Example sentences of "not [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Not for the first time , Yanto realised what an excellent cook Molly was . |
| 32 | Not for the first time she found herself pitying Sarah Morey . |
| 33 | Not for the first time , Kelly felt an unmistakable tug of attraction towards him . |
| 34 | Not for the first time , Reg Butler tried to analyse what was wrong with his son and the way he ran the business . |
| 35 | Not for the first time Delaney looked into the eyes that were deep , infathomable pools of green , and at the copper-coloured hair falling around the high smooth cheek bones ; at the small upturned nose and a mouth just large enough to hint at the animal sensuality lying dormant beneath the surface . |
| 36 | Not for the first time did it occur to Meryl that there was an obscure kind of convenience in having a schizophrenic on the premises . |
| 37 | By 1970 the official limit , not for the first time , was set at no less than 12,000 kilograms , a fair bit up on the I935 maximum of 7,500 kilograms , while the average yield topped I3,800 kilograms per hectare and , after setting the official limit at I3,000 kilograms in 1973 , a law was passed the following year placing an absolute ceiling of 13,000 kilograms per hectare on all AOC Champagne vineyards , beyond which the so-called maximum could not be stretched . |
| 38 | My wife , Daphne , volunteered to stay and man — sorry , woman — the ramparts at home ; thus proving , not for the first time , she was far too bright to have married me in the first place . |
| 39 | As the throng of workers laughed and joked , tucking into the vast amount of food laid out before them , Annie 's mind went back to other Mell Suppers and not for the first time , she reflected on how her family had dwindled . |
| 40 | Not for the first time in the past few months , Jonadab was disturbed to recognise envy and the seeds of discord in his youngest son . |
| 41 | Ruth asked , not for the first time . |
| 42 | Another splendidly flighted pass found McClair in the danger zone , but not for the first time the Scot 's control was wayward . |
| 43 | Not for the first time this season , he was lucky to last 90 minutes . |
| 44 | The chancellor who had long been an admirer of the queen , was affected not for the first time by her beauty and appeal — attributes which , it seemed to him , were in no way impaired by adversity . |
| 45 | None of this was her affair , she told herself not for the first time . |
| 46 | Joan sounded perplexed — not for the first time that evening . |
| 47 | Not for the first time , John Hogan at Marlboro played his skilful middleman 's role . |
| 48 | Not for the first time did she wonder where and when that waiting British Armada would set out with the purpose of liberating Europe . |
| 49 | In 1935 the League was genuinely popular with the British public because it allowed them to believe , not for the first time , that there was no limit to Britain 's power to do good in the world . |
| 50 | Not for the first time Annabel Croft is responsible . |
| 51 | But the real hero , not for the first time , was the veteran Welsh international Southall who twice saved from Holdsworth in the final minutes . |
| 52 | Not for the first time he wished he believed in something as much as Gurder did so he could complain to it about his life . |
| 53 | The CNT — not for the first time under the Republic — was driven virtually underground and most of the UGT executive imprisoned . |
| 54 | She wondered , not for the first time , how it was that her body could be desperate for liquid at one end while bursting to get rid of it at the other . |
| 55 | He thought , not for the first time , that a system which required ministers to run their departments , fulfil their parliamentary responsibilities , and spend the weekend listening to the grievances of their constituents , might have been designed to ensure that major decisions were made by men and women tired to the point of exhaustion . |
| 56 | Not for the first time , Bill Hicks tosses back his huge insect head and erupts into fits of strange , cricket-like laughter . |
| 57 | Not for the first time this year , Seles had been let off with a mere slap on the wrist . |
| 58 | Not for the first time , the legate had shown more enthusiasm for papal power than the pope . |
| 59 | Yet within the space of only a few years , all this optimism , not for the first time , was in tatters — against a world backdrop that was also changing : the waning of American economic strength ; the rise of Japan ; the rapid expansion of decolonialisation ; new superpower hostility with the Cuban missile crisis ; the slowing down of economic growth and indications of problems to come . |
| 60 | The whole episode was built around the book and before very long , and not for the first time , the fascist implications were there again , not only as far as Alf was concerned but , by implication , involving me too . |