Example sentences of "go [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Yes , well these , all wasps of course , er tend to er hit the fruit juice at this time of the year , and that fruit juice is very often fermenting , and you get a particularly er waspish reaction , er naturally , when er somebody goes to pick up a fallen apple or windfall pear , and they pick up a handful of wasp , inadvertently , and I think this year , particularly with a shortage of water , more wasps of all species have been driven to attack fruit , er and are feeding on the er fruit juice , much of which is fermenting .
2 I 'm going to write up a suggested arrangement on the board now .
3 Mr are you going to pick up the first point and then Mr .
4 I am going to set up a two foot tank .
5 I am going to set up a two foot tank .
6 ‘ And you 're not going to grow up an Irish yob !
7 ‘ And anyway , Marius said this boy was coming over and he was going to draw up a new will , and would we witness it ? … ’
8 I 'm going to put up a good fight .
9 If you 're going to keep up the same pattern of commitments the answer is that the army is already stretched as it clan be and so are the other two services and this is putting a terrific strain on the individual servicemen and their families .
10 In fact , we 've stolen some nuclear weapons and we 're going to tell the government we 're going to blow up the whole country unless they let us play Wembley . ’
11 Once get your heroine into one of those confrontations that are going to make up the greater part of her adventure , once have her facing another person and the words will flow .
12 The Independent Labour Party in its rapid decline gave rise to several minorities besides those going to make up the Socialist League .
13 But what I had also noticed was that certain firms for example that w were er th then extant , er they in fact would s er say have a three-piece moved , and you 'd have a huge van would go to pick up a three-piece suite .
14 ‘ Not the sort of place you 'd go to pick up a new ribbon ? ’
15 So when I went creaking up the winding back staircase to the two attics and looked in through their respective doors ( ‘ Do n't touch , dear …
16 If the police went charging up a blind alley as a result of her information , it would n't be her fault .
17 Melanie went to clear up the broken toy .
18 Some of these rules are concerned with the different components which go to make up a traditional story — the kind of story which is orally handed down from generation to generation .
19 Later , it is important to try to understand and work through the different strands of feeling which go to make up the total experience of loss .
20 The reproductive system , the digestive system , the thinking system all go to make up the overall system .
21 The Bullock Report offered clear support for language in teacher education : ‘ Among the modules that go to make up the professional training element there should be a compulsory one on language in education ’ ( DES , 1975 : 337–8 ) .
22 Though he does not develop the metaphor , Paul would , I think , agree with the fuller details to be found in I Peter : individual Christians are spiritual stones which go to make up the spiritual temple which is built on Christ ( I Pet .
23 While this kind of breakdown does help one to comprehend the various strands and stages that go to make up the current system , it is rather crude .
24 The novel proves that knowledge is possible , but also that it is in a sense artificial : it does not come from the past , historical knowledge in particular can not simply be uncovered , laid bare and put out to view ( or rather , the novelist can no longer create the illusion that the past is speaking for itself ) ; it is a construction of the past , and the reader is conscious of , and in compliance with , the careful disposition and organization of the disparate elements that go to make up the whole edifice .
25 They include current selection theory describing the mechanisms of biological change , accounts of animal studies that provide evidence concerning the psychobiological ‘ platform ’ from which human life ascended , inferences from infrahuman primates and other animals to man , and finally a treatment of the evolution of the component faculties that go to make up the human mind .
26 With stupefaction one thinks of the wholesale slaughter of ducks and chickens , of pheasant and quail , the shiploads of Dover sole and the immense cargoes of foie gras from France , of caviare from Russia , the crates of champagne and the tons of truffles , which went to make up a single day 's entertainment in the great hotels of Europe .
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