Example sentences of "[noun] went up [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The horse went up to the manger and stood there .
2 Meredith went up to the rehearsal room in a less tetchy state of mind .
3 Howls of laughter went up from the other boys .
4 Bernie went up to the singer after the show and said , we thought you were called The Teenage Rebels , yet you 're not teenagers and you 're certainly not rebellious .
5 In fact , they were so bad in the one matinee performance in which they were tried out , that the original speeches were reinstated by the time the curtain went up at the Globe Theatre that evening .
6 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 .
7 Rab went up to the bar .
8 Suddenly a cry went up along the line .
9 Stairs on the right went up to the sixteen guest rooms .
10 The place went up in a matter of minutes .
11 we had our red and white rosettes and when our , I was sitting watching the match and when they scored the goal my slippers went up in the air .
12 Mr Catlett was deputized to ‘ keep an eye on everything ’ while Perkins went up to the vicarage to make his 'phone call .
13 This time , the lights went up on the slipper-fight .
14 For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world .
15 Back in Cardiff , my name went up on the Honours Board and my father , in the last year before his retirement , quietly enjoyed the thought that I was to spend at least part of my life in the county in which his father had been born .
16 Oliver went up to the master , with his bowl in his hand .
17 Meg went up to the familiar ward hoping against hope to find Carolyn back in her bed again .
18 Adam stared round , and his head went up like a frightened horse 's .
19 When it came to my turn to be recorded , Gillian went up to the promenade with Stuart .
20 Right , I 've just got a , two or three minutes , I 've just wan na get something quickly done before we , we close and I 'm not gon na look up all the references , because your get them for next week any way in , in the house group , but , now , now in a sense it 's difficult to understand to take all this in after all his God and were people , how do we understand Jesus , it 's , it 's difficult , however knowing something about them does help us to understand something important , it helps us to understand what happened when Jesus ascended , when he went back to heaven , you see when Jesus arose from the earth the , the disciples who watch him it says there in Acts chapter one , they saw him go up in to the heaven , up into you know in a cloud , have you ever thought what that really means what on earth was it , they saw him go up in a cloud , can you image a sort of great clouds coming and dropping down over the mountain top there and was suddenly whisking Jesus up and then watching Jesus going up in this cloud into the sky , I do n't really think it was quite like that , have you ever wonder why it was that Jesus went up in a cloud , you see what was he doing , he was n't beginning a journey to some far off place in the universe , some distant corner where God the father was , he was n't doing that at all , what do you think a cloud can you , give any suggestions of what a cloud might represent because very often a lot of some of the language in the bible is picture language and it , it , it speaks as something else , what do , what do you think a cloud , does any body have suggestions of what a cloud might speak to us about , or speak to us of , sorry , power yeah , any thing else
21 The two rabbits went up to the board at a hopping run and crouched in a patch of nettles on the far side , wrinkling their noses at the smell of a dead cigarette-end somewhere in the grass .
22 Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right .
23 A buzz of wordless terror went up from the men around him as they craned over his shoulder to look .
24 At Harwell laboratories , they 've been monitoring air pollution and found the levels went up during the recent hot spell .
25 A hell of a roar went up in the canteen at lunch break when one of the shop stewards said that Clasper would go on fighting on behalf of the workers until every bloody one of them had lost their jobs .
26 A roar went up from the customers , some of them calling out : ‘ Hooray for Ernie ! ’ and others yelling : ‘ Down with the Bolshies ! ’
27 A roar went up from the crowd .
28 The pegs went up to the level of the bottom of the big dome .
29 That slaughter , when it comes , is reported in the baldest possible terms : ‘ … the people went up into the city , every man straight before him , and they took the city .
30 At the 13th , Woosnam was heckled and a cheer went up from a few spectators as he put his drive into the creek .
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