Example sentences of "[noun sg] go up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She begs her sister to go up to the top of the tower of the castle and look out for them , and keeps calling out to her , ‘ Anne , sister Anne , dost thou see nothing coming ? ’
2 ‘ Do I have your permission to go up to the belvedere and look around ? ’
3 Blood-sugar level goes up on the digestion of food .
4 Perhaps yeah I think you must have been airborne at that stage to be er , had such a enormous flame going up into the balloon .
5 Current members of the Club go up for the weekend to climb ( this year it was too cold — even the lakes were frozen ) and after dinner retire to doss on whatever floor may be found .
6 The horse went up to the manger and stood there .
7 A shout of laughter goes up from the room .
8 If she had thought of it , she would have looked before : she had registered the reporter and photographer going up to the flat above , and had said to herself that they did n't , very obviously , have the class of the young men from the London Sundays .
9 By the time she had got her cases up to the guest room , made the bed up and sorted out her food supplies it was beginning to get dark and , although she had a burning desire to go up to the studio , caution prevailed .
10 This time the ascension does not bring down the curtain on the life of Jesus ; instead , the curtain goes up on the life of the Church .
11 But I have seen a coke stove , cast iron coke stove on a chimney going up to the ceiling in the dark absolutely glowing bright , bright , red .
12 In fact , they were so bad in the one matinee performance in which they were tried out , that the original speeches were reinstated by the time the curtain went up at the Globe Theatre that evening .
13 Suddenly a cry went up along the line .
14 Would the curtain go up on the world 's greatest surfing spectacle before I had to leave — or would it all go ahead without me ?
15 The place went up in a matter of minutes .
16 They rested on elbows , or lay stretched like Stars , stomachs in sand , smooth heads together , a brown hand lifting a white cigarette to a rose-painted mouth , and a line of malachite green smoke going up into the air , which was not here the intense cobalt of the plain of Orange , but pearl-cream-gold , a heavy air , soft and undulating like the pale sand and beyond it the warm , hazed , sand-green sea .
17 Soon they could all see similar columns of smoke going up in every direction .
18 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 .
19 A hell of a roar went up in the canteen at lunch break when one of the shop stewards said that Clasper would go on fighting on behalf of the workers until every bloody one of them had lost their jobs .
20 A roar went up from the crowd .
21 A great roar of a cheer went up from a crowd that was pressing all around .
22 When word of the Everqueen 's presence was known , a great cheer went up from the army , and all the warriors gained new heart .
23 An undisciplined cheer went up from the crew members who had been watching the fight .
24 A great cheer went up from the crowd as Otley approached daubed with my blue eye shadow and making threatening gestures in the direction of the enemy .
25 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 .
26 The notice board went up outside the pub today and Charles will update them very week .
27 The bucket went up in a geyser of flame , yellow and blue and white .
28 Clap your hands and insist that natural gas goes up in a puff of noxious air .
29 Instead of looking for new approaches that could galvanize the industry to deal with its problems , the call went up for a leader who would , in the words of one Bioscope editorial , be able ‘ to make order out of disorder , to organize agreement and concord with a strong hand , tactfully and helpfully , yet with a stern repression of pettiness and ignoble motives . ’ .
30 The daughter went up to the body of her mother and initially started talking quietly to her , tears streaming down her face .
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