Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | Kendall can not rely on the likes of Barry Horne , who has not scored since the first day of the season , and youngster Billy Kenny to ease the burden on his goal-shy strikers . |
2 | Falconer , who made an impressive start to his Ayresome Park career , has not figured in the first team since a knee injury in the Rumbelows Cup first round against Bournemouth . |
3 | I decided not to vote for the first time in 37 years because of the EC . |
4 | Davis , who won the world title for the sixth time in May , decided not to compete in the first two ranking events in Hong Hong and Bangkok . |
5 | Preliminary studies showed that , with this method of delivery , the radiolabel did not disperse beyond the first 5 cm of the ileal segment . |
6 | Infusion of the liquid bolus at a slow rate ensured that the isotope did not disperse beyond the first ileal segment ; the present results confirmed the effect of a cholinergic agonist and antagonist on transit in the ICJ and colon , suggesting that the model is valid . |
7 | La Carlotta did not sing for the first hour . |
8 | Those ‘ events ’ of primitive evolution which did not qualify as ‘ good ’ should not be termed ‘ bad ’ , but simply ‘ not good ’ , because ‘ bad ’ implies the existence of ‘ evil ’ , and this did not exist during the first two of the three periods into which this book assumes universal existence to be divided . |
9 | Payment has never been demanded and it is possible that the provisions are not necessary because the liabilities they cover did not exist in the first place . |
10 | Not that she could n't handle him , but it was so much better if the situation did not arise in the first place . |
11 | The process of expansion which the press went through in the late 19th century did not continue beyond the First World War . |
12 | As with externalities , we can not expect markets to allocate resources efficiently if the markets do not exist in the first place . |
13 | MB 's is wearing clothes that do not fit in the first example eg. This time he refers to the good opinions that people have of him as new clothes and killing the king would be like throwing away hardly worn clothes . |
14 | I did n't sleep for the first week in prison , I could n't get used to the noise . |
15 | Yeah , I did n't smoke for the first six months and then I finished work and I was at home |
16 | For example , supposing you erm , this , this , this was used principally in child analysis , which did n't exist before the First World War , it was developed afterwards . |
17 | And yet the staff , if they did n't leave after the first month , stayed for ever . |
18 | but when I spoke about safety and getting the money back from the safety training that they now want that they did n't want in the first place you said , no , we should do that |
19 | He 's not gon na get anything because it did n't finish in the first three but it was two hundred to one each way , he had two pound each way on it |
20 | ‘ We did n't compete in the first half and if we miss tackles like that we 're not going to beat anybody . |
21 | ‘ I did n't listen after the first few words , ’ said Cyril , ‘ because it was so stupid . ’ |
22 | Yeah I remember the Bow but I did n't know about the first bit . |
23 | A race that nearly did n't happen as the first of August 's glorious ‘ weather ’ settled in . |
24 | He was going to leave anyway and we 've had a succession of drummers really because he did n't play on the first single . |
25 | He was so distressed and shocked that he did n't play in the first two Tests , batted himself at No. 8 in the third and fourth matches , and withdrew from the fifth . |
26 | Of course , if he looks dodgy then do n't stop in the first place ; just say that you do n't carry a watch . |
27 | so er erm and do n't forget in the first year all you 've got to do is pass |
28 | case of a shop assistant and you do n't know their name , do n't , write do n't know on the first line of shop assistant under occupation , only include people who speak to you |
29 | ‘ Maybe you do n't kiss on a first fight , huh ? ’ |
30 | you know , I I I do n't , I do n't look at the first four pages in the Express cos that 's |