Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denis , he supposed , keeping up the first son tradition . |
| 2 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 3 | Mind you , I mean there 's no point they 'll be looking up the first word of each of these |
| 4 | He was responsible for drawing up the first comprehensive anti-drugs strategy , unveiled in September 1989 , which involved increased spending , heavier penalties for casual users and incentives to drug-producing countries to clamp down on narcotics production . |
| 5 | The second consideration is that batching implies holding up the first enquiries to be received . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The management problems encountered by someone taking up a first managerial appointment in a medium-sized branch . |
| 8 | Although menstrual cycles vary quite considerably in length from person to person , the average length is about 28 days with the ‘ period ’ taking up the first five or six of these . |
| 9 | Palmer won the man-of-the-match award after a superb performance , setting up the first two goals and scoring the third . |
| 10 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 11 | Robinson ran a school for retarded Christian children and had clashed with local villagers , who accused him of setting up the first Israeli settlement in Lebanon . |
| 12 | and also er setting up the first assignment for you . |
| 13 | Here he pursued his special interest in the surgery of inflammatory bowel disease , setting up the first stoma care clinic for patients who had had ileostomies , a form of colostomy . |
| 14 | Except , more often than not , the Second Mrs Tanqueray reveals herself to be a carbon-copy of the first one in almost every way but one and that 's only until the new Tanqueray brood arrives , whereupon Lothario takes to ringing up the first Mrs T to say ‘ Where did we go wrong ? ’ |