Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] the first " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A moment later , a second rider came up over the lip of rock and drew up beside the first . |
| 2 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 3 | Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’ |
| 4 | Sapiens International Corp NV has definitive agreement to acquire SmartStar Corp , the privately-held Goleta , California that came up with the first applications generation language for Digital Equipment Corp 's VAX/VMS , and is now working on object-oriented user interfaces for databases . |
| 5 | As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ I informed everyone in local league cricket , including 21 clubs of Asian boys , but only three turned up for the first week . |
| 7 | Over 60 turned up at the first two sessions at the town 's Southlands Centre . |
| 8 | Since they turned up on the first day of term wearing headscarves , their teachers , supported by the headmaster , have refused to teach them unless the girls remove the offending headgear . |
| 9 | The inclusion of Butler ( Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons ) was typical : omitted from the original membership he simply turned up to the first meeting , according to Hugh Thomas , ‘ and of course was allowed to stay … . ’ |
| 10 | Late in March Mahmoud showed up for the first time since the Yanks had moved out . |
| 11 | More than a hundred Unionist MPs were usually away from the House on military service , and 125 Unionist agents served in the trenches ; the party organization was used in the war effort at no cost to the country ; every local party was decimated by volunteers who joined up in the first rush ; and at every level , the number who joined up was more than matched by those indirectly involved through recruiting , raising money , running war charities or breeding remounts . |
| 12 | A bare wood staircase led up to the first floor , which comprised a bathroom and two bedrooms . |
| 13 | And of course we broke up , we broke up on the first of August er for the er month holiday you see ? |
| 14 | Patrick took his tea and went up to the first floor , to the long landing window which looked over the village green . |
| 15 | There is a particularly cold-blooded tycoon lurking in Coopers & Lybrand 's head office — Ian Brummer , a ‘ ruthless ’ computer manager , cleaned up at the first City Monopoly Challenge , virtually bankrupting everyone else in sight . |
| 16 | A long way off down the hill smoke drifted up from the first stubble-burning of the autumn . |
| 17 | It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking . |
| 18 | Axelrod draws a moving illustration of the importance of the shadow of the future from a remarkable phenomenon that grew up during the First World War , the so-called live-and-let-live system . |
| 19 | Wycliffe looked up at the first tier of planks ; the shot must have been fired from up there . |
| 20 | He made a show of pursuit , but gave up at the first intersection , returning to Jude breathless . |
| 21 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 22 | Also in 1990 , 15pc of mothers gave up in the first week , and 38pc by the sixth , compared with 14pc in the first week and 39pc by week six in 1985 . |
| 23 | At his first school , Stockwell Junior School , David dressed up for the first time in a school nativity play . |
| 24 | I got out of bed and sat in my pyjama trousers and wrote a letter , quite a long letter , which I tore up at the first re-reading . |
| 25 | I hurried up to the first floor and on turning at the landing was met by a strange sight . |
| 26 | And as the bridal couple stood up for the first dance , she felt the enormous gulf between their obvious carefree happiness and her present misery . |
| 27 | Outside his ears picked up for the first time the rustling of invisible leaves and the rattle of window-frames : the wind was rising . |
| 28 | She picked up on the first ring , almost as though she had been expecting him to call . |
| 29 | In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand . |