Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] a first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three do their best under Penny Ciniewicz 's rather heavy-handed direction , but they can not beat a first play that has just got too much to say . |
| 2 | Even so , Dalziel not missed a first team game since October and Saturday 's decisive strike against Kilmarnock took his tally for this year to seven as well as his total for the season to 30 . |
| 3 | The keeper , who has not played a first team game since October , made several fine saves to keep a Palace-dominated opening period goalless . |
| 4 | Black could operate on the right for there is no challenge now from Robbie Dennison ( Wolverhampton Wanderers ) who did not sign his new contract until earlier this week and has not played a first team game this season — missing out also on the club 's Scandinavian tour . |
| 5 | If you are not having a first course , a couple of plain poppadums are an acceptable indulgence , but do n't get carried away — and do n't allow yourself to start dipping in the chutneys ! |
| 6 | Ball , who has not started a first team match since the Shrewsbury trip in mid February , beat two defenders before rifling home a glorious 15-yard strike in the 52nd minute . |
| 7 | In other words , if you do not receive a first grading , that is as far as you go although you get a written critique , so that you at least know why you did n't make the placings . |
| 8 | Having been involved in a substantial amount of this sort of work for 15 years , I believe it is correct to aver that once a person reaches 60 there is an unwritten rule or convention which determines that he or she shall not receive a first appointment . |
| 9 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had not beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 10 | we do n't have a first aider on duty outside normal office hours , not flexitime hours , and er , if you 're |
| 11 | When Ojomoh boards that plane on December 31 he steps into a new world , the elite strata of an elite sport — not bad for a lad who never saw a rugby ball until he was 13 , ca n't get a first team game and came close to being escorted to a plane by police . |
| 12 | Davenport asked for a move last month because he could n't get a first team chance . |