Example sentences of "n't [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gear were n't in first |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , about five years , but then I did n't at first have anything to judge my pain against . |
| 3 | It was hard to believe and she could n't at first . |
| 4 | He was a senior , dedicated member , and it did n't at first appear that he had committed any atrocities , but we later found out that he was responsible for denouncing people who had anti-Fascist sympathies , and that it was because of him that we had been taken to Tabiano . |
| 5 | A man she did n't at first recognise . |
| 6 | And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all . |
| 7 | But there was a purpose and he was reminded of it , a purpose which seemed to Mr Dass to be so petty that he had n't at first been able to take it seriously . |
| 8 | It was the time of Entertaining Mr Sloane , a play Ken did n't at first see himself . |
| 9 | I did n't at first but since people have said I 've looked at some pictures and seen some sort of resemblence … |
| 10 | The talk with the chief accountant in his plush office was n't at first revealing . |
| 11 | It were n't at first but it is now |
| 12 | It was n't at first , |