Example sentences of "[verb] go up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now I was up in the air , and what with the clouds , I lost all my orientation Where the clouds parted , I could see the whole tube , land all around me , and it seemed to go up like a tower , so the town and the factory belt and the parks were hanging from the walls over my head , they were all going to crash down on me , and the city on top of them . |
| 2 | Judging by the latest letter he had received from New York , care of Isobel Dawson , it was going to go up with a bang — there had been sufficient talk of banning it to make sure that everybody bought it , without any real danger that it would be banned from the bookstores . |
| 3 | I remembered going up in a gilt elevator . |
| 4 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 5 | Apart from being baked hard by the heat of the lava , these sediments were quite undisturbed , and had been carried bodily as smoothly as if they had gone up in a lift . |
| 6 | because that , he wanted to go up for a medical which was a bit erm , unethical , but I do n't know whether it 's true it 's , you know it 's just what someone said |
| 7 | Dad 's gone up for a bath . ’ |