Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up the first [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room . |
| 4 | That should shake the audience to attention , she thought , as she picked up the first book . |
| 5 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Satan , in his accustomed place in the lead , came to a stop as he picked up the first trace of man-scent . |