Example sentences of "up [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 2 | MUSIC students in Scotland and London are tuning up for the first annual LASMO Music Festival to be held in the theatre at Haddo House , Aberdeen , on 22 June . |
| 3 | He notes that any loss of earnings can usually be made up during the first ten years of work . |
| 4 | It seems that the traumatic events surrounding the over-throw of the primal hordes and the setting up of the first fraternal hunting clans produced in our ancestors a central psychological conflict of such huge and all-engulfing proportions that all subsequent generations have to some extent or other felt its effects . |
| 5 | Horror stories abound , originally fuelled by the publication of Ruth Harrison 's Animal Machines ( 1964 ) , a book which in Britain directly influenced the setting up of the first parliamentary inquiry into the new methods of animal husbandry under the chairmanship of F.W.R. Brambell . |
| 6 | It 's at this stage that one or other of the partners may start to get an eye so roving as to become a nose and take up with the first cloth-eared bimbo who gazes up or down and says , ‘ I ca n't believe you 're over forty — that 's sooo sexy . ’ |
| 7 | ST IVEL has come up with the first fresh yoghurt range especially made for young appetites . |
| 8 | Climb up into the first lost valley viewing the towering cliffs of Sgor Chionasaid and Sgor a' Bhatain on either side . |
| 9 | From there on , the cherry and whites took complete control and were 10 points up in the first 14 minutes . |
| 10 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |
| 11 | Piper , fighting behind a stiff left jab and a MENSA rating of 153 , backed Benn up in the first two rounds , with hard short rights . |
| 12 | LAST year , when the Dublin Tornadoes played the Belfast Spartans , the Tornadoes went 13–0 up in the first two minutes of the game before the Spartans fought back to win 16–13 . |
| 13 | This year the Tornadoes again went 13–0 up in the first two minutes . |
| 14 | CAPTAIN Will Carling last night told England to sing up and play up in the first 20 minutes or risk Naas Botha wrecking their hopes of winning today 's historic international at Twickenham . |
| 15 | The Diadora League minnows could have been three up in the first 20 minutes . |
| 16 | This view of community education and development is well summed up in the first Gulbenkian Report on Community Work . |
| 17 | Is th another area that I did n't cover actually when when we were looking at the flats was erm , some people have s have around said that erm flats when they were first up in the first few years , erm were a contrast with the later years , in that erm they did n't have many of the problems , Many of the problems associated with the flats now , didn we were not in existence in the early days of the flats . |
| 18 | A long way off down the hill smoke drifted up from the first stubble-burning of the autumn . |
| 19 | So I will take the blame for that one , but why did n't the machine tuck up on the first two garments of the same size ? |
| 20 | Over 60 turned up at the first two sessions at the town 's Southlands Centre . |
| 21 | erm , you do n't give up at the first little hurdle . |