Example sentences of "went up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Harwell laboratories , they 've been monitoring air pollution and found the levels went up during the recent hot spell . |
| 2 | The curtain went up on the second act to reveal the face from this image lying on the ground where it was walked over and trampled on by the cast . |
| 3 | ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’ |
| 4 | In the end , we took a taxi and all went up to the mountainous part — a good way into the interior — to a little village called something like Kaloxilos , where Maria 's grandmother lived and had a garden . |
| 5 | I am sure she went up to the poor man 's room , picked up the thread lying there , pulled out the slow fuse , lit it with a tinder and then came back down here . ’ |
| 6 | They went up to the small room where Eve had lived for as long as she could remember . |
| 7 | Patrick took his tea and went up to the first floor , to the long landing window which looked over the village green . |
| 8 | Patrick nodded and went up to the front door . |
| 9 | With these words , Maisie snapped her mask up to her face and went up to the front door . |
| 10 | So I went up to the general manager Mr and he he sa told me certainly I can go . |
| 11 | Stairs on the right went up to the sixteen guest rooms . |
| 12 | We went up to the second floor and knocked at Manisha 's flat . |
| 13 | Blake then went up to the second floor of the block and along to the main window . |
| 14 | Alice went up to the second floor in the lift , let herself into the flat and read , for the ninth or tenth time , the letter she had left for Mike . |
| 15 | Meg went up to the familiar ward hoping against hope to find Carolyn back in her bed again . |
| 16 | He went up to the two detectives and coughed delicately . |
| 17 | I went up to the 1970 Open at St Andrews on spec with a few players in mind but no firm bag . |
| 18 | I went up to the tall , dark girl . |
| 19 | Now , we very rarely went up to the great city and , when we did , Benjamin kept a close eye and a tight rein on me . |
| 20 | After acclamations before the Lateran Palace , like those that had already taken place in front of St Peter 's , the new pope went up to the principal part of the palace , called the Leonine presbyterium , and later celebrated with a banquet . |
| 21 | We went up to the top floor and were told to sleep in a room full of grey metal bunks and steel lockers , and to sleep fully clothed to avoid the lice . |
| 22 | Several times in the next few months I went up to the top floor again , where I could look out of the high windows in the roof to see the surrounding countryside and be alone with my thoughts . |
| 23 | We all went up to the top floor , and entered the room where Mason had been attacked . |
| 24 | You could you could n't feel it if you 're standing on the middle of the floor but when you went up to the grating with your chest on the grating you could feel the tower swinging away back from you I do n't know what er distance probably maybe twelve inches maybe more I do n't know . |
| 25 | He went up to the next floor , where uniformed footmen and maids were dispensing coffee and cakes , biscuits and ices . |
| 26 | He began to recite a litany of his own successes to himself as he passed down the quiet , thickly carpeted corridors to the executive lift that went up to the eighteenth floor : a new apartment in the smart suburb of Beauséjour ; a smaller apartment in Montparnasse , with a most accommodating young mistress ; two cars , one the largest and latest registration Citroën Familiale ; a generous expense account , which was not queried too closely — he hoped was not queried too closely . |
| 27 | Mind , she did n't go out this afternoon cos they went , some of them went up to the British Legion Club this afternoon . |
| 28 | Odd , that , Mike thought as he went up to the third floor in the rattling old lift . |
| 29 | She wanted to check on some of her cultures before they left the building , so they went up to the third floor and along a corridor lined with rooms numbered for experimentation and behavioural study . |
| 30 | Overcome by the regalia worn by this very tall man , John went up to the august personage , slipped a small hand into one of his , and asked ‘ are you the king ? ’ |