Example sentences of "go [to-vb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ordinary wild plants , it seems , are weedier than crops , but both have a long way to go to catch up with the real pests . |
| 2 | ‘ By the time we get through that little lot , ’ smiled Dr Danie Craven , ‘ at least we will know how bad we are and how far we have to go to catch up . ’ |
| 3 | The birth was on July 1st and at 7 lb 7 oz he 's got a long way to go to catch up to dad . |
| 4 | In sampling and inspecting water quality he is his own agent to decide where and when he goes to pick up a sample . |
| 5 | Yes , well these , all wasps of course , er tend to er hit the fruit juice at this time of the year , and that fruit juice is very often fermenting , and you get a particularly er waspish reaction , er naturally , when er somebody goes to pick up a fallen apple or windfall pear , and they pick up a handful of wasp , inadvertently , and I think this year , particularly with a shortage of water , more wasps of all species have been driven to attack fruit , er and are feeding on the er fruit juice , much of which is fermenting . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I really thought the whole place was going to go up . ’ |
| 8 | If you were aboard a vessel that was either going to go up or drag you down when it sank , what would your natural reaction be ? ’ |
| 9 | Yeah we 're going to go up to two thousand eight hundred are n't we so we 're going up in |
| 10 | He was just going to go up to her to give it back , when the girl did something very strange . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm going to go up there and ask Gaskell what he thinks he 's playing at . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ No one 's going to go up the mountains ! |
| 13 | ‘ I said to him , ‘ But no one 's going to go up the mountains ! |
| 14 | ‘ And then you said : ‘ But no one 's going to go up the mountains ! ’ |
| 15 | But erm it is a risk because you do n't know whether they 're going to go up or down . |
| 16 | What I 'm going to do is to examine now I 'm going to go up the collar bone first over the shoulder pad , T-shirt with a shoulder pad . |
| 17 | First to be built was a concrete block-house , reinforced with metal struts , which it soon became apparent was a large pill-box to protect whatever it was that was going to go up . |
| 18 | So I said I had to make a quick decision either I was going to go up me chain past his whatsit and into the roof , or else go thirty feet down and run right across the chamber into whichever er level they could go to . |
| 19 | X is going to go up when Y is a million . |
| 20 | So it 's going to go up like that , gradually Good |
| 21 | Here we go and that is that , up to now , erm we 've only made six beams , we 've got to reach , for these tanks , we want to make sixty and the problem is we 're on stop now redesign the whole thing and going on the present rate of production we 're going to go up to about week twenty-eight . |
| 22 | Well she was going to go up Kingswood to see Lynn . |
| 23 | she said was she was going to go up about twelve ? |
| 24 | Mm so he was going to go up to . |
| 25 | Katie 's come across a problem she 's got too many bits , so she 's going to go up and along , this time she 's |
| 26 | Our monies going to go up and down like a yo-yo really . |
| 27 | I 'm going to go up to there so |
| 28 | I think they 're fantastic , even though they 're not going to go up this season . |
| 29 | Hold on tight now — I 'm going to whip up the horse . |
| 30 | ‘ He said he was going to drive up to the Spaniard 's for a drink . |