Example sentences of "[pron] go up [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I go up to London for half a day , get myself a job , and what do I find when I get home , eh ? |
| 2 | I went up to Cambridge in the Michaelmas term of 1921 . |
| 3 | No well we used to kill them with a stick but of course they used to lay the rabbits out at that time to see how many they caught cos that was a little bit of perks for the farm labourers they used to buy a rabbit for sixpence , then they go up to ninepence for a rabbit . |
| 4 | They went up to Scotland for your christening , 'eighty-three , it must have been no 'eighty-four , and when they came down south again , they came to my office and the wills were drawn up . ’ |
| 5 | There had been partisans hidden up there during the war , before you … but now only the shepherds used the long-abandoned houses and they went up on foot with their flocks . |
| 6 | In the pre-First World War days of two divisions , the top limit of transfer fees rose in the eight years from 1905 to 1913 from £1,000 to £2,500 , an increase of 150 per cent ; in the first eight years of three divisions ( 1920–28 ) they went up from £3,300 to £10,890 , an increase of roughly 230 per cent . |
| 7 | If you are a basic rate taxpayer , the amount you have to pay the Exchequer increases ( after the first £2,000 ) to £25 ; and if you are a higher rate taxpayer , it goes up to £40 for every £100 of your taxable income over £23,700 . |
| 8 | Keith was told that if he went up to bed at 9pm his father would read him a story while he had a quarter cup of cold drinking chocolate . |
| 9 | Once he went up to London with Trevor Proby and a crowbar to sort out that Des Lynam geezer . |
| 10 | In June he went up to Leeds for a three-week holiday : the air of the Yorkshire moors always did him good , and there were in the vicinity a doctor , an oculist and a radiologist to examine him periodically . |
| 11 | He went up to Cambridge in 1739 , to Pembroke College , as a sizar , was awarded a College scholarship in 1740 , a degree in 1743 , and a College Fellowship in 1745 . |
| 12 | He went up to Cambridge in 1826 and read Divinity ; while there he helped to found the Jesus Lane Sunday School . |
| 13 | Pogo 's family have invited us to go up to Scotland for some salmon fishing in February . |