Example sentences of "up [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 2 | The Waterline , then , returns to its origins , as the case study which is Billy 's life painfully dredges up the first scenes of his disorder . |
| 3 | He turned up the first day of the term , picked up his grant , bought a guitar with it and then disappeared ‘ till the start of the next term and that term 's grant cheque . |
| 4 | When Edward Shevardnadze resigned as foreign minister , he at once set up the first privately financed think-tank in the Soviet Union , the Foreign Policy Association . |
| 5 | Being obliged to earn a living without intermission , Jane had no time to pick and choose , but snapped up the first offer — on a woman 's magazine . |
| 6 | Sitting on the edge of the bed , Tug balanced the tray on his knees and began to cut up the first beefburger . |
| 7 | He set up the first try with a fine break after 11 minutes , for Lloyd to round off the move with an impudent dummy . |
| 8 | They set up the first important theatre in Prague in the Clementinum with the Czech language as its medium . |
| 9 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 10 | Although menstrual cycles vary quite considerably in length from person to person , the average length is about 28 days with the ‘ period ’ taking up the first five or six of these . |
| 11 | We had been talking on the National Consumer Council a bit about the lack of accountability in broadcasting , and I had also , as part of my Advisory Council work , directed and written up the first major study about adults , educational experience and needs — two and a half thousand interviews all over England and Wales . |
| 12 | Denis , he supposed , keeping up the first son tradition . |
| 13 | Brunel was a successful naval architect , and an outstanding builder of bridges and tunnels , to say nothing of his three great steamships , the Great Western , which sailed out of the Bristol Channel to open up the first regular passenger service between Europe and America ; the Great Britain ( see Bristol ) ; and the Great Eastern , which began its maiden voyage a few days before Brunel 's death in 1859 , and remained the largest ship afloat for nearly half a century . |
| 14 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 15 | It was Johnny who set up the first weekly pools and bingo competitions at the Palace and it is from those humble beginnings that the massively valuable present-day lottery has grown . |
| 16 | The bus failed to get up the first steep hill it came to . |
| 17 | THE UNITED Nations is planning to set up the first international research centre for applying genetic engineering and biotechnology to crops . |
| 18 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 19 | The poster has been displayed on Underground stations throughout London as part of the ‘ Art on the Underground ’ series , and on hand to help Adrian put up the first poster , naturally at The Oval station , was veteran commentator and director of The Cricketer , Brian Johnston ( both pictured left ) . |
| 20 | When the selected pile alone remained , he switched on a powerful reading spotlamp above the table , took a jeweller 's loupe from his pocket , a pair of tweezers in his right hand , and held up the first stone to the light . |
| 21 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |
| 22 | Palmer won the man-of-the-match award after a superb performance , setting up the first two goals and scoring the third . |
| 23 | Instead of wasting time hawking his book around the publishing houses , he simply printed up the first three chapters , complete with his own photos and illustrations , and took them out on the streets . |
| 24 | That should shake the audience to attention , she thought , as she picked up the first book . |
| 25 | The counsellor should not therefore take up the first issue raised by the counsellees which seems satisfactorily to explain their situation . |
| 26 | Missy had heard their engines long before a human ear could pick up the first faint sound and had come to tell her . |
| 27 | That 's how the test pilot summed up the first post-restoration flight in Dick Hansen 's Kittyhawk I. Once displayed on top of a filling station , the P-40 is now arguably the best there is . |
| 28 | Hannon had picked up the first two races as well after starting the day with no confidence at all . |
| 29 | A feeling of warm-up is definitely in the air ; a flexing of muscles that have not been stretched in public for some time makes up the first few minutes of Faust 's extraordinary set … and then all hell breaks loose ! |
| 30 | With a solo exhibition of the works of Klaus Suss from Chemnitz ( until 5 May ) , Gunar Barthel continues its introduction to the artists who set up the first collective gallery of the GDR ( called ‘ Clara Mosch ’ using the initial letters of the names of its founder members ) . |