Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most innocuous sadism would fall into the first category ; sadistic murder would mark the extreme of the second . |
| 2 | This liability would fall in the first instance on the resident owner , then the resident tenant and so on . |
| 3 | In a typical 16th century English charter party the owner of the vessel acknowledged , directly or through the ship 's master , that : 1 ) he had let the ship and promised to prepare it , by a fixed date , to take in the goods provided by the charterer ; 2 ) the ship would sail with the first convenient wind to the stipulated port ; 3 ) in accordance with a receipt or bill of lading he would deliver the goods in good condition to the designated person ; 4 ) the ship would remain at that port for a fixed period to take in such goods as the charter party nominee party needed to reload , and that the ship would then return to the port of origin , and deliver the reloaded goods in good condition ; and 5 ) the crew would be as described , and would be furnished with the proper gear . |
| 4 | They had food in their saddlebags for two days , and the pack mules carried grain and hay for the horses , there being little forage in the hills the patrol would traverse for the first two days . |
| 5 | Here the occupants of the house would ascend to the first floor by way of the outside steps , as originally there would have been no inner staircase . |