Example sentences of "[pers pn] up [conj] [pers pn] [verb] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Stay calm , Roger , I could have blown you up but I did n't . |
| 2 | After a concert or disco , if you 've arranged for someone to pick you up and they do n't arrive — speak to the organisers and ask them if you can phone home . |
| 3 | Yeah , but the thing is i we can get the steel er and make them up but we do n't have to put them on till later . |
| 4 | Then I would help to cheer them up , but I would n't cheer them up if they did n't want to , I think that 's wrong . |
| 5 | If she admitted that Ryan smoked her parents would probably break them up and she did n't want that . |
| 6 | sitting in and we 're trying to split them up cos we do n't want too |
| 7 | I wanted to but I could n't pick them up cos I had n't got enough . |
| 8 | Like , Friday night all the boys came up and then they picked me up and we did n't come back . |
| 9 | But call me up if you do n't have enough . |
| 10 | In fact I 'm playing Xerium , of all things , and blow me down , blow me up if I have n't just found out how to get over the Mountains of Zound at long , long last . |
| 11 | She had to take all the money in his wallet , she explained , because her ‘ business manager ’ would beat her up if she did n't turn in the profits . |
| 12 | ‘ They did n't know we 'd picked him up and I did n't tell them . |
| 13 | He 's admitted twice telling lies to the police , but says his wife was trying to set him up and he did n't want detectives to believe her story . |
| 14 | So we just write it up but we do n't actually |
| 15 | Oh no we 've got some really hard numbers french if I had a dictionary I could look it up but I have n't . |
| 16 | It 's not worth giving it up if you have n't chosen to give it up . |
| 17 | Always eat it up if I do n't go . |
| 18 | So I taught him that the first week , and the second week we went back and there was still only him , so it I taught him how to rewire a plug how to do it properly and er went back a third week and he was s still the only one there , so we went through it again , see if he 'd picked it up and he had n't so . |
| 19 | But there 's a lot of incidents that I do that I just go out , clear it up and I do n't even report a lot of them because you 're only making paperwork for yourself . |
| 20 | Well I was t taking piano lessons , studying for the exams I went over the top , I had to give it up and I did n't go to school then for another eighteen months . |