Example sentences of "go up in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going up in world of climbing ropes A Highland rope company is climbing to dizzy heights of success with its innovative product , the Smart Rope , which has rocked the international climbing world . |
| 2 | Jones , still only 30 , already had a reputation as an experienced seaman and he began his new career by capturing several British ships in the Irish Sea , but his announcement that he intended to raid Whitehaven in Cumberland and burn the vessels moored there nearly provoked a mutiny , for his crew , already disgruntled that so many ships had been sunk instead of seized , saw their prospect of prize money once again going up in smoke . |
| 3 | FRINGE BENEFITS Colin Ward watches the allotment bonfire going up in smoke |
| 4 | ‘ It is terribly distressing to watch hundreds of years of history going up in smoke , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Going up in smoke … |
| 6 | Nor did any intuition , any extra sense , alert him to the fact that part of the case he was quietly and imperceptibly building up inside him was going up in smoke . |
| 7 | The recession has hit the farming community as hard as anyone — and the last thing farmers want to see is their livelihood going up in smoke . |
| 8 | they pay , they pay , they are paying me a little bit , I think it ought to go up in price a bit though myself |
| 9 | What I actually said was that the price that we would have to charge for burying the dead had to go up in order to ensure that in of the circumstances our standards could remain impeccable . |
| 10 | This causes onlookers to despair , and TV schedules to go up in smoke , which ca n't please Philip Morris , the sponsor . |
| 11 | Such deliberation , while the youth of Britain were liable to go up in smoke , outraged many . |
| 12 | Counting the cost of a fire which has brought his business to a standstill and caused ten years of research to go up in smoke . |
| 13 | Second-class citizen ! goes up in neon lights when those who use the pronunciation of the streets and not of the written word open their mouths . |
| 14 | When a person goes up in smoke |
| 15 | Mike 's joke goes up in smoke … |
| 16 | Or the way Marianne practically goes up in smoke when she sees you together . ’ |
| 17 | So scum are now 13 points ahead , and our 14 match unbeaten run goes up in smoke . |
| 18 | Late one night she forgets to turn off the gas after heating up some left-over mutton vindaloo , and a loud explosion rocks the mansion as Tracey 's beautiful designer kitchen goes up in smoke . |
| 19 | They are the result of a survey in the wake of statistics which revealed that a quarter of a billion pounds goes up in smoke each year as part of Belfast 's annual energy bill . |
| 20 | It 's very interesting that the only way in which one tory hand went up in support in community services committee for any of the things we had before us and I can only worry , was only because the . |
| 21 | After the prayers they went up in turn and kissed Moran and then Rose who returned their kisses warmly , and they slipped away to their rooms . |
| 22 | It would be one thing if all pork went up in price , but if European producers still use old methods , they will undercut farmers here . |
| 23 | As a result loading went up in volume by four times within a month . |
| 24 | His voice went up in pitch . |
| 25 | Wicket-keeper Fothergill did well to hang on to the ball low to his right , especially as the whole team went up in jubilation before the ball had reached his gloves . |
| 26 | A companion volume , Blades Trivia ( surely the club 's entire history ? ) , asks how Leeds United 's hopes of a win went up in smoke when Steve Cammack scored a late equaliser on April Fools ' Day 1975 . |
| 27 | Hopes of renewed love and peace soon went up in smoke . |
| 28 | And as I as I told you before , we was on the main concourse , heard the glass smashed , we come down a stairwell on , come round the back , saw the two , or saw two persons in the back garden , asked them what they were doing buy which time the the curtain went up in smoke , well up in flames . |
| 29 | Three hundred tons of freshly harvested hay and straw went up in smoke . |
| 30 | The result was all wrong … 6-2 on aggregate to Tranmere but there was a flicker of hope in the flames as United 's cup run went up in smoke … |