Example sentences of "went up [prep] the [adj] [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 | ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’ |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . ’ |
5 | They went up to the small room where Eve had lived for as long as she could remember . |
6 | Patrick took his tea and went up to the first floor , to the long landing window which looked over the village green . |
7 | Patrick nodded and went up to the front door . |
8 | With these words , Maisie snapped her mask up to her face and went up to the front door . |
9 | So I went up to the general manager Mr and he he sa told me certainly I can go . |
10 | Stairs on the right went up to the sixteen guest rooms . |
11 | We went up to the second floor and knocked at Manisha 's flat . |
12 | Blake then went up to the second floor of the block and along to the main window . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Meg went up to the familiar ward hoping against hope to find Carolyn back in her bed again . |
15 | He went up to the two detectives and coughed delicately . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | We all went up to the top floor , and entered the room where Mason had been attacked . |
21 | He went up to the next floor , where uniformed footmen and maids were dispensing coffee and cakes , biscuits and ices . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Mind , she did n't go out this afternoon cos they went , some of them went up to the British Legion Club this afternoon . |
24 | Odd , that , Mike thought as he went up to the third floor in the rattling old lift . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 ? ’ |
27 | They walked to the lift and went up to the fourth floor . |
28 | Twenty-six out of 40 of the ‘ torturers ’ went up to the 450-volt level . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | What in it ? , well when we went up onto the Roman battlement ? |