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

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1 Over 60 turned up at the first two sessions at the town 's Southlands Centre .
2 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 .
3 Wycliffe looked up at the first tier of planks ; the shot must have been fired from up there .
4 He made a show of pursuit , but gave up at the first intersection , returning to Jude breathless .
5 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 .
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