Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [pers pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As I said , it 's up to you , ’ said this stupid young man , who could have done anything he liked to me — or so I felt at that moment — if only he had done it , and not talked about it first , trying to strike a bargain . |
| 2 | Keep an emery board handy in case of nail snags , so your teeth do not get to them first ! |
| 3 | When it launched a complete make-up range last autumn , it introduced ‘ Mirror Image Consultation ’ , a new way of selling which is so simple that all the other companies were left wondering why they had n't thought of it first . |
| 4 | We did n't hear about you first time round . ’ |
| 5 | So long as the frost does n't get to them first . |
| 6 | And if he did n't get to him first — well , it just did n't bear thinking about . |
| 7 | The Metropol Gallery of Vienna is seeking a buyer for the fire engine , provided the graffiti artists the Whitney once championed do n't get to it first . |