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

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1 I was just sticking one of the mouse heads back on when the birds went up into the evening air , kaw-calling and screaming , wheeling over the path through the dunes where it went near their nests .
2 So when on 16 August the letter drops on the door mat , the phone call comes from school , or the lists go up on the notice board , teenagers who have failed to get the right grades for that coveted university of polytechnic place may feel that the world has come to an end .
3 Current members of the Club go up for the weekend to climb ( this year it was too cold — even the lakes were frozen ) and after dinner retire to doss on whatever floor may be found .
4 The horse went up to the manger and stood there .
5 THE flag goes up on the 1993 Eastern Centre Motorcycle Grass Track racing season on Sunday at Brazils Farm , Woodham Ferrers , near Chelmsford .
6 Stairs on the right went up to the sixteen guest rooms .
7 Would the curtain go up on the world 's greatest surfing spectacle before I had to leave — or would it all go ahead without me ?
8 In fact , they were so bad in the one matinee performance in which they were tried out , that the original speeches were reinstated by the time the curtain went up at the Globe Theatre that evening .
9 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 .
10 This time the ascension does not bring down the curtain on the life of Jesus ; instead , the curtain goes up on the life of the Church .
11 This time , the lights went up on the slipper-fight .
12 For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world .
13 At Harwell laboratories , they 've been monitoring air pollution and found the levels went up during the recent hot spell .
14 That slaughter , when it comes , is reported in the baldest possible terms : ‘ … the people went up into the city , every man straight before him , and they took the city .
15 The pegs went up to the level of the bottom of the big dome .
16 The daughter went up to the body of her mother and initially started talking quietly to her , tears streaming down her face .
17 The man went up to the photographer .
18 So , I 'd got this house and two or three of us from the refuge went up to the old house and packed everything ready to move .
19 The attacker went up to the woman as she rode around an area of the south London Common known as the arena , blocking her path when she tried to leave and twice attempting to pull her from her horse .
20 From the pass go up onto the ridge leading to the summit of Crinkle Crags ( 0.75 miles ) .
21 He wants to be ready with something his own people have prepared , as soon as the alarm goes up from the Secretary of the Cabinet .
22 It 'll probably go up by another three , four pounds and then later on er when the cows goes up to the grass I 'll be making not quite double probably , but er quite a lot more than I do now up to maybe fourteen , fifteen pounds in a day .
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