Example sentences of "went up to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , we took a taxi and all went up to the mountainous part — a good way into the interior — to a little village called something like Kaloxilos , where Maria 's grandmother lived and had a garden . |
| 2 | I am sure she went up to the poor man 's room , picked up the thread lying there , pulled out the slow fuse , lit it with a tinder and then came back down here . ’ |
| 3 | They went up to the small room where Eve had lived for as long as she could remember . |
| 4 | Patrick took his tea and went up to the first floor , to the long landing window which looked over the village green . |
| 5 | Patrick nodded and went up to the front door . |
| 6 | With these words , Maisie snapped her mask up to her face and went up to the front door . |
| 7 | So I went up to the general manager Mr and he he sa told me certainly I can go . |
| 8 | Stairs on the right went up to the sixteen guest rooms . |
| 9 | We went up to the second floor and knocked at Manisha 's flat . |
| 10 | Blake then went up to the second floor of the block and along to the main window . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Meg went up to the familiar ward hoping against hope to find Carolyn back in her bed again . |
| 13 | Now , we very rarely went up to the great city and , when we did , Benjamin kept a close eye and a tight rein on me . |
| 14 | After acclamations before the Lateran Palace , like those that had already taken place in front of St Peter 's , the new pope went up to the principal part of the palace , called the Leonine presbyterium , and later celebrated with a banquet . |
| 15 | We went up to the top floor and were told to sleep in a room full of grey metal bunks and steel lockers , and to sleep fully clothed to avoid the lice . |
| 16 | Several times in the next few months I went up to the top floor again , where I could look out of the high windows in the roof to see the surrounding countryside and be alone with my thoughts . |
| 17 | We all went up to the top floor , and entered the room where Mason had been attacked . |
| 18 | He went up to the next floor , where uniformed footmen and maids were dispensing coffee and cakes , biscuits and ices . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Mind , she did n't go out this afternoon cos they went , some of them went up to the British Legion Club this afternoon . |
| 21 | Odd , that , Mike thought as he went up to the third floor in the rattling old lift . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Overcome by the regalia worn by this very tall man , John went up to the august personage , slipped a small hand into one of his , and asked ‘ are you the king ? ’ |
| 24 | They walked to the lift and went up to the fourth floor . |
| 25 | Twenty-six out of 40 of the ‘ torturers ’ went up to the 450-volt level . |
| 26 | So , I 'd got this house and two or three of us from the refuge went up to the old house and packed everything ready to move . |