Example sentences of "[pers pn] went up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | At about the same time that I went up into the Boys ' School , my friend Hubert Gould moved away to Bournemouth and my other friend Alf Norris moved from The Friary to Greencroft Street and , as this was only two hundred yards from our house , we saw quite a lot of each other . |
2 | Until 1978 that is , when we had the first and last National Conference in this country and after spending about three days cooking rice and feeling very exhausted , I went up on the platform to speak on behalf of Chi lean women and I was made to shut up . |
3 | I mean , I 'd had the feeling before , a bit , the first couple of times I went up on the End , it was that much closer to the spindle . |
4 | ‘ I went up towards the belvedere to take some pictures , that 's all . |
5 | He said I went up to the pub he says , here 's this bloody mate of mine playing piano , he says he 's got all my gear on ! |
6 | My wife and I went up to the pay booth . |
7 | I went up to the door , meaning to look in on her before going , but there seemed to be an argument going on and I decided not to interrupt . ’ |
8 | which was quicker , took her down to the mission , she stayed in the car till I went up to the mission to get our money signed for our money and come out and er |
9 | So I went up to the bar , back to the party , and still could n't find her . ’ |
10 | During the interval , while one of the barmen was taking a mop and bucket to the front of the stage where everybody had been spitting , I went up to the bar to get some more drinks . |
11 | I went up to the union and reported it and asked them to do something about it . |
12 | When I was in the same area again last week ( w/c July 5 '91 ) I went up to the shelters one evening and cleaned out all the rubbish prior to spending the night there . |
13 | In the evening , after a snack rather than a meal , I went up to the loft and used the telescope to take a distant look at the island , making sure that nothing had happened to it while I rested inside the house . |
14 | I went up to the tower sometimes later in the evening for a talk , he had said I might . |
15 | in the bank , I went up to the bank |
16 | I went up to the car park and across |
17 | I went up before the beak at Great Marlborough Street magistrates court . |
18 | its , it 's , it 's the same Saturdays and Sundays , I ca n't get him out of the house and yet soon as we get there we have friends and family and they say , keep saying come on , come up and see us , I went up in the mini on me own one day and spent a couple of days with her , but , it , it ai n't the same when you go on your own , I dare n't go too far in my mini because it 's , it 's erm , it 's not a car that you can be hundred per cent sure of it , I mean as soon as it rains it stops anyway , we went out in it today and there 's all water in the front of the , in the front , but |
19 | When you went up to the shop . |
20 | She went up to the bar . |
21 | She went up to the loft and brought them back . |
22 | Full of energy , she went up to the attic and to Philip , in his white overalls , a brave manikin moving about under the rafters . |
23 | On a Saturday she went up to the attic . |
24 | She went up to the bedroom . |
25 | She went up to the bedroom to see Anna and they spoke together for a long time . ’ |
26 | She went up to the bedroom and gazed at the old four-poster , hardly noticing the faded splendour of its blue and gold canopy as she scrutinised the decorated wooden frieze that ran along the top . |
27 | She went up to the dormitory , where she found her school friends , anxious and exulting over her delay , grieved and relieved that her sortie had escaped detection ; they gathered round her , perched on the bed , drawing cosily round themselves the striped dusty coarse hooped curtains on their brass poles , and they listened to her story . |
28 | He saw the tiny shudder that went through her and felt himself go still as she went up to the horse and began to stroke its face , its flank . |
29 | There was no food in the chalet , so she went up to the house . |
30 | She went up on the hills or down to the beach . |