Example sentences of "[noun] go up the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Meanwhile the main path route goes up the valley until sea reappears ( where these two routes merge ) .
2 I knew that I would get a lift on a boat going up the canal .
3 I worked it out , from things Barbara Coleman told me , and I hitched a lift in a car going up the valley and walked the last mile or two .
4 He said well I could n't see any of that did n't even see the club go up the tree .
5 Another time in the same club he turned to me and said , ‘ The fellow on my other side went up the Irrawaddy in 1943 and he 's been taking me back there with him .
6 There are tantalising descriptions of buildings now demolished — ‘ a wonderful high ceiling in the banking hall going up the equivalent of two storeys ’ — plus accounts of lunchtimes and commuting .
7 But so clearly visible and definitely new since the previous evening was a set of footprints , and looking around , a set of tracks , small hob-nailed boot tracks going up the staircase to the top and not coming down .
8 The civilian went up the ladder and retrieved the attaché case .
9 The hand closed over the receiver picked up vibration , and the cord to the microphone went up the wearer 's sleeve unobtrusively .
10 so he just kept going , so the pick-up jammed its anchors on , there was a Rover it was coming the other way , the Rover went up the verge
11 Notice how the grain goes up the body of Teddy , and his elbow nestles in the cushion
12 He was going to put the medals back in his drawer and listen out of the window for Lee going up the field , listen for the sheep .
13 I just make them see the colour going up the stem of a plant .
14 And the smoke goes up the chimney just the same
15 And the smoke goes up the chimney just the same .
16 And the smoke goes up the chimney just the same
17 Yes , I must admit I had one or two people going up the loo and looking , I mean people stop and look when we first had all the stuff outside , you know , what you doing in there ?
18 Gabriel went up the ladder two rungs at a time , and stood sweating behind his cloud .
19 I recall one man in the dale saying that he passed Sleetburn going up the fell to shepherd at 10 a.m. one day and heard Sam and Mother playing .
20 did the man go up the school ? , he never did he ?
21 Say 12345 , first making your voice go up the scale ( you are not singing , just using your speaking voice ) , then going down the scale .
22 But for 15 minutes before the curtains went up the audience must have thought that the obnoxious Sheriff of Nottigham was sitting immediately behind me …
23 Woman and the man went up the garden
24 The spider went up the spout is me , down come the rain and out come the sun , all the sun came out in the rain , Insy Winsy spider climbed up again
25 As a result , it looks as though any rethink of this weekend goes up the spout in favour of the ghastliness of paper for the beastly bureaucrats .
26 Setting it on the saloon table , and inhaling the delicious combination of smells , Polly went up the companionway ladder to call Nathan .
27 Oh they were just all that kind all those working kind of folks going up the glen .
28 I tell you when he 's coming but then I 'd have the cooker going up the Swannee Well , well no .
29 Well first of all I 'd go down Street and up Street West and up to the top of Street and there was some puddling furnaces , the new side iron works and I 'd watch those men they 'd produce wrought iron and during the process the metal boils up and I 'd have to get a big rubbling bar and rubble they 'd call rubble into a ball , there 's a little wagon put underneath the put under the wagon and off he goes to the steam hammer , now I used to be fascinated with this and Saturday after Saturday I used to go up there and watch one of the heats and as soon as they 'd finished doing they used to go into the Forge and Hammer for a drink , I mean it was such hard work so they 'd do a heat go up the Forge and Iron and come back and then do another heat when I 'd
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