Example sentences of "[verb] up the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 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 | Denis , he supposed , keeping up the first son tradition . |
| 4 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 5 | Mind you , I mean there 's no point they 'll be looking up the first word of each of these |
| 6 | Mr are you going to pick up the first point and then Mr . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A person buys a new washing machine , and is unfortunate enough to discover that ( a ) the cabinet is badly scratched , and thus not of merchantable quality ; ( b ) the machine ripped up the first batch of clothes and half-flooded the kitchen ( ie it was not fit for the purpose ) ; and ( c ) the model delivered by the suppliers was not the model agreed upon in the shop ( ie the goods were not as described by the retailer ) . |
| 9 | Have you used up the first side then ? |
| 10 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 11 | Seven races made up the first championship and the first was run at Silverstone on Saturday , 13 May 1950 . |
| 12 | Seven races made up the first championship and that number has fluctuated over the years . |
| 13 | The counsellor should not therefore take up the first issue raised by the counsellees which seems satisfactorily to explain their situation . |
| 14 | He 'd pulled up the first spring weeds from the flower-beds , little shoots of dandelion and dock and Scotch grass . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Somebody rang up the first programme to complain about people who were apparently telephoning the station and talking on air . |
| 17 | On Feb. 7 riot police in Cairo outnumbered and forcibly broke up the first protest march against the war by opposition leaders and 50 supporters . |
| 18 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 19 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 20 | The poster has been displayed on Underground stations throughout London as part of the ‘ Art on the Underground ’ series , and on hand to help Adrian put up the first poster , naturally at The Oval station , was veteran commentator and director of The Cricketer , Brian Johnston ( both pictured left ) . |
| 21 | because you can go down in your first line move to the first letter o , after the number , hit the tab key and you 've actually lined up the first line along with the rest of your paragraph . |
| 22 | and also er setting up the first assignment for you . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 25 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |
| 26 | Sitting on the edge of the bed , Tug balanced the tray on his knees and began to cut up the first beefburger . |
| 27 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |
| 28 | The Lions eased away after the anticipated all-action start from North Harbour and a 70-yard touch kick by Rob Andrew set up the first score in the ninth minute . |
| 29 | Satan , in his accustomed place in the lead , came to a stop as he picked up the first trace of man-scent . |
| 30 | That should shake the audience to attention , she thought , as she picked up the first book . |