Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | That first sentence setting up the idea in the reader 's mind that not only has the narrator committed a murder but that something has gone wrong and he has , despite all precautions , been found out . |
| 2 | After all Stonehenge was thousands of years old before the first bus-load pulled up . |
| 3 | The first try lit up the ground in the 23rd minute and followed two surging drives . |
| 4 | ‘ And as it is the first case to come up in Scotland , it could help other people in the same circumstances . ’ |
| 5 | The first watcher picked up the red phone nearby and punched out three digits . |
| 6 | The first attempt to drive up the cost of travelling by road brought down the government . |
| 7 | In Europe the first attempt to set up a GaAs digital chip production base in under way , inspired by the French company Thompson CSF . |
| 8 | Britain 's first attempt to draw up a national balance sheet was in England in 1362 , under Edward III . |
| 9 | It does not make for comfortable listening if one spends the First Act jumping up and down to raise the volume a notch , and the Third , mindful of the neighbours , turning it down again . |
| 10 | The first fairway extends up over a gentle rise and into a forest of huge , native trees . |
| 11 | He was the first commoner to stand up to the might of the king . |
| 12 | ‘ It sounds corny , but as soon as I saw her I knew she was the one , ’ said Blanc , whose first marriage broke up during the difficult years when he was struggling to build up his reputation . |
| 13 | Perhaps she knew he wanted a son , perhaps she said her first marriage broke up because her first husband found out he was n't the father . ’ |
| 14 | At her first move to get up he leaned over and lifted the bike from her , but before she could get to her feet he was beside her , sitting on the grass and looking down into her flushed face . |
| 15 | The first team to link up in a line with their arms crossed . |
| 16 | Shipman 's two-volume Story of the Cinema ( Hodder and Stoughton ) is also a very good read — the first volume goes up to Gone With The Wind and the second starts with Citizen Kane and reaches more or less the present day . |
| 17 | The first poster went up at Oval station on April 14 . |
| 18 | Seventeen years later in 1982 the first reactor started up , and the second one in 1985 . |
| 19 | His first painting goes up for auction on Friday . |
| 20 | It was the first company to set up a coal depot to supply the capital , displacing with railway coal the hitherto pre-eminent ‘ sea coal ’ . |
| 21 | Since one of the preparations given to the first patient contained up to 187 mg of arsenic trioxide per dose , there is a potential for fatal poisoning . |
| 22 | What usually happens is one bloke ‘ digs ’ ( see box ) the ball up , the other guy ‘ volleys it ’ high in the air , then the first guy jumps up and smashes it down over the net . |
| 23 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 24 | However , when the first violin takes up the theme of the lullaby high up in its register , he plays with a pure sweetness that makes him sound like a luminous voice in the distance . |
| 25 | The first speech leads up to a toast to bride and groom , the most important people of the day . |