Example sentences of "go up [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm nearly seventy , er my pension , will be going up by a pound and odd , I 'm not right sure how much . |
| 2 | In July 1914 air travel was still a novelty to many people and during an outing by employees of an Accrington firm of billiard table makers to Blackpool , a deaf employee named Jack Hargreaves became possibly the first deaf man ever to go up in an aeroplane when he went up as a passenger in a two-seater Fokkers biplane piloted by a Mr. H. Blackburn . |
| 3 | He watches his expression carefully as he goes up to a beggar and puts a coin in his tin . |
| 4 | So I went up into a tree and I stayed there all night . |
| 5 | And seeing the multitudes , he went up into a mountain and when he was set , his disciples came unto him . |
| 6 | Later on , I believe , the pay went up to a pound or even twenty-five shillings for a man , horse and cart . |
| 7 | I got an elbow in the face as I went up for a header and I remember putting my head down and running straight into Bull 's back . |
| 8 | Between 1979 and 1987 the number of inpatients treated in English hospitals went up by a quarter and day cases by almost 60 per cent . |
| 9 | A great roar of a cheer went up from a crowd that was pressing all around . |
| 10 | No one would ever go up to a man and comment on what 's in his trousers ! |
| 11 | did it and the chest wig comes off , you imagine with a penis , you go up with a penis and you , oh what 's that she says , what 's that ? |
| 12 | You go up on a step and then you 've got another pond . |
| 13 | The eyebrows go up in an arch that would make a complete circle if they carried on down , the lids over those eyes , likened to a cobra 's by Candice Bergen , narrow to a slit ; the gleaming white teeth flash through the pursed lips in what Vogue editor Diana Vreeland called a ‘ killer smile ’ . |
| 14 | Oh you have n't gone up to a bar and asked for a pils have you ? |
| 15 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |