Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] go up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had for some reason gone up to M. Dupont 's room and was about to knock , but before doing so , as is my custom , I paused for a second to listen at the door . |
| 2 | Until try small shabby door on landing : which opens up on to flight of filthy stairs going up into cobwebbed , dust-laden attic smelling of undiscovered murders , with tiny dormer window , size of large paperback . |
| 3 | According to the General Household Survey , the proportion of one-person households went up from 17 per cent in 1971 to 26 per cent in 1988 , while that of households with six or more people fell from 6 to 2 per cent . |
| 4 | A buzz of wordless terror went up from the men around him as they craned over his shoulder to look . |
| 5 | And , excluding oil and other erratic items , the underlying deficit with non-EC countries went up to £711m in April . |
| 6 | Between 1979 and 1987 the number of inpatients treated in English hospitals went up by a quarter and day cases by almost 60 per cent . |
| 7 | The spread of readily available and simple means of contraception has meant that the wife is less likely to spend much of her life in the bearing and rearing of children and is more likely to seek employment outside the home , thereby developing a source of income and interests outside her traditionally defined role : ‘ … in Britain the proportion of all wives in paid work went up from 10 per cent in 1911 ( as it remained in 1931 ) to 26 per cent in 1951 and 42 per cent in 1971 ’ ( Young and Willmott , 1975 , p. 101 ) . |
| 8 | The cost of bread , rice , flour and meat went up by 300 per cent , as did the prices of children 's clothing ; the cost of milk , eggs , cheese , sugar and tea , and adult clothing , went up by 200 per cent ; fares on public transport went up by between 70 and 140 per cent . |
| 9 | Look at those flares going up over No. 6 Commando positions . ’ |
| 10 | We must consequently not expect Greek callers at Palestinian ports to go up to Jerusalem for the pleasure of observing Jewish festivals . |