Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] not [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl 's eyes did not at first stray in my direction so I was able in safety to look at her , to examine her , for quite some time . |
| 2 | It was the time of Entertaining Mr Sloane , a play Ken did n't at first see himself . |
| 3 | The advent of the spinning jenny did not at first destroy home employment in spinning . |
| 4 | These arguments had not at first cut much ice with social democrats , but two further ideological strands came to prominence in this period which helped to put the advocates of social progress through public spending and ‘ welfarism ’ onto the defensive , or even convince them of the folly of their ways : the monetary theory of inflation , and the ‘ too few producers ’ thesis of Bacon and Eltis ( 1976 ) . |
| 5 | The headquarters ' 38-set ( see Appendix 5 ) could not contact Ryder on the MGB and Newman did not at first realise how few men were ashore . |
| 6 | If the outside world did not at first grasp its significance , the Israeli leadership positively refused to do so . |
| 7 | When , in March , she realised her period was overdue , Liza did not at first worry . |
| 8 | Lost in thought , Eochaid did not at first hear the shouting outside , or see Thorfinn thrusting his way through the crowd to the door until he had almost gone . |
| 9 | The more successful the shops became , the more the branch managers reported back on those lines which sold well , thereby wielding a power which Laura did not at first wish to accept . |