Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] up the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other four winning projects are : Community Education , Whitechapel Art Gallery , London , an educational programme under the direction of Lucy Dawe Lane involving over 200 artists living in the East End of London , ( the award will be used to set up after-school activities for local Bengali children and their families ) ; Art in Albany Prison , Isle of Wight , where Colin Riches has set up the first art centre in a maximum security jail , providing full-time employment and art education for eighteen long-term prisoners , ( Colin Riches will use his award to carry out further researches into the benefits of art in prisons ) ; Art Trust , Homerton Hospital , London , where the inspiration of surgeon William Shand has covered the bare walls and public spaces of the new building with specially-commissioned pictures and sculpture , ( the award will be used to commission a major sculpture for the principal courtyard ; and The Fan Museum , Greenwich , London , the first museum of fans , set up by Dicky and Helen Alexander who have donated their collection of 2,000 fans to the museum , ( the award will be used to provide proper storage facilities for the collection ) . |
| 2 | He revisited the USA in 1917 to play a decisive part in helping to set up the first official American military intelligence service . |
| 3 | He 'd pulled up the first spring weeds from the flower-beds , little shoots of dandelion and dock and Scotch grass . |
| 4 | Mr are you going to pick up the first point and then Mr . |
| 5 | BLANTYRE 's Jim McCann and Richard Corsie , from Edinburgh , go into action in today 's semi-finals of the Midland Bank World Indoor Singles Championship attempting to set up the first all-Scottish final for four years on Sunday . |
| 6 | Sitting on the edge of the bed , Tug balanced the tray on his knees and began to cut up the first beefburger . |
| 7 | United made sure of the win midway through the second half … a gold star for David Collins having set up the first he made the second too … |
| 8 | The bus failed to get up the first steep hill it came to . |
| 9 | The second consideration is that batching implies holding up the first enquiries to be received . |
| 10 | Hannon had picked up the first two races as well after starting the day with no confidence at all . |
| 11 | THE UNITED Nations is planning to set up the first international research centre for applying genetic engineering and biotechnology to crops . |
| 12 | In a bid to boost environmentally-friendly tourism , the Broads Authority and Eastern Electricity have set up the first of a series of recharging points for electric boats on the northern rivers of the Broads . |