Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] up [art] " 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 And tha that is one thing I 'm , I mean I 'm not I 'm not the best driver in the world , but that is one thing I do try not to do cos as you say no matter what the circumstances are , if I go up the back of somebody it is my fault .
4 Will these people notice if I turn up the sound ? ’
5 You 'd kill me if I blew up the school ?
6 ‘ 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 .
7 ‘ 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 .
8 HMS Impregnable 's position was desperate , for if she broke up no one would survive in the conditions .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 If you pick up a sea cucumber , do so with care , for they have an extravagant way of defending themselves .
12 For instance , if you pick up an SPF15 sun cream awarded four stars ( the maximum rating ) , it means that the product filters out UVA and UVB equally , whereas an SPF15 cream with two stars means it filters UVA considerably less effectively than UVB .
13 If you pick up the phone and ring to get seats here you will very often find that you ca n't get through .
14 So resolute are they at keeping hold of one another that even if you pick up the mother , her babies will still hang on to her in a wriggling furry rope .
15 If you walked up the brow at the back of the house you were in two minutes up on a great closely cropped bare turfy expanse , looking down at the sea ; and to the left all the indentations of the coastline , the bays , the beaches and coves within them , the tumble of rocks at the bottom of some sheer cliff , far west to lonely and uninhabitable shores , was visible .
16 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 .
17 Reality says that if you set up a store and you 're undercapitalised , you 're going to go bust .
18 ‘ Now , if you set up a decent practice , somewhere in Belgravia , instead of this … slum , you could come and treat me .
19 If you set up the water to the right parameters , there is no reason why you should no be able to keep this species successfully .
20 No one has yet explained to me what happens to your filter if you set up an aquarium and lock up the ammonia that forms the first stage of the nitrogen cycle as Ammo Lock claims to do .
21 He adds : ‘ If you set up an incentive system for fundholders they may provide services that pay well to the detriment of other groups .
22 If you went up the railway embankment at night , he said , you could look straight into the window of the room Uncle Titch had given her and see her getting undressed .
23 If you get up the P.E .
24 if you bring up the erm thingamy
25 But quite frankly we 'd prefer it if you put up a bit of a fight as we 're a right sadistic bunch .
26 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 .
27 If you mess up the hour or so afterwards , you no doubt will never want to line up to cover the distance again .
28 Florence C commands both saw and herself because if you go up the tree from Florence you find the first branching node , that 's the S node and that dominates both saw and herself .
29 Okay and saw C commands herself because if you go up the tree from saw to the first branching node , you 'll find that branching node also dominates herself .
30 If you summon up the courage to investigate , you might find not alien creatures but a friendly hedgehog or two , emerging from hibernation and foraging for food among the shrubs in your borders .
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