Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] up [art] 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 | That should shake the audience to attention , she thought , as she picked up the first book . |
3 | She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room . |
4 | But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets . |
5 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
6 | 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 . |
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 | His most productive bowling season was 1952 , when he chalked up the first of his five successive championships . |
9 | He set up the first try with a fine break after 11 minutes , for Lloyd to round off the move with an impudent dummy . |
10 | Satan , in his accustomed place in the lead , came to a stop as he picked up the first trace of man-scent . |