Example sentences of "go up [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A car going up a dead end at speed was ‘ going nowhere fast ’ ; a ‘ cock and bull story ’ was more often , in his opinion , a ‘ hen and cow story ’ . |
| 2 | When describing the apparent relationship , instead of making the somewhat vague generalization ‘ the higher the X , the higher the Y ’ , the linear summary permits a more precise generalization ‘ every time X goes up a certain amount , Y seems to go up a specified multiple of that amount ’ . |
| 3 | Nice , very nice , you went up a long hall toward , as soon as you got er through the doors it was very nice really , quite , quite something for Caldmore anyway . |
| 4 | When they got there , they went up an outside flight of stairs , then Julius took a bunch of keys out of his pocket . |
| 5 | Later , in the chapel adjoining the castle , Father Jerome said Benediction and prayed for Sara and the life that lay before her ; and then she went up the narrow staircase to her bed and , when Candida had helped her to undress , stood a while longer at her window , looking through the narrow slit at the lights in the harbour and the dark , massive mountains behind . |
| 6 | Here is a test : if you were in Warsaw , faced with an hour to fill before catching a train , would you go up the tallest building in the city to experience a panoramic view , or rush to the bookstore/poster shop in order to buy a massive Telly Savalas poster ? |