Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided not to vote for the first time in 37 years because of the EC . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Preliminary studies showed that , with this method of delivery , the radiolabel did not disperse beyond the first 5 cm of the ileal segment . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | La Carlotta did not sing for the first hour . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Not that she could n't handle him , but it was so much better if the situation did not arise in the first place . |
| 9 | The process of expansion which the press went through in the late 19th century did not continue beyond the First World War . |
| 10 | I did n't sleep for the first week in prison , I could n't get used to the noise . |
| 11 | Yeah , I did n't smoke for the first six months and then I finished work and I was at home |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And yet the staff , if they did n't leave after the first month , stayed for ever . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | ‘ We did n't compete in the first half and if we miss tackles like that we 're not going to beat anybody . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't listen after the first few words , ’ said Cyril , ‘ because it was so stupid . ’ |
| 18 | Yeah I remember the Bow but I did n't know about the first bit . |
| 19 | A race that nearly did n't happen as the first of August 's glorious ‘ weather ’ settled in . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Eugenius then tried to dissolve the Council he had not wanted in the first place . |
| 23 | John Charlton had not moved since the first encounter . |
| 24 | The membership of the Commission comprised four members from each of Greece and Turkey , and three members from States that had not participated in the First World War . |
| 25 | Dulé 's canoe had not foundered in the first rounds of gunfire , but kept skimming on towards the Rebecca , with the remaining boats still around him , offering cover . |
| 26 | The catastrophic and arbitrary loss of love that you had not earned in the first place . |
| 27 | She had wanted to draw again , and to paint , and she had not wondered before the first class as to the group she would be joining . |
| 28 | Either way , she was looking forward to putting their plans into action with a relish she had n't felt since the first heady moment of signing the lease . |
| 29 | Stunned that he had n't known from the first moment that something was wrong with her . |
| 30 | Those lacking this knowledge tended not to succeed in the first graduation step and usually were to be seen a year or so later in either group D or E. |