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

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1 Mr Fitton , backed by merchant banker Henry Ansbacher , first came up with the offer six weeks ago .
2 Cold fusion is the brainchild of Charles Frank , who first came up with the idea in 1947 .
3 And Mark S , as the one who first came up with the idea , what would you like to say about it ?
4 Later that year , when the writer was working on Loot , the idea first came up for the two of them to work together .
5 Jukeboxes as we know them today first showed up in the 1940s .
6 It was from the first bound up with the establishment of a foreign ministry archive .
7 W w when you first er when you first went up onto the picket lines erm h how m many of you w were there then ?
8 In the Ixcán region of Quiché province , the army has permitted the re-establishment of co-operatives first set up in the 1970s .
9 What happened was that the water first backed up behind the lipped edge of the top step , then over-flowed , and spilled with increasing force , in a sort of hydro-chain-reaction , down each subsequent step to the bottom of the channel .
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