Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] up in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Portadown piled them up in the first half .
2 They were kicked senseless and then handed over to the Military Police who locked them up in the roofless regimental prison before they were handed over to the Colonel of the Regiment for interrogation and questioning .
3 I shall remember him for his magnificent work in the West Riding through many years , and for his naughty and teasing sense of humour which so often cheered us up in the dismal surroundings of the Hemsworth Division and places like that , and which one realised hid a most sensitive and affectionate personality .
4 They hammed it up in the spectacular 17th century building unaware that smoke from the candles was blacking up the beautiful hand-painted ceiling .
5 I looked them up in the big dictionary my father had bought for me by mail order at the beginning of the year .
6 Any way , Aunt Bessie brought her up in the little house built by her husband and brother-in-law which was near to South Stainmore .
7 Well he brought it up in the first place .
8 I want to know whether we 're going to be blushing when they put him up in the Foreign Ministry at a press conference and he spills . ’
9 Perhaps he just picked it up in the right place .
10 Wexford held it up in the bright shaft of sunlight .
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