Example sentences of "if the [noun sg] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these schemes , a widow 's or widower 's pension can only be achieved if the member gives up part of their own retirement pension . |
| 2 | If the price goes up 9% and his costs stay about the same maybe up 5% or so , er his actual bottom line is his income at the end of the year will in fact increase by about 60% . |
| 3 | Premadasa on March 23 appealed to the LTTE to " enter the democratic process " , promising that " if the LTTE gives up violence , the government will lose no time in holding fresh elections to the North-Eastern Provincial Council and to the local government institutions in that province " . |
| 4 | If the paddler builds up speed and then stops paddling , the boat will drift on in a straight line . |
| 5 | It singles out one form of non-marital living arrangement and penalises it ( if the woman sets up house with her sister , her father , her adult children or her lesbian lover she would still have some entitlement to SB ) . |