Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [vb infin] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also made a promise to myself that when I got picked again for a major championship I would progress beyond the first round . |
| 2 | But I would think , I mean , ideally we need four I would think in the first instance er two of those and two of those and then the inners . |
| 3 | Oh it 's no been too bad at all I would say since the first of the new year it seems to be improved remarkably . |
| 4 | Yeah , I would have in the first place , but it was just impossible ! |
| 5 | She would leave at the first opportunity , and never again would she listen to the reckless promptings of her heart . |
| 6 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 7 | The aversion argument was extracted from its literary context and elevated into a full-blown defence of crudity in the Oz case : " One of the arguments was that many of the illustrations in Oz were so grossly lewd and unpleasant that they would shock in the first instance and then would tend to repel . |
| 8 | Lawrence Woodward , director of Elm Farm Research Centre , a small newly formed charity set up to research and develop organic agriculture , wrote to Prince Charles asking if he would speak at the first organic food conference to be held in Cirencester in January 1983 . |
| 9 | Oliver Twist was born in a workhouse , and when he arrived in this hard world , it was very doubtful whether he would live beyond the first three minutes . |
| 10 | Then the strategy ‘ cooperate with your neighbour if he cooperates ; otherwise defect ’ would be an ESS , although I have some difficulty in seeing how it would evolve in the first place . |