Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I stopped my eight- and ten-year-olds from watching Grange Hill , ’ she says , ‘ because it covered abortion and , however well it was done , I did not want their first experience of it to be through television . ’ |
| 2 | Emma still did not know her first name . |
| 3 | The ‘ germ ’ of this story , I think , is the idea ( I do not know who first expressed it ) that couples of servants who apply for situations as man and wife have often met for the first time in the registry office . |
| 4 | Ruth did not enjoy her first night on board . |
| 5 | And once again I thought of Prospero ; even if he had not said it first , I should have thought of it then . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We have not dealt with a report from the Advisory Centre for Education saying that the number of complaints from parents who had not got their first choice of school had doubled . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Think of the actor suffering from stage-fright who can not remember his first line . |
| 10 | I can not remember my first day hunting but I can tell you a normal day of all-day hunting . |
| 11 | INFANT — A child who has not reached his/her first birthday ; i.e. 0–11 completed month or 0 year old . |
| 12 | The party Statutes of FET y de las JONS were published on 4 August , but the principal consultative organism , the National Council , was not created until October of that year and did not hold its first meeting until December . |
| 13 | Bush and Gorbachev did not hold their first summit until December 1989 in Malta . |
| 14 | Clios fitted with petrol engines do not require their first service until 6,000 miles . |
| 15 | Fleury had not finished his first cup when this happened . |
| 16 | If you have not finished your first choice question in the allotted time , stop writing and leave sufficient space to finish it later . |
| 17 | ‘ I was nervous and I was not making my first serves . |
| 18 | But season ticket holders will not get their first discounts until January 1993 . |
| 19 | Noguchi did not get his first retrospective exhibition until he was in his sixties . |
| 20 | Pray for all those training for the mission field at the Glasgow Bible College or the Scottish Baptist College , that they would be anointed for their task and that they would not lose their first love of Jesus Himself as they study scriptures . |
| 21 | He claimed that tournament judges had openly declared they would not place him first because he was ‘ queer . ’ |
| 22 | Normal subjects always begin a sleep period with slow wave sleep , and do not start their first REM sleep period for at least forty-five minutes , sometimes as long as two hours . |
| 23 | The receivers had already paid off the debt to the bank which gave rise to their appointment , but had not paid themselves first , as they were entitled to do under the terms of their appointment ( p 99 ) . |
| 24 | They had not paid themselves first , in spite of the debenture 's terms , but had paid off the mortgage . |
| 25 | He was relieved to feel that he would not be alone with Eleanor and was sure that he would be able , casually and quietly , to say something about Liza in the course of the evening — that is , if Eleanor did not say something first . |
| 26 | Two people in the group did n't fancy their first at all . |
| 27 | The lyrics , 2 , are unmistakably Prince , all 2s and 4s and Us , with a sentiment similar to Janet Jackson 's AIDS generation love song ‘ Let's Wait Awhile ’ — ‘ it 's just that I did n't think our first date should be in bed ’ . |
| 28 | The lyrics , 2 , are unmistakably Prince , all 2s and 4s and Us , with a sentiment similar to Janet Jackson 's AIDS generation love song ‘ Let's Wait Awhile ’ — ‘ it 's just that I did n't think our first date should be in bed ’ . |
| 29 | If she had n't approached me first I doubt I should have recognised her , she was so different from the plump , fresh-faced girl whom I had met on the train that January morning more than three years ago . |
| 30 | 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 . |