Example sentences of "the [noun pl] go up [prep] [art] " 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 | This time , the lights went up on the slipper-fight . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At Harwell laboratories , they 've been monitoring air pollution and found the levels went up during the recent hot spell . |
| 6 | The pegs went up to the level of the bottom of the big dome . |
| 7 | At Morrison & Gibb , according to one survivor , the girls went up to a special room to learn all the types , and another former Morrison & Gibb " learner " remembered that " you were given a card with the lay of the case " and just had to get on with it , practising until you could pick up the type correctly . |
| 8 | The eyebrows go up in an arch that would make a complete circle if they carried on down , the lids over those eyes , likened to a cobra 's by Candice Bergen , narrow to a slit ; the gleaming white teeth flash through the pursed lips in what Vogue editor Diana Vreeland called a ‘ killer smile ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |