Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [vb infin] [verb] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should have unloaded it first , ’ Catherine Crane said , apologetically , ‘ but I just could n't move in any direction with it where it was . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Meaning that I should have trusted my first impressions of you . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Sorry , I should have introduced myself first . ’ |
| 4 | I should have reported it first , but I thought I could always plead urgency if I was disciplined again , and I could n't take the risk of being denied access . ’ |
| 5 | ’ I 'd have to see him first . ’ |
| 6 | Steven , 18 : ‘ It 's difficult to know why people become monks , I guess I 'd have to try it first ! |
| 7 | " I 'd like to see her first , please and here . |
| 8 | Accordingly , I would go to see him first . |
| 9 | That 's the overall and rather special context of this year in , in the year of the youth but every year is an important from the point of view of commodores and clubs and the amount of work that ac goes on on the ground through supporting causes and the effort to recruit membership and it 's in that rather mundane day to day part of R Y A membership that I would like to congratulate you first I think all of you have worked extremely hard and the reports reflect the success achieved and I would particularly highlight the increase in membership , now that obviously has n't been easy and this does require a huge effort of , a consistent effort and it 's not something you can just apply every now and again . |
| 10 | ‘ I would have to conquer it first . ’ |
| 11 | If you 've got a sister who 's a Rainbow , she may want to read it first . |
| 12 | So you 'll want to see me first . |
| 13 | You 'll have to get it first . |
| 14 | and if you 'd like to ring him first and |
| 15 | She would have smelt it first — long before the old girl downstairs : she did n't smell it till we went in to get her . ’ |
| 16 | Moreover , there were many bishops who would have considered themselves first and foremost monks : St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ( d. 687 ) had a respectable ancestry reaching back to St Martin of Tours ( d. c .397 ) . |
| 17 | For cabinet work , however , you will need to fit it first , and engrave it in situ . |
| 18 | HARRY Mead is entitled to his opinion and I think we might have suffered his first disparaging comment on Bowes Museum and its founders ( Echo June 5 ) without protest . |
| 19 | The loved one is an ice-cool blonde genius murder suspect ( Stone ) , and the finale is n't quite as cut-and-dried as expected , which gives protestors a problem : in order to give away the ending , they 'll have to understand it first . |
| 20 | He loved the way she looked , with her glossy chestnut hair which reached below her waist when she let it loose , and her tinkle of necklaces and trails of silk scarves , and her neat slender legs in their high-heeled shoes , reminding him of gazelles ' legs or gazelles reminded him of her , he supposed , since he must have seen her first . |
| 21 | No , he must have said something first , now I come to think about it , because I can remember very distinctly the way he spoke . |
| 22 | If I went in , he would insist on cutting my hair himself and embarrass me by telling those waiting that he could remember cutting my first curls . |
| 23 | Cray Computer Corp , Colorado Springs , says it will start shipping its first scaled-down versions of the much-delayed Cray-3 in a bid to raise cash . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Cray Computer Corp , Colorado Springs , says it will start shipping its first scaled-down versions of the much-delayed Cray-3 in a bid to raise cash . |