Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] go up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
| 2 | Between 1979 and 1987 the number of inpatients treated in English hospitals went up by a quarter and day cases by almost 60 per cent . |
| 3 | This fellow went up to a chap ( you could not tell who were NCOs or who were officers ) who was just resting because it was very hard work and we were working under pressure , and said sharply : " What is the trouble with you , have you run out of sandbags ? " |
| 4 | Clap your hands and insist that natural gas goes up in a puff of noxious air . |
| 5 | THREE arms go up in a golden salute as brothers Jonny and Greg Searle celebrate victory with Garry Herbert in the 2000m coxed pairs . |
| 6 | ‘ All boats go up on a rising tide , ’ observes Frank Delaney philosophically at the end of one of those come-on-Fred-we-give-you-all-this-advertising-how-about-an-in-depth-profile pieces , in this case on Harper-Collins , that PN does so well . |
| 7 | I wanner go up in a pile a smoke an' flames an' eye shadder an' levver shoes an' dancin' an' all that I 'll go like them girls in the magazines Sharon an' you ai n't goin' ter stop me . |
| 8 | There was this scene right at the end where the woman lights a cigarette after she 's left the gas on the cooker on and everything goes up in an explosion ; and then in the very next advert there was a car driving through a field , and the whole field went up in a sheet of flame . |
| 9 | I 'd arranged with the local flying club to go up in a small ‘ Cub ’ training aircraft , which is well-suited for aerial photography as it has a very slow cruising speed . |