Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buckingham did not realise at first that he had been the only one to get over the 23rd fence at the first attempt . |
| 2 | She did not answer at first but moved or turned . |
| 3 | The car occupants did not move at first , a rising condensation choked the dying ventilation , the inside of the windscreen visibly clouded to reveal nothing more than a general silhouette of the two figures in the front seat deliberating their actions . |
| 4 | The day after the declaration , which did not seem at first to be being taken seriously in Washington , Gen Noriega 's troops escalated the crisis into a confrontation . |
| 5 | They set off , but the Friar did not understand at first whom they were following ; it was as though he believed that the children had taken his sack . |
| 6 | When Belegar arrived he watched the Dwarfs rebuild their citadel but did not attack at first . |
| 7 | erm In fact a simple formulation of this problem occurs in the opening paragraphs of À la Recherche , erm when the narrator writes this : ‘ When I woke in the middle of the night , I could not tell where I was , just as I did not know at first who I was . |
| 8 | The plants lumped together under the umbrella name of herbs do not appear at first glance to be essential to maintain life , but it is now becoming apparent that this concept could be wrong , and that herbs are as necessary as oxygen , though the ingredients they contribute , such as minerals and vitamins , may only be found in minute quantities . |
| 9 | Deep trying if you do not succeed at first , and then they will eventually come out . |
| 10 | It was almost as though such an experience gave the initiated a glimpse of a deeper level of reality than the allegedly shallow analysis of contemporary society by those who had not faced at first hand the traumas of modern warfare . |
| 11 | Although data does not appear at first sight to be a resource of the organisation , it certainly is a resource , as data is essential for the organisation to operate effectively . |
| 12 | Usually , the hard currency exchanged by foreign investors to pay wages , salaries and utility and other costs , has a significance in Second and Third World countries that it does not have in First World countries . |