Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] not [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , about five years , but then I did n't at first have anything to judge my pain against . |
| 2 | I did n't at first but since people have said I 've looked at some pictures and seen some sort of resemblence … |
| 3 | Wrapped in her own thoughts , she did not at first hear what her husband was saying and only became aware of his monologue when Hank said : ‘ Say , Dad , that 'll be good . ’ |
| 4 | A man she did n't at first recognise . |
| 5 | She had not at first taken it seriously . |
| 6 | I was told that one reason why many Conservative politicians were sympathetic towards our Report was because they did not at first realise that our insistence that all children should speak and write Standard English did not involve any recommendation about RP . |
| 7 | Both were so absorbed in their activities that when the float went down , they did not at first respond . |
| 8 | Having himself come from a close family he did not at first regard his wife 's involvement with Chloe as unusual . |
| 9 | Something struck his face , though he did not at first realise what it was . |
| 10 | He was a senior , dedicated member , and it did n't at first appear that he had committed any atrocities , but we later found out that he was responsible for denouncing people who had anti-Fascist sympathies , and that it was because of him that we had been taken to Tabiano . |
| 11 | And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all . |
| 12 | But there was a purpose and he was reminded of it , a purpose which seemed to Mr Dass to be so petty that he had n't at first been able to take it seriously . |