Example sentences of "[noun sg] go up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late one night she forgets to turn off the gas after heating up some left-over mutton vindaloo , and a loud explosion rocks the mansion as Tracey 's beautiful designer kitchen goes up in smoke . |
| 2 | Counting the cost of a fire which has brought his business to a standstill and caused ten years of research to go up in smoke . |
| 3 | my rent gone up on allotment |
| 4 | So scum are now 13 points ahead , and our 14 match unbeaten run goes up in smoke . |
| 5 | At any rate , declarer went up with dummy 's ace to drop the queen and land his slam . |
| 6 | The result was all wrong … 6-2 on aggregate to Tranmere but there was a flicker of hope in the flames as United 's cup run went up in smoke … |
| 7 | Aaron Hicklin , in Mostar ( left ) , learns how a beautiful mountain region in Bosnia-Herzegovina is co-existing with war after generations of rural tranquillity Centuries of peace go up in smoke |
| 8 | The recession has hit the farming community as hard as anyone — and the last thing farmers want to see is their livelihood going up in smoke . |
| 9 | Her neck prickles , this must be her hair going up on end . |
| 10 | Mike 's joke goes up in smoke … |
| 11 | And as I as I told you before , we was on the main concourse , heard the glass smashed , we come down a stairwell on , come round the back , saw the two , or saw two persons in the back garden , asked them what they were doing buy which time the the curtain went up in smoke , well up in flames . |
| 12 | As a result loading went up in volume by four times within a month . |
| 13 | SCRAM found itself caught in the middle between those who felt nonviolent protest was the only way and those who really wanted to see the whole place go up in smoke . |
| 14 | Wicket-keeper Fothergill did well to hang on to the ball low to his right , especially as the whole team went up in jubilation before the ball had reached his gloves . |
| 15 | Anyway , the water goes up under pressure into the tanks in the roof and feeds down again to the washrooms by gravity . ’ |
| 16 | When a person goes up in smoke |
| 17 | to stop the water going up into motor . |
| 18 | The incendiary charges Manolo 's experts had set up earlier in the day went up on schedule . |
| 19 | She looked wistfully up the companionway to the square of blue sky , but fought the urge to go up on deck , scared he might ask her to do something that would reveal her ignorance . |
| 20 | The blue girders of the Stargrace building went up after Environment Minister Mr Colin Moynihan launched the £6m. office complex in June , 1990 . |
| 21 | James himself , watching from the shore with the rest of his ‘ invasion committee ’ , could not restrain his admiration as he watched his last hope of regaining his throne go up in smoke . |
| 22 | Paris alerted Croydon , where both planes were due to land and in due course a pilot went up from Croyden to guide him down . |
| 23 | His voice went up in pitch . |
| 24 | It would be one thing if all pork went up in price , but if European producers still use old methods , they will undercut farmers here . |
| 25 | It 's very interesting that the only way in which one tory hand went up in support in community services committee for any of the things we had before us and I can only worry , was only because the . |
| 26 | A companion volume , Blades Trivia ( surely the club 's entire history ? ) , asks how Leeds United 's hopes of a win went up in smoke when Steve Cammack scored a late equaliser on April Fools ' Day 1975 . |
| 27 | Three hundred tons of freshly harvested hay and straw went up in smoke . |
| 28 | His first painting goes up for auction on Friday . |
| 29 | Anyway back to main point , so up to retirement quite straightforward , no problem at all and this is why he could have gone on for donkey years without a return of income , his salary goes up of course , it 's picked up in the tax tables , his personal allowances do n't change so they could swan along there for so many years without even looking at his affairs , but then see what happens in the very next tax year , when he has n't had a return and may not get a return for a couple of years . |
| 30 | FRINGE BENEFITS Colin Ward watches the allotment bonfire going up in smoke |