Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] up [art] first " in BNC.

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1 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 !
2 If you delay the answering of letters , of course that creates more letters chasing up the first ones and that is again where you are getting your priorities wrong , admittedly on a very small items .
3 The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order .
4 Seven races made up the first championship and the first was run at Silverstone on Saturday , 13 May 1950 .
5 Seven races made up the first championship and that number has fluctuated over the years .
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