Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got out of bed and sat in my pyjama trousers and wrote a letter , quite a long letter , which I tore up at the first re-reading . |
| 2 | I hurried up to the first floor and on turning at the landing was met by a strange sight . |
| 3 | More than a hundred Unionist MPs were usually away from the House on military service , and 125 Unionist agents served in the trenches ; the party organization was used in the war effort at no cost to the country ; every local party was decimated by volunteers who joined up in the first rush ; and at every level , the number who joined up was more than matched by those indirectly involved through recruiting , raising money , running war charities or breeding remounts . |
| 4 | It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking . |
| 5 | She picked up on the first ring , almost as though she had been expecting him to call . |
| 6 | And of course we broke up , we broke up on the first of August er for the er month holiday you see ? |
| 7 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 8 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 9 | Since they turned up on the first day of term wearing headscarves , their teachers , supported by the headmaster , have refused to teach them unless the girls remove the offending headgear . |