Example sentences of "go up [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not unusual for blood pressure to go up as a result of stress , so if you have a high reading at some point , your doctor or midwife might suggest you rest and try to relax for a while before they check it again . |
| 2 | He goes up to a kiosk in Wenceslas Square and asks for a copy of Rude Pravo ( Red Truth ) , the Party newspaper . |
| 3 | This goes up to a resolution of 1,024 by 768 in non-interlaced mode , at a flicker-free 72Hz vertical scan rate . |
| 4 | If you get through that you 've got to give the balloon a good hard squirt to make it burn , and if you do make it burn it goes up with a hell of a whoomph and you 've still got to get away . ’ |
| 5 | So we sort of switched all around now , so she eats with us at half past six stroke seven , goes up for a bath at seven thirty , eight o'clock and she 's in bed by nine , then she , she 's usually asleep by half past ten , but eh , it seems to have cured the problem we had with her , wanting , wanting me all the time , after she 's gone to bed . |
| 6 | Clap your hands and insist that natural gas goes up in a puff of noxious air . |
| 7 | He went up as a commoner to Wadham College , Oxford , in 1858 , and took fourth-class honours in law and modern history in 1862 . |
| 8 | In July 1914 air travel was still a novelty to many people and during an outing by employees of an Accrington firm of billiard table makers to Blackpool , a deaf employee named Jack Hargreaves became possibly the first deaf man ever to go up in an aeroplane when he went up as a passenger in a two-seater Fokkers biplane piloted by a Mr. H. Blackburn . |
| 9 | Johnson told Mrs Thrale , ‘ We went up into a dining-room about as large as your blue room , where we had something given us to eat , and tea and coffee . ’ |
| 10 | Their names went up on a list on the school board as being entitled to free lunches . |
| 11 | that 's just they 're the people I 'm going to interview okay then you 've got example yesterday at approximately nine twenty Bacon 's technical college at went up in a barrage of smoke taking one life which is believed to be that of the caretaker who was having a last minute check before leaving the building in the evening . |
| 12 | The bucket went up in a geyser of flame , yellow and blue and white . |
| 13 | There was this scene right at the end where the woman lights a cigarette after she 's left the gas on the cooker on and everything goes up in an explosion ; and then in the very next advert there was a car driving through a field , and the whole field went up in a sheet of flame . |
| 14 | The place went up in a matter of minutes . |
| 15 | Oh well we 're fairly heavily committed at the moment but erm well I suppose we could go up to a budget of about forty pounds a month . |
| 16 | You can go up to a woman on a street corner and start yelling at her and ten minutes later she 's back at your place doing God knows what . |
| 17 | One can hardly go up to an admiral of the fleet and ask him what he was doing on the night of Friday the thirteenth . |
| 18 | Fines for litter louts will go up from a maximum of £400 to £1,000 . |
| 19 | And one interesting thing is that as we integrate that system as we double the number of users our requirements the loading on our system may go up by a factor of four . |
| 20 | ‘ We should have a rehearsal — you know , go up for a couple of days ahead of everyone else so we wo n't look like eejits . ’ |