Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] up [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’ |
| 2 | At his first school , Stockwell Junior School , David dressed up for the first time in a school nativity play . |
| 3 | After staging several provocative manoeuvres in Vilnius , the newly arrived Soviet paratroopers on Jan. 11 occupied the headquarters of the Lithuanian Defence Council , a government department set up as a first step towards establishing an independent Lithuanian army . |
| 4 | Outside his ears picked up for the first time the rustling of invisible leaves and the rattle of window-frames : the wind was rising . |
| 5 | Late in March Mahmoud showed up for the first time since the Yanks had moved out . |
| 6 | A long way off down the hill smoke drifted up from the first stubble-burning of the autumn . |
| 7 | Also in 1990 , 15pc of mothers gave up in the first week , and 38pc by the sixth , compared with 14pc in the first week and 39pc by week six in 1985 . |
| 8 | Wycliffe looked up at the first tier of planks ; the shot must have been fired from up there . |
| 9 | A bare wood staircase led up to the first floor , which comprised a bathroom and two bedrooms . |
| 10 | And as the bridal couple stood up for the first dance , she felt the enormous gulf between their obvious carefree happiness and her present misery . |
| 11 | In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand . |