Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ germ ’ of this story , I think , is the idea ( I do not know who first expressed it ) that couples of servants who apply for situations as man and wife have often met for the first time in the registry office . |
| 2 | I do n't suppose my first real piece for the paper was exactly world-shattering . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't like the men , and I do n't like my first officer . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't know his first name , but he was a consultant in some hospital in Carlisle and he ran a backup laboratory near Langstone in Cumbria . ’ |
| 5 | but I do n't know his first name . |
| 6 | I do n't know your first name , but I love you . |
| 7 | Miss You and the haunting Leisure and the particular highlights while Wanting reminded me a little of the Beatles Helter Skelter ( though I do n't remember it first time round , of course ) with its screaming guitars and music style . |
| 8 | ‘ I stopped my eight- and ten-year-olds from watching Grange Hill , ’ she says , ‘ because it covered abortion and , however well it was done , I did not want their first experience of it to be through television . ’ |
| 9 | The lyrics , 2 , are unmistakably Prince , all 2s and 4s and Us , with a sentiment similar to Janet Jackson 's AIDS generation love song ‘ Let's Wait Awhile ’ — ‘ it 's just that I did n't think our first date should be in bed ’ . |
| 10 | The lyrics , 2 , are unmistakably Prince , all 2s and 4s and Us , with a sentiment similar to Janet Jackson 's AIDS generation love song ‘ Let's Wait Awhile ’ — ‘ it 's just that I did n't think our first date should be in bed ’ . |
| 11 | But I did n't sell my first painting you know until 1975 . |
| 12 | I did n't like it first , when I bought it I thought it was a bit crap |
| 13 | ‘ And I did indeed enjoy my visit but I think I have missed the best treat in the entire house , what a pity I did n't see you first . ’ |
| 14 | As they walked inside , arm in arm , she said huskily , ‘ Darling , what would you have done if I had n't said it first ? ’ |
| 15 | I had n't deserted my first love , the Salcombe yawl Lisa , but she lived in my home in South Devon , and now that I was officially attached to Sir Edmund Pusey 's Police Liaison Group at the Home Office I had to live in London , and the Crouch was much more accessible . |
| 16 | INFANT — A child who has not reached his/her first birthday ; i.e. 0–11 completed month or 0 year old . |
| 17 | If you say , ‘ Just have a go , we do n't mind if you do n't do it first time ’ , a sensitive child will probably clam up . |
| 18 | The cottages vary ( some are cooled by air-conditioning , some just by a fan ) so if you do n't like your first one , ask to see the others . |
| 19 | If she had n't approached me first I doubt I should have recognised her , she was so different from the plump , fresh-faced girl whom I had met on the train that January morning more than three years ago . |
| 20 | We have not dealt with a report from the Advisory Centre for Education saying that the number of complaints from parents who had not got their first choice of school had doubled . |
| 21 | but she said if you have n't paid your first half , they demand the lot , which I know that |
| 22 | If you have not finished your first choice question in the allotted time , stop writing and leave sufficient space to finish it later . |
| 23 | They had not paid themselves first , in spite of the debenture 's terms , but had paid off the mortgage . |
| 24 | He has run 165 marathons , 76 half-marathons , nine 61-milers , 13 30-milers and 13 25-milers — and he did n't do his first marathon until shortly before his 60th birthday . |
| 25 | I promised to ring him , if he did n't ring me first , reassured her again that everything was fine and that she did n't need to drive over to look after me . |
| 26 | That was presumably his stage debut , because although his teacher Marjorie Sturman started the Johannesburg Festival Ballet Society about that time , it did not give its first public performance until the following year , when he was already in Cape Town and unable to get away . |
| 27 | And once again I thought of Prospero ; even if he had not said it first , I should have thought of it then . |