Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’ |
| 2 | Yes and there If I If I pull up a bit and back out there . |
| 3 | ‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one . |
| 4 | ‘ All sight if I walk up a bit ? he called to Marty , who was leaning forward with his elbow on the wheel and his open palm supporting his chin . |
| 5 | I have been to the Benefits Agency in my constituency , where the manager and staff made it plain to me that if staff were concerned about their safety they would not wear a name badge — but most of them want to because they want to be able to be identified by the public , so that if someone rings up a week later he can identify the person to whom he spoke a week before . |
| 6 | If you wrote up a route between September 1990 and April 1991 it would be helpful if you repeated the description in the new book . |
| 7 | If you pick up a handful of ordinary package brochures , America will be there : Crystal , Inghams , Intasun , Neilson and Thomson all have new or expanded American programmes . |
| 8 | If you pick up a sea cucumber , do so with care , for they have an extravagant way of defending themselves . |
| 9 | I thought if you hold up a box of Roses chocolates , grin at it and say , ‘ Mmm … great chocolates ! ’ everybody quite correctly will despise you . |
| 10 | Reality says that if you set up a store and you 're undercapitalised , you 're going to go bust . |
| 11 | ‘ Now , if you set up a decent practice , somewhere in Belgravia , instead of this … slum , you could come and treat me . |
| 12 | But quite frankly we 'd prefer it if you put up a bit of a fight as we 're a right sadistic bunch . |
| 13 | Robson was , in one sense , simply echoing the words of Maitland that ‘ if you take up a modern volume of the reports of the Queen 's Bench division , you will find that about half the cases reported have to do with rules of administrative law ’ and that you must ‘ not neglect their existence in your general description of what English law is ’ otherwise ‘ you will frame a false and antiquated notion of our constitution ’ The fact that Robson felt the need to propound this view so strongly , and that Maitland 's thoughts seemed to have been almost entirely neglected , serve to indicate that conservative normativism had by the 1920s become established as the dominant tradition . |
| 14 | So the people at the front yeah if if you come up a little bit closer . |
| 15 | there if you clear up a bit ! |
| 16 | Yeah , oh I know I 've said time and time again to them if you park up a bit , you know that house |
| 17 | If we set up a regression formula ( or companion matrix ) for the cubic , we find the next factor to be ( unc + 1 ) , as we have already noted . |
| 18 | Maybe if we set up a few committees , something will happen . ’ |
| 19 | If we make up a helical coil ( Fig. 4.2(b) ) the wires are going round always in the same direction so the voltages simply add and we may rewrite eqn ( 4.13 ) in the form |
| 20 | It is a matter of common experience that if one heats up a poker in a fire it glows red hot and emits radiation , but bodies at lower temperatures emit radiation too ; one just does not normally notice it because the amount is fairly small . |
| 21 | ‘ It seems to me that if one sets up a quango and it spends 26% of the money disbursed on its own administration , that is a pretty high percentage . ’ |
| 22 | In general terms this means that if one sets up a trust to accumulate income , and the settlor has not completely divested himself of the trust property , he will be chargeable to income tax on the trust income . |
| 23 | Roy Keane , Niall Quinn , Ray Houghton , Steve Staunton and Kevin Moran will all incur a one-match ban if they pick up a second yellow card tomorrow . |
| 24 | If they dream up a bright profit-winning idea , even if it involves walking in the dirty waters of pornography as the 0898 service does , the Government are unable or unwilling to do anything about it , even over a six-year period . |
| 25 | Well see if it comes up a bit . |
| 26 | If it laps up a little of this , the ethylene glycol may cause irreversible kidney damage . |
| 27 | If he put up a scheme , you would be willing to follow him to the ends of the earth to ensure its fulfilment . |
| 28 | Jim Lauderdale is like a neutered Dwight Yoakam , though his tribute to George Jones and Gram , ‘ The King Of Broken Hearts ’ suggests he could be exciting if he loosened up a taste . |
| 29 | ‘ But I will be happy if he snaps up a chance or two . ’ |