Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] first " in BNC.

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31 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 .
32 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 .
33 The trial of Bradlaugh and Annie Besant in 1876 for republishing one of Knowlton 's pamphlets gave the birth-control movement wide publicity and created the demand for more information , and led to the setting up of the first organisation to campaign on birth control , the Malthusian League .
34 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 .
35 It 's staring right up at me , like it knows exactly what I 'm thinking , like it knows I have n't got a dream of ever coming up with a first sentence .
36 To catch up with the first part of the competition , the August issue can be obtained from our Back Issues Service , see p51 .
37 The next triplet of bases in the message ( AAG in the figure ) then pairs with a tRNA carrying the anticodon UUC , and the amino acid lysine ; thus the second amino acid of the protein , namely lysine , is lined up with the first .
38 Finally , David Stirling intended to take a small party and penetrate right through the enemy lines to join up with the First Army , which had landed in Algeria .
39 It was only when Cairo confirmed their names and service numbers that they were given the honoured status of the first Eighth Army troops to meet up with the First Army .
40 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 .
41 Countries opting for soft membership would have to put up with the first , and find substitutes for the second — for instance , by setting ( and hitting ) targets for money-GDP , using both fiscal and monetary policies .
42 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 ) .
43 It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking .
44 If there is make up on from the first erm removal , then you could then take off the make up with the first application and then go over twice more , so it would be three times if you 've got quite a lot of base or foundation on .
45 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 . ’
46 His solution was to come up with the first table of annual premiums based on life expectancy .
47 ST IVEL has come up with the first fresh yoghurt range especially made for young appetites .
48 Climb up into the first lost valley viewing the towering cliffs of Sgor Chionasaid and Sgor a' Bhatain on either side .
49 the ones who are , who have seen it all before , and done it from last year , because they had to split a smaller section of them up into the first year .
50 Paula , and perhaps we 'll bring it up in a first aid .
51 And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it .
52 Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’
53 Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended .
54 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 .
55 But young couples are often surprised , even shocked , by the ferocity of the rows that can suddenly blow up in the first year or two of marriage .
56 Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader :
57 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 .
58 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 .
59 She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’
60 ALTHOUGH 63 per cent of new mothers breastfeed their babies , 15 per cent give up in the first week after birth , according to a survey by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys .
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