Example sentences of "[vb past] go up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Davis agreed to go up to 200 guineas , and in the event secured the unseen yearling for a mere 160 guineas .
2 And when we 'd gone along fifteen kilometres we 'd gone up by four point eight metres .
3 Shrimp kept going up for some water , trod on Andrew .
4 And what I was gon na say Alan was , perhaps like Mr you know we had one of the ones sitting here that did go up to two services .
5 After the tragedy a couple of men had gone up with concrete posts : he 'd watched them at it .
6 My weight had gone up to eight stone so at least I was looking relatively human .
7 Pountaine had gone up to Imperial a Communist Party member , but Notting Hill and the underground proved a stronger pull .
8 In 1989-90 that figure had gone up to 73 per cent .
9 If you look at one area — the Ayrshire and Arran health board-list of registered nursing homes , in July of this year ( 1988 ) there were 1093 beds , by October that had gone up to 1125 beds and their projection for next year is 1442 beds .
10 He took his pulse again to calm himself ( it had gone up to sixty-five ) and then began to concentrate hard on gathering up the bits of himself .
11 In 1981 they audited 708 of the Times top 1,000 ; by 1991 this had gone up to 815 .
12 But they had gone up to forty eight through acquisitions .
13 Spokesman Roger Donkin said that P&O had captured 33.2pc of the market for tourist vehicles — up 10pc — and the passenger share had gone up from 24 to 30pc .
14 This was mainly due to demobilization , but others may have been attracted to the region due to the fact that through the expropriation of landowners , the area held by peasants had gone up by 65 per cent since 1917 .
15 It had gone up in that time .
16 The price rises were also needed urgently to close the gap with wholesale prices for raw materials , which had been increased on Jan. 1 , and with the state purchase prices for agricultural produce , which had gone up in 1990 .
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