Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] up [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnny Jamieson picked up a first half knock in the 2– defeat by Portadown but he is expected to be fit in time for Saturday . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Lions eased away after the anticipated all-action start from North Harbour and a 70-yard touch kick by Rob Andrew set up the first score in the ninth minute . |
| 6 | They knew the town 's closed order already had links with South Africa where , in 1931 , a group from the Carmel Convent set up the first Carmelite convent in Johannesburg . |
| 7 | POST Office workers put up a first class performance blasting round Britain 's fastest motor racing circuits in a Royal Mail delivery van . |
| 8 | When John Moores set up the first Littlewoods catalogue in 1932 , housewives ' shopping clubs were all the rage . |