Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up [prep] the first " in BNC.
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1 | When you 've got your bandage in your pack , I 've explained to you before , you open it up in the first aid kit it 's sterile , yeah , you open it up by the |
2 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
3 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
4 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
5 | That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’ |
6 | The young clerk , Buckingham , now dressed more festively , the funerals being over , took them up to the first floor , then up more stairs to the second storey of the house . |
7 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
8 | Well he brought it up in the first place . |
9 | It was difficult to abandon the RPF precisely because de Gaulle had so compromised himself and his unique prestige by setting it up in the first place , by fighting elections , and by being a politician " like the others " . |
10 | They moved on , following it up to the first of the ruined buildings . |