explaining the meaning of the words ‘ Do-be-do-be-do ’ at the end of his popular tune ‘ Strangers In The Night ’ . |
| 5 | Sadly , it was inevitable that we could not keep up the pace against Twitchit Albion , especially with so many of our squad approaching the twilight of their careers . |
| 6 | There were only 500,000 TV sets ( 1957 ( and 50 per cent of Frenchmen could not pick up the one black-and-white channel : but politicians perceived the potential of what was to become — under de Gaulle — a mass medium . |
| 7 | At present it appears that local authorities can draw up individual access arrangements with the new owners , but this is not a satisfactory solution , partly because some authorities may not have the motivation to do so , and partly because they are all very short of money and could not back up the agreements financially . |
| 8 | They had sent a telegram to Louise ( Constance could not pluck up the courage to speak to her ) ; Ludovico had telephoned a friend about somewhere for them to stay and they had eaten what to Constance , used to English food , seemed the most delicious lunch she had ever tasted . |
| 9 | But the most annoying aspect of the early period was the lack of real interest shown by our first council members — at times we could n't muster up the required six members for a quorum at the monthly meetings . |
| 10 | I could n't keep up the pretence any longer . |
| 11 | If he could n't keep up the whacked — out , languid image , you feel he 'd be ripping himself apart with guilt and recriminations . |
| 12 | But it was n't actually , it were something else , and people were finding that their goods were repossessed because they could n't keep up the payments . |
| 13 | He tried to hit me , kept pummelling me with his podgy fists , but he could n't summon up the necessary enthusiasm . |
| 14 | and could n't pick up the sodding two . |
| 15 | What about in rounders when you could n't pick up the ball . |