Example sentences of "up went the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure enough , the twenty-minute time pencils activated the detonators and up went the aircraft . |
| 2 | Up went the yellow flag . |
| 3 | But er if you had to paper the parlour was always papered in the ceiling but he kitchen was always whitewashed because we had these , if I explain to you these er fireplaces that er were n't very successful burning coal you know and the smoke would rise and before you knew where you were the ceiling was black again so sort of every so often up went the whitewash brush and you 'd whitewash the the ceiling . |
| 4 | Up went the visor . |
| 5 | At the end of every round off came the gold knob and up went the stick . |
| 6 | ( b ) For emphasis : Down came the rain and up went the umbrellas . |
| 7 | As the novelist E. M. Forster was to put it in the Indian summer of the bourgeoisie : ‘ In came the dividends , up went the lofty thoughts . ’ |