Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] up in the " in BNC.

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1 They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea .
2 They hammed it up in the spectacular 17th century building unaware that smoke from the candles was blacking up the beautiful hand-painted ceiling .
3 They rang one up in the morning to say why are n't you here ?
4 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 . ’
5 ‘ But they carried us up in the air !
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