Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | And would n't it be ironic if John Smith , after much agonising about Labour 's soul and purpose , bit the bullet , and , abandoning what many say was the reason for failure last time , promised not to put up taxes — and nobody believed him . |
| 2 | He had n't , after all , promised not to look up the name and home number of the divisional security officer , and one small stain would n't really count and might not even show . |
| 3 | The Parti Islam ( PAS ) and Razaleigh 's own party , Semangat " 46 ( Spirit of " 46 ) , agreed not to put up candidates against each other . |
| 4 | She threatened not to turn up and only agreed after demanding that her mother Susan Barrantes and sister Jane Makim should be allowed to join her . |
| 5 | POLICE ALERT : Women warned not to pick up hitch-hikers after a ‘ dangerous ’ male mental patient absconded from a Hull hospital . |
| 6 | ‘ Originally he decided not to take up the option because he thought it would upset me , ’ Miranda said lamely . |
| 7 | As a result Cresson dismissed Soisson ( who declined to resign from his Burgundy post ) from the Cabinet on March 28 , while Rausch decided not to take up his regional post . |
| 8 | But doctors decided not to patch up her wounds in casualty for fear of scarring her for life . |
| 9 | But doctors decided not to patch up her wounds in casualty for fear of scarring her for life . |
| 10 | Miss Kyte chose not to take up the challenge . |
| 11 | Irina , who did not dress up for Ludens , was wearing a simple faded old dress , frail with much washing , the sleeves rolled up well above her elbows . |
| 12 | They did not give up their privileges easily . |
| 13 | The petition did not succeed , but the governors did not give up . |
| 14 | But Booth did not give up . |
| 15 | Orkney Islands Council did not give up without a fight . |
| 16 | Yet still Lesley still did not give up , keeping after her attacker and sending a radio SOS to police control with her call sign , Delta Romeo Three Two . |
| 17 | Fergie did not give up easily . |
| 18 | The member of parliament did not give up his efforts to find a place for the young officer , but the close connection between parliamentary politics and placement was made abundantly clear by Scott 's insistence to his correspondent that the young man 's father , a Dundee councillor , would first have to make clear ‘ whether he is to be friendly ’ to the politician . |
| 19 | But the Padre did not give up easily . |
| 20 | Storms blew down the trees , fires ravaged the plantation , dry years killed our saplings — but we did not give up , we laboured on ! " |
| 21 | The report suggested that the Bulgarian leadership did not give up the idea until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985 . |
| 22 | Despite moments of despondency , de Gaulle himself certainly did not give up hope . |
| 23 | The rocks missed him , yet Jack did not give up and set alight the forest . |
| 24 | The things which came out in therapy did not make up a complete , finished jigsaw , as I might have imagined . |
| 25 | As in the recent past , and as was to be the case with much greater frequency after the start of the Five-Year Plans , planners in Moscow drew up neat and rather abstract formulations that did not match up closely with local realities and timings . |
| 26 | When I started to make it up to my horror I found the stripes did not match up front and back . |
| 27 | But the pair returned to Britain a few weeks ago after homesick Joanna complained that Rome did not match up to Newcastle . |
| 28 | An independent report found that many of the plants did not match up to European safety standards , burned high sulphur coal , and were badly sited . |
| 29 | Alistair did not go up to Leeds for the weekend . |
| 30 | She did not go up to London to see her lover without first drawing fifteen pounds out of her bank account , and thinking up a convincing story to tell her parents , and packing a good book to read on the train ( it was U.S.A. by John dos Passos , and she had read four and a half pages of it before she had been interrupted by her neighbour 's knee ) , and looking up her lover 's address in the A to Z. |