Example sentences of "go up [prep] the roof " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , erm , what happens then , Philip , if the client says to you , and it 's unlikely with Covermaster , but it 's the same principle if you 're talking of a savings plan or a pension , erm , I do n't like the idea of my money being invested in a managed fund , I 've been reading the financial press , and I 'm very interested and excited at the thought of the Japanese market going up through the roof . |
| 2 | It was a large wooden building , with no ceiling but cool crisscrossed rafters going up into the roof of wood and thatch . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , I had to go up into the roof and push down the ballcock when things went wrong . |
| 4 | He went up into the roof space and replaced the ball valve in the tank . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This was principally because he had taken up fire-watching duties there , and once or twice a week he would go up on the roof : he would have heard the sound of the aircraft , and the bursts of shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns , while all the time scrutinizing the " blacked out " city for the evidence of fires . |
| 7 | Let's go up on the roof . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'll go up on the roof , ’ John said . |
| 9 | ‘ I will go up to the roof , just remember though to tell them to send a ladder up there ’ said Ralph ‘ Take the child with you and hurry ’ And with that Carter ran as fast as he could through the dark air with the lady and child and before long he was out Ralph 's sight . |
| 10 | Well then Pam made me laugh cos the tiler he , she said he 's go up on the roof and he 's there for hours ! |
| 11 | Coleman had gone up on the roof the previous evening for one of his periodic checks of the antennae he had rigged for the listening post . |
| 12 | I thought he was following me and other hotel-guests to the shelter , but he was n't ; he had gone up to the roof ‘ to watch it all ’ . |