Example sentences of "went up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The take-off flare went up at 0440 hours and Colonel Seawell was the first away as Group Commander . |
| 2 | In nineteen seventy three it went up to fifteen dollars a barrel and in nineteen seventy nine it went up to thirty dollars a barrel . |
| 3 | It went from thirty two and sixpence to er thirty seven and sixpence and then it went up to two guineas , two quid a week . |
| 4 | The rent went up to thirty pounds a week . |
| 5 | In nineteen seventy three it went up to fifteen dollars a barrel and in nineteen seventy nine it went up to thirty dollars a barrel . |
| 6 | After all , it did not stretch to the floor but started at three feet six and went up to seven feet . |
| 7 | Garry Thompson , the Coventry City footballer , told how he was made to take stock of his colour slightly earlier , just after beginning secondary school in Birmingham : ‘ I went up to some guys and asked to play football and they just shut me out . |
| 8 | Sea level went up by 24 metres in less than 1,000 years , a rate of more than 24mm per year . |
| 9 | Compared with the compensation payments introduced during the first stage of price liberalization , these went up from 750 lei to 2,100 lei per month for workers , and from 400 lei to 1,470 lei for pensioners , while there were also increases in child benefits , maternity benefits and student grants . |
| 10 | The news media learned of the arrests next morning and over a number of days outraged protests went up from loyalist spokesmen , including leaders of loyalist political parties and Andrew Beattie 's colleagues on the Constitutional Stoppage Central Co-ordinating Committee . |
| 11 | House sales over the six months went up from 357 units for the previous comparable period to 409 . |
| 12 | Between 1862 and 1870 the size of the reserve went up from 210,000 men to 553,000 . |
| 13 | A cheer went up from 1,000 throats , greeting the floating city as it towered above Clydebank Town Hall . |
| 14 | The eight million square feet in the World Financial Centre went up in four years and defied all predictions . |
| 15 | A niece of the former Labour minister Douglas Jay and first cousin of Peter Jay , the former British ambassador in Washington who is now the BBC 's economics editor , her ratings went up in certain quarters when she once said of Mrs Thatcher : ‘ She is not the sort of person one would invite to dinner . ’ |
| 16 | A German Zeppelin had flown over the Scottish coast at Leith , and dropped a bomb which by pure luck hit a bonded warehouse full of whisky , which went up in large flames , thus lighting up the darkened city . |