Example sentences of "went up [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | They went up to the small room where Eve had lived for as long as she could remember . |
| 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 | Meg went up to the familiar ward hoping against hope to find Carolyn back in her bed again . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We all went up to the top floor , and entered the room where Mason had been attacked . |
| 14 | Mind , she did n't go out this afternoon cos they went , some of them went up to the British Legion Club this afternoon . |
| 15 | 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 ? ’ |
| 16 | Twenty-six out of 40 of the ‘ torturers ’ went up to the 450-volt level . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | What in it ? , well when we went up onto the Roman battlement ? |
| 19 | You could pick up a seat by knowing the right people , having gone to the right school or being thought to be worth a few thousand — almost the first question put to the prospective MP for Richmond , Sir George Harvie-Watt , when he went up before the local selection committee in 1937 was whether he would subscribe £700 to the local association . |
| 20 | But the cry that went up from the angry crowd , kept at bay by the military , was ‘ Ireland starves , England profits ! ’ |