Example sentences of "go up the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 but we thought well we 're going up the grave and it 's not exactly out the way so we thought we 'd pop in .
2 I just make them see the colour going up the stem of a plant .
3 ‘ Hey , you boys , you going up The Greencroft ? ’
4 As long as you 're not going up the village
5 But so clearly visible and definitely new since the previous evening was a set of footprints , and looking around , a set of tracks , small hob-nailed boot tracks going up the staircase to the top and not coming down .
6 Oh they were just all that kind all those working kind of folks going up the glen .
7 I borrowed fifty P off her the oth , I was going up the school , and I only had four fifty for the I needed fifty P but I did n't have enough change like .
8 This evening seems to be going up the spout .
9 That 's why these computerized route-finders are going up the spout and taking the Glories towards Monument Hill .
10 I recall one man in the dale saying that he passed Sleetburn going up the fell to shepherd at 10 a.m. one day and heard Sam and Mother playing .
11 Yes , I must admit I had one or two people going up the loo and looking , I mean people stop and look when we first had all the stuff outside , you know , what you doing in there ?
12 ‘ Just as well , 'cos I ai n't going up the Palais . ’
13 This perfect little mountain may only be just over 2,000 feet in height , but going up the south face , in my state of physical unfitness , you really know that you have had a climb , and regret all the long , glass-happy evenings of days past .
14 There are tantalising descriptions of buildings now demolished — ‘ a wonderful high ceiling in the banking hall going up the equivalent of two storeys ’ — plus accounts of lunchtimes and commuting .
15 And instead of going up the jetty they went down and they were going to go right back to Rousay again .
16 I worked it out , from things Barbara Coleman told me , and I hitched a lift in a car going up the valley and walked the last mile or two .
17 He was going to put the medals back in his drawer and listen out of the window for Lee going up the field , listen for the sheep .
18 Going up the seminary hill to his Residence-I do n't think one would be justified in calling it a palace , gracious old house that it was — I felt giddy .
19 I 'm going up the garage anyway , alright ?
20 well I have er been in the garden , going up the garden
21 and he 's now going up the point of the house but he ca n't get no further .
22 For one thing , ICI now scrubs the wastes clean and makes money on the products and has also made good use of heat previously going up the chimney stacks .
23 It 's going up the chimney .
24 I 'm glad I , I 'm not going up the chimney !
25 Going up the shop .
26 He 's going up the ladder like a rocket , is n't he ?
27 Going up the ladder of powers corrects downward straggle , whereas going down corrects upward straggle .
28 And if they have n't got side side one tape two following I mean side two side , tape two side A following tape one side B , it puts them out a bit I should think are you going up the dog path ?
29 Because I shall be going up the town
30 I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made .
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