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

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1 I knew that I would get a lift on a boat going up the canal .
2 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 .
3 So therefore you got motorbikes going up the ramps , which were n't designed for that .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 I just make them see the colour going up the stem of a plant .
8 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 ?
9 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 .
10 Oh they were just all that kind all those working kind of folks going up the glen .
11 I tell you when he 's coming but then I 'd have the cooker going up the Swannee Well , well no .
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