Example sentences of "[vb past] go up to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Davis agreed to go up to 200 guineas , and in the event secured the unseen yearling for a mere 160 guineas . |
| 2 | Afterwards , she ventured to go up to him and say that she was my sister : to which he replied kindly — ; ‘ I can see that you are ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I knew she 'd gone up to Jack 's — she always does now if he 's alone , makes no secret of it . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd gone up to Ethel 's sister to cheer her up because she was looking so miserable . |
| 5 | No , he 'd gone up to the traffic lights and this cyclist sort of like cycled up , jumped off his bike and wheeled it round the corner so he |
| 6 | ‘ I liked the coffee tonight , ’ he said , not allowing that it was the same instant coffee as ever , and to deserve the goodness she determined to go up to Soho tomorrow for some beautiful fresh espresso beans . |
| 7 | No , cos one of them kept going up to London for the we week and then went back home at the weekends and he had this lovely house ! |
| 8 | And what I was gon na say Alan was , perhaps like Mr you know we had one of the ones sitting here that did go up to two services . |
| 9 | But he did go up to my mother and say , like , you know . |
| 10 | Either he had to go up to the Broken Hill Ironworks at Newcastle or she had to go down to Canberra to see some official about tariffs or quotas or immigration levels . |
| 11 | ‘ I had to go up to Clapton yesterday and haggle with Antinou for hours over that bloody Egyptian cotton . |
| 12 | When we were married , Jane was still an undergraduate at Westfield College in London , so she had to go up to London during the week . |
| 13 | In the end I had to go up to him and bring him back to the fire . |
| 14 | I usually get one , but I had to go up to Hertford this afternoon . |
| 15 | Had to go up to a hundred . |
| 16 | feet of the cow was not in the original photograph so I had to go up to a a farm and ask for straw to hide the |
| 17 | Dorothy had to go up to Scotland . |
| 18 | On hearing that Harry wished to go up to Melton Mowbray for the day , he offered to drive him in the Bentley . |
| 19 | But when the two scholars had gone up to ( Oxford , ‘ I began to be near the top of the form … but still everything at school was an aimless task performed to the letter only . |
| 20 | He took his pulse again to calm himself ( it had gone up to sixty-five ) and then began to concentrate hard on gathering up the bits of himself . |
| 21 | My weight had gone up to eight stone so at least I was looking relatively human . |
| 22 | The cost of a similar outing to Waringstown in 1902 had gone up to over £10-0-0 . |
| 23 | It filled a weekend when I was alone ; my brother Donald , who lived with me , had gone up to London to hear the celebrated violinist Kreisler . |
| 24 | In 1981 they audited 708 of the Times top 1,000 ; by 1991 this had gone up to 815 . |
| 25 | Mrs Bennett would have a fit if she knew Celia had gone up to Beckwith 's Folly , but it was n't the first time lately that she had been overwhelmed by the desire to escape , although it was the first time she had actually done anything about it . |
| 26 | Two years later , receipts had gone up to £3,500 , and after the audience survey , reached over £13,000 . |
| 27 | I thought he was following me and other hotel-guests to the shelter , but he was n't ; he had gone up to the roof ‘ to watch it all ’ . |
| 28 | The pre-filming budget had gone up to the then astronomical sixteen million dollars with Tyrone Power cast in the lead . |
| 29 | When the laundry maid had told her he had been married , she had gone up to the high moors and wept . |
| 30 | Afterwards , when the boys had gone up to bed , he told Josh that Mabel 's death was an act of retribution on the part of Almighty God . ’ |