Example sentences of "went up the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If my dad went up the wall with that , what was he going to do with me ?
2 I did not know what it could be , but I tried to reassure her and went up the road to where the policeman lived .
3 ‘ I knew something wonderful was going to happen , ’ said Bobbie , as they went up the road .
4 I went up the road and it went bang and blew a out the back !
5 So I carried it carefully like this , arm round the waist you see and off I went up the road for about forty fifty yards and put one in .
6 They went up the river together .
7 So I chipped it into a little space over the scrum , ran round , picked it up and went up the middle of the field .
8 They looked perfectly ordinary , and they turned in through the gates and went up the drive .
9 Kevin went up the back stairs , Mary chattering like a magpie .
10 I went up the steps until the water barely covered my ankles and tried the doorlatch .
11 Judging from all the chatter , everyone in UCD must have got to know each other pretty quickly , Benny thought as she went up the steps the following morning .
12 Bodie went up the steps and stared down at the girl , who looked up at him pathetically .
13 I went up the steps and into the hotel .
14 Without a sound , I went up the steps , pushed open the door and went in .
15 Wycliffe went up the steps to the verandah and peered through the window , but because of reflections it was not easy to see inside .
16 Well I was er it would be about nineteen twenty two , I was about , cos I , I was er used trip the light fantastic fantastic a bit you know when I ran about seventeen and we used to which billiard hall there was an entrance from Street and it went up the steps into the dance hall , it was over the top of the billiard hall right to the private houses next to them , it was quite a I was sixteen , seventeen in that er dance hall at the time .
17 Curious , I went up the path to have a look at it and I discovered to my no great surprise that it marked the entrance to a churchyard .
18 Nobody thought it odd that Mother Francis often went up the path past the blackberries to read her Office up by the cottage .
19 Stephen went up the path and looked in the window .
20 ‘ Jesus , ’ he repeated and turned up his collar and went up the path .
21 They went up the path to the Victorian house that contained her flat .
22 Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water , Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after .
23 Jack and Jill went up the hill , yes , and Jack fell down with Jill tumbling after also ; But it was in no manner a simple fall .
24 ‘ No , you see , Lady Woodleigh , it was not Miss Abernethie who was responsible for the death of Jack who went up the hill .
25 We often went up the hill from The Gantry , for a stroll , you know .
26 No went up the hill
27 Quickly , I went up the hill to watch .
28 Probably it went up the hill in a series of gentle planes .
29 I told him either that file went up the Hill maybe with the list he 'd recruited or it all went in the shredder . ’
30 They reached the bottom of the alleyway , went up the hill and into the Tower through a rear postern gate .
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