Example sentences of "[vb past] n't [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't sleep for the first week in prison , I could n't get used to the noise . |
| 2 | Yeah , I did n't smoke for the first six months and then I finished work and I was at home |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And yet the staff , if they did n't leave after the first month , stayed for ever . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | ‘ We did n't compete in the first half and if we miss tackles like that we 're not going to beat anybody . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't listen after the first few words , ’ said Cyril , ‘ because it was so stupid . ’ |
| 9 | Yeah I remember the Bow but I did n't know about the first bit . |
| 10 | A race that nearly did n't happen as the first of August 's glorious ‘ weather ’ settled in . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Stunned that he had n't known from the first moment that something was wrong with her . |