Example sentences of "go [to-vb] up a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In sampling and inspecting water quality he is his own agent to decide where and when he goes to pick up a sample . |
| 2 | Benny was n't going to pass up an opportunity like this . |
| 3 | We 're going to set up a safari park in the back garden and cream teans on the lawn |
| 4 | Yes , we 're going to open up a resort on Mars . |
| 5 | I suspect that some of the drug barons who shell out money in support of what must be a pretty costly operation regard the academically-minded staff of the OHE as a bunch of eggheads , not to say ‘ wets ’ , who ought to be earning their keep by polishing up the industry 's somewhat tarnished image , and by encouraging sales , instead of spending their time and the companies ' profits on airy-fairy projects which are n't going to rustle up a pennyworth of business . |
| 6 | Erm , if you erm , maybe erase part of entries of the spreadsheet , you think , oh that 's going to free up a lot of memory , er , probably it wo n't . |
| 7 | Here , I can only think that he was saying , ‘ well , we do n't know that there 's the full authority of the city council in this view ’ , but erm I 'm not going to put up a defence , I just think that what we do is basically stress from yourself and from the chief officer that we do want this file known . |
| 8 | So we were going to make up a sport to see what he said , and in Spain they play a game called callots . |
| 9 | When I use a well-known television series as a starting point I start by talking to the children about what we 're going to do and the way we 're going to work : " We 're going to make up a play together . |
| 10 | I told Mum I was going to make up a quarrel with Shirnette . |
| 11 | I still kept the idea of being a lawyer through studying at night school , but , after a short while I decided I was really going to follow up a boxing career . |
| 12 | Blake went to pick up a handful of the substance , but the Doctor kicked it out of his grasp . |
| 13 | Williams had gone to take up a post at Howard University , where at the age of 28 , he began what would become a meteoric rise through the halls of academia , ( Associate Professor in 1946 , at the age of 35 ) . |
| 14 | Among the lexical units which go to make up a lexeme it is possible to distinguish some that are more basic , or central , and others that are less so . |
| 15 | The assumption remains that most women will continue to be satisfied with conventional provision and that the others , the ‘ more liberated ’ perhaps , can choose women 's studies options which now exist amidst the many other courses that go to make up a centre programme . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , it is possible to describe some of the typical components that go to make up a paradigm . |
| 17 | Figure 11.4 shows the complicated web of paper transfers that go to make up a transaction . |
| 18 | Many of the fragments which go to make up a scoria cone are individually big enough to be called ‘ blocks ’ or ‘ bombs ’ , according to the simple size classification . |
| 19 | Whatever the actual part you play in the business , or indeed , if you have to play all the parts that go to make up a funeral directing business , what is your attitude towards the job as a whole ? |