Example sentences of "went up [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curtain went up on the second act to reveal the face from this image lying on the ground where it was walked over and trampled on by the cast . |
| 2 | Patrick took his tea and went up to the first floor , to the long landing window which looked over the village green . |
| 3 | We went up to the second floor and knocked at Manisha 's flat . |
| 4 | Blake then went up to the second floor of the block and along to the main window . |
| 5 | Alice went up to the second floor in the lift , let herself into the flat and read , for the ninth or tenth time , the letter she had left for Mike . |
| 6 | He went up to the next floor , where uniformed footmen and maids were dispensing coffee and cakes , biscuits and ices . |
| 7 | He began to recite a litany of his own successes to himself as he passed down the quiet , thickly carpeted corridors to the executive lift that went up to the eighteenth floor : a new apartment in the smart suburb of Beauséjour ; a smaller apartment in Montparnasse , with a most accommodating young mistress ; two cars , one the largest and latest registration Citroën Familiale ; a generous expense account , which was not queried too closely — he hoped was not queried too closely . |
| 8 | Odd , that , Mike thought as he went up to the third floor in the rattling old lift . |
| 9 | She wanted to check on some of her cultures before they left the building , so they went up to the third floor and along a corridor lined with rooms numbered for experimentation and behavioural study . |
| 10 | They walked to the lift and went up to the fourth floor . |