Example sentences of "did not [verb] [prep] first [coord] " in BNC.
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1 | She did not answer at first but moved or turned . |
2 | He did n't answer at first and there was something about the quality of his silence that caused a flicker of fear to touch her heart . |
3 | Carmella did n't react at first but then she looked up and saw who it was . |
4 | She says she did n't notice at first but her arm began to swell up later . |
5 | He did n't mind at first but when he kept bumping into sculptures of boats , animals or castles he became more and more frustrated . |