Example sentences of "not [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I , I , do n't think no , no , there not gazing up is it really , I mean is , its so huge you could n't miss them |
| 2 | Try to go to bed only when you 're tired but do not stay up past a certain critical time , say one hour after you would normally go to bed . |
| 3 | Ten years and a couple of hundred hotel nights later , the memory lingers on : the yellow lino with glitter detail , the handle hanging from the wardrobe , a flickering fluorescent light over the bed , with its violent orange blanket and holed sheets , a television alternating colour and mono , and a bathroom straight from Fawlty Towers — threadbare towels , tacky unwrapped soap and a toilet lid which would not stay up . |
| 4 | They will not stay up there ! |
| 5 | He will , however , not make up his mind whether to fly out Sam Torrance 's father , who he has not seen for six months , until after today 's final round in New Orleans , where he is also the defending champion . |
| 6 | That 's not unusual , because I quite often find that one partner 's not working and therefore they 're not using up their tax allowance so at retirement or before , I can move money into their name , and there are good reasons for doing that . |
| 7 | Whatever flickerings of potential this young tyro possesses , they can not cover up the fact that he is a painter with the imagination of a retarded adolescent ; no technical mastery ; no intuitive feeling for pictorial space ; no sensitivity towards , or grasp of , tradition ; and a colour sense rather less than that of Congo , the chimpanzee who was taught ( among other things ) a crude responsiveness to colour harmonies by Desmond Morris in the late 1950s . |
| 8 | Do not cover up aspects of your lifestyle , such as heavy drinking , which you think may make you look less respectable . |
| 9 | some some extra layers on this , I mean I think that 's very valid and the extra layers include er one , the fact that since then there have been a number of royals who have divorced and so it is not unique for royals to be divorced and the Church of England has not jumped up and down about the fact that there are royals who are divorced particularly given that the , you know the Church of England are opposed to divorce . |
| 10 | Because of the ‘ unconvincing nature ’ of the compromise , he could not make up his mind whether he should apply for membership . |
| 11 | She could conceivably be denied by Kitrina Douglas , the winner of this season 's St Moritz Classic and European Masters , although even if she were to win each of the last four tournaments , she still might not make up the £30,000 deficit on De Lorenzi . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , Piper , if you can not make up your mind , you are welcome to spend the night at the Police Station ; I have two empty cells at the moment . |
| 14 | They would say , not without truth , ‘ Britain claims to be head of the Empire , but can not make up her own mind . ’ |
| 15 | The reports of international commissions such as that of Brandt do not make up for this gap . |
| 16 | Mr Collor 's problem is that although money is no obstacle to his multi-million dollar campaign , it does not make up for the thousands of enthusiastic party militants campaigning for his rival . |
| 17 | But these are isolated groups which do not make up a force . ’ |
| 18 | Other Hamlets have been as wrong-headed : Laurence Olivier 's of 1948 , perhaps , which charted ‘ the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind ’ , or Grigori Konzintsev 's Marxist version of 1964 . |
| 19 | The things which came out in therapy did not make up a complete , finished jigsaw , as I might have imagined . |
| 20 | The Great War and those more recent conflicts were put together and ‘ paid-for ’ on behalf of politicians who could not make up their minds or bring the problems to the debating-table ; who preferred the shouting and smearing , the innuendo and hate for their opponents ' parties , to the welfare and the good of their people . |
| 21 | She could not make up her mind whether to risk wearing them for the competition . |
| 22 | The recent price recovery can not make up for that much lost ground . |
| 23 | If the contractions can not make up their mind about starting or not , that is they come and go and labour is not properly established , take one dose of Pulsatilla 200 every 2 hours until the contractions do make up their mind . |
| 24 | France and the USSR have already indicated that they will not make up the deficit . |
| 25 | This word can convey several meanings but one of them expresses an inner state of mind so torn between various options that it can not make up its mind . |
| 26 | Wellington could not make up its mind , so nominated both . |
| 27 | In other words , technology does not make up for Europe 's high labour costs . |
| 28 | It follows that we can not make up a square matrix X of eigenvectors to satisfy ( 8 ) ; for this reason the matrix B is said to be defective . |
| 29 | I could not make up my mind which was cause and which effect . |
| 30 | And when a half-page profile of Jean-Claude appeared in Le Nouvel Observateur I really could not make up my mind whether he was more genuinely displeased than pleased . |