Example sentences of "pick [adv prt] the first " in BNC.

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1 Hannon had picked up the first two races as well after starting the day with no confidence at all .
2 Mr are you going to pick up the first point and then Mr .
3 From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope .
4 Missy had heard their engines long before a human ear could pick up the first faint sound and had come to tell her .
5 And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head .
6 That should shake the audience to attention , she thought , as she picked up the first book .
7 Satan , in his accustomed place in the lead , came to a stop as he picked up the first trace of man-scent .
8 She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room .
9 Indeed , in November , 1915 , American radio engineers on the tower picked up the first broadcast voices beamed across the Atlantic from Arlington , Virginia .
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