Example sentences of "went up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's very useful , because then it 's very easy when you write , ‘ He went up past the cinema and on to the church , and then he met so-and-so coming out of her house . ’ |
| 2 | A murmur of assent went up as the audience shifted and rustled again , and Gerrard turned back to Briant . |
| 3 | ‘ I went up towards the belvedere to take some pictures , that 's all . |
| 4 | I saw him take a look at the boat-house first , then , when I suppose he saw you were n't home , he went up towards the house , and after a bit he came back with a bag , you know , like Santa Claus , slung over his shoulder . |
| 5 | The guard who had brought them went up beside the chair , knelt and spoke quietly to Bruce in a language Corbett could not understand and guessed that it was probably Gaelic , a language totally alien to him . |
| 6 | I think their suggestion was that they had to go via Norwood Gardens because they then turned right at the in and went up into the middle of and it was to get them on to that line that they had to go through . |
| 7 | I was just sticking one of the mouse heads back on when the birds went up into the evening air , kaw-calling and screaming , wheeling over the path through the dunes where it went near their nests . |
| 8 | He went up into the roof space and replaced the ball valve in the tank . |
| 9 | When I got there , the organ was playing the 100th psalm , and , when it was done , Mr Coleridge rose and gave out his text , ‘ And he went up into the mountain to pray , HIMSELF ALONE . |
| 10 | We went up into the Forestry Commission woods the other side of the hills . " |
| 11 | That slaughter , when it comes , is reported in the baldest possible terms : ‘ … the people went up into the city , every man straight before him , and they took the city . |
| 12 | ‘ They damn near went up with the balloon , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Until 1978 that is , when we had the first and last National Conference in this country and after spending about three days cooking rice and feeling very exhausted , I went up on the platform to speak on behalf of Chi lean women and I was made to shut up . |
| 14 | In The Ladybird New Testament the story is similarly altered to include a dream rather than a vision : One day Peter went up on the roof of the house where he was staying in Joppa to pray . |
| 15 | I mean , I 'd had the feeling before , a bit , the first couple of times I went up on the End , it was that much closer to the spindle . |
| 16 | He went up on the left of me , sliced back in front of my car and dived at the inside of Niki from way too far back … |
| 17 | This time , the lights went up on the slipper-fight . |
| 18 | In fact , they were so bad in the one matinee performance in which they were tried out , that the original speeches were reinstated by the time the curtain went up at the Globe Theatre that evening . |
| 19 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 20 | Went up at the doctor 's |
| 21 | ‘ So you and he went up to the villa ? |
| 22 | The pegs went up to the level of the bottom of the big dome . |
| 23 | He set the car alarm , and went up to the door . |
| 24 | Alice went up to the door and knocked , but there was a lot of noise inside and nobody answered . |
| 25 | I went up to the door , meaning to look in on her before going , but there seemed to be an argument going on and I decided not to interrupt . ’ |
| 26 | The man went up to the photographer . |
| 27 | Rab went up to the bar . |
| 28 | She went up to the bar . |
| 29 | So I went up to the bar , back to the party , and still could n't find her . ’ |
| 30 | While he went up to the bar to order , Ellie settled back in her seat , and , with a rather sad light in her eyes , watched him . |