Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody rang up the first programme to complain about people who were apparently telephoning the station and talking on air . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | One of the " movements " in the suite which makes up the first act of Wozzeck is , it may be recalled , a passacaglia , that is , a set of variations on a ground bass . |
| 4 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 5 | Have you used up the first side then ? |
| 6 | She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room . |
| 7 | That should shake the audience to attention , she thought , as she picked up the first book . |
| 8 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | Satan , in his accustomed place in the lead , came to a stop as he picked up the first trace of man-scent . |