Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] go up [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | Until a few years ago it was possible to stand on the incline , particularly in summer , without becoming the least aware that here once stood one of the most complex and sophisticated pieces of apparatus ever constructed on English canals , and the idea of two narrow boats going up while another pair came down would have been quite beyond belief . |
2 | A great cheer went up as he started hitting the ball around , the merest tap sending it miles across a field as brown as Raimundo 's goatskin apron . |
3 | Great cheers went up when a hit was scored , or when the police dragged someone out on the opposite side . |
4 | In Bangladesh , for instance , the birth rate in one village went up after the pill was introduced : because it both interfered with lactation ( 90 per cent of the users were lactating mothers — and lactation is known to help prevent ovulation ) , and was abandoned by 80 per cent of the women because of side effects . |
5 | A passage was cleared through the crowd like magic , and although they were all kindly men , a great shout of irrepressible laughter went up as I fled . |
6 | It 's five minutes to showtime and a huge roar goes up as Ice-T announces the acts . |