Example sentences of "they went up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The guard who had brought them went up beside the chair , knelt and spoke quietly to Bruce in a language Corbett could not understand and guessed that it was probably Gaelic , a language totally alien to him .
2 ‘ So they went up to the village pub and had a few drinks .
3 And then they went up to the village and it the first one would been 's , 's and and 's .
4 They went up to the street with her , Tom carrying her coat and Peter her case .
5 When they went up to the study Ethel and Mary waited outside with the little trays of sundries , catching glimpses of the people in the room , all of them nervously talking in high voices .
6 On Sunday they went up to the common , a performance ; lifting the pram , Emma still insisted on for the sake of Ruth 's spine , into and off the tube , the escalators .
7 He met Pilger in the foyer and they went up to the room .
8 After some minutes they went up to the room .
9 They went up in a paternoster lift which cranked regularly past its otherwise vacant portals .
10 She lived on the fifth floor of a pre-war block , and when they went up in the lift she casually passed him her handbag and said , Hold this , and started to take her clothes off .
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