Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] n't [vb pp] up " in BNC.
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1 | I mean Aunty Mary , well I do n't given up talking to her she 'd she says bus and I just let it go . |
2 | You see , I had just graduated to the position of providing a horse and cart , and any amount of people wanted that job so I would have lost it , maybe for good , if I had n't turned up . |
3 | Wish I had n't messed up every relationship I ever had . ’ |
4 | I had n't given up , but that was an ever-present temptation which had to be fought . |
5 | ‘ I wish I had n't given up , ’ Alison was saying , ‘ it was just lack of courage . ’ |
6 | ‘ I 'd put the new tyre on , but I had n't tightened up the wheel . ’ |
7 | It soon became reasonably certain that I had n't picked up any kind of tails or bugs , and so I could begin to relax . |
8 | I had n't picked up on it , and he had no hand at all in your coming to work for me . |
9 | It might have continued like this indefinitely if I had n't picked up a copy of the Kensington News , a paper Daphne took so she could find out what was showing at the local picture house . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | What would everyone back at the cafe have thought when , for the first time in eight months , I had n't shown up for work ? |
13 | ‘ I could n't have lived with myself if I had n't put up a fight on behalf of the men . ’ |
14 | I have n't made up my mind just yet , indeed , I do n't quite know what to do . |
15 | ‘ Mebbe , I have n't made up my mind . |
16 | I have n't grown up at all , she thought hopelessly . |
17 | ‘ Well , I have n't done up to now . ’ |
18 | Okey dokey , oh they 've got those in again , mind you I have n't filled up what I 've got yet , so |
19 | right , I 'll just nip over and get it , cos I have n't locked up yet maybe I wo n't I have n't got ten P , I 've only got two pennies , just have to make sure back |
20 | Firstly , you know , I have n't given up painting ; if I get an idea for a painting tomorrow , I 'll do it . |
21 | I have n't given up on Dana yet . ’ |
22 | But they , they so , so , you can , I mean I have n't phoned up yet , but , they , you can just have the , the slates replaced , you keep all your fittings |
23 | I have n't come up with a snappy title yet , so suggest away on that and other points . |
24 | Although I have n't , well I have n't marked up anywhere that I 've got it . |
25 | but I said look it 's Wednesday lunch time , I have n't woke up yet , I do n't wake up to Friday night |
26 | She has n't grown up yet . ’ |
27 | I think she should have played a Tour Event before an exhibition event , but then again it would n't be the first time she has n't turned up for a Tour Event would it ? |
28 | But she has n't gone up there for ages . |
29 | He could be wild and crazy at times and she had n't faced up to the fact that the way he lived his life was doing him no good , no good at all . |
30 | ‘ He said he thought his mummy had been having car trouble because she had n't turned up . |