Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pos pn] 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 | Ruth did not enjoy her first night on board . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Think of the actor suffering from stage-fright who can not remember his first line . |
| 8 | I can not remember my first day hunting but I can tell you a normal day of all-day hunting . |
| 9 | INFANT — A child who has not reached his/her first birthday ; i.e. 0–11 completed month or 0 year old . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Bush and Gorbachev did not hold their first summit until December 1989 in Malta . |
| 12 | Clios fitted with petrol engines do not require their first service until 6,000 miles . |
| 13 | Fleury had not finished his first cup when this happened . |
| 14 | If you have not finished your first choice question in the allotted time , stop writing and leave sufficient space to finish it later . |
| 15 | ‘ I was nervous and I was not making my first serves . |
| 16 | But season ticket holders will not get their first discounts until January 1993 . |
| 17 | Noguchi did not get his first retrospective exhibition until he was in his sixties . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Two people in the group did n't fancy their first at all . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Now Liz did n't win our first , second or third prize er last year , but she , she made it to the final twelve , er her , her full-length novel now , has now been accepted by Collins and that 's going to be published next February , there 's talk of a big American contract for Liz and Liz has now been floated away in to the world of big time professional writing . |
| 25 | I do n't know your first name , but I love you . |
| 26 | I do n't know his first name , but he was a consultant in some hospital in Carlisle and he ran a backup laboratory near Langstone in Cumbria . ’ |
| 27 | but I do n't know his first name . |
| 28 | He has run 165 marathons , 76 half-marathons , nine 61-milers , 13 30-milers and 13 25-milers — and he did n't do his first marathon until shortly before his 60th birthday . |
| 29 | Although it does have lower , lower power than his first test , right , but if you ca n't calculate his first test then it 's the best thing to use . |
| 30 | If Mr Khan prefers to be called Mr Khan , do n't use his first name just because other residents are happy for you to use theirs . |