Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up the first " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Somebody rang up the first programme to complain about people who were apparently telephoning the station and talking on air .
3 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 .
4 That should shake the audience to attention , she thought , as she picked up the first book .
5 She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room .
6 It was Johnny who set up the first weekly pools and bingo competitions at the Palace and it is from those humble beginnings that the massively valuable present-day lottery has grown .
7 With a solo exhibition of the works of Klaus Suss from Chemnitz ( until 5 May ) , Gunar Barthel continues its introduction to the artists who set up the first collective gallery of the GDR ( called ‘ Clara Mosch ’ using the initial letters of the names of its founder members ) .
8 But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets .
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 Accordingly , in the autumn of 1870 , under the new title " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " , he drew up the first main plan whose scope , in both space and time , went substantially beyond Greece .
11 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 .
12 His most productive bowling season was 1952 , when he chalked up the first of his five successive championships .
13 He set up the first try with a fine break after 11 minutes , for Lloyd to round off the move with an impudent dummy .
14 Satan , in his accustomed place in the lead , came to a stop as he picked up the first trace of man-scent .
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