Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was presumably his stage debut , because although his teacher Marjorie Sturman started the Johannesburg Festival Ballet Society about that time , it did not give its first public performance until the following year , when he was already in Cape Town and unable to get away . |
| 2 | Noguchi did not get his first retrospective exhibition until he was in his sixties . |
| 3 | Pegasus did n't win their first short corner of the game until the 28th minute , and that was down to Nadine Long , who at times was the only forward prepared to take on the Portadown defence . |
| 4 | I do n't suppose my first real piece for the paper was exactly world-shattering . |
| 5 | At the time of the Korean War , when Attlee helped to persuade Truman to drop any idea of using the atomic bomb against the Chinese mainland , Britain had not exploded her first nuclear weapon . |