Example sentences of "would have [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't go without the gear , so I 'd have missed the first day . |
| 2 | He would have become the first show jumper to win more than £1 million in prize money : at present his total earnings are about £50,000 short of that . |
| 3 | Lawrence would have preferred the first leg on Sunday , March 1 . |
| 4 | But although the saintly Tit for Two Tats would have won the first tournament if it had been submitted , it did not win the second . |
| 5 | But there again , he never sent her to the really big houses because , as he said , if there was anything going , the servants would have had the first pick . |
| 6 | He says now that if he 'd known what it would involve he would have taken the first plane out of town , but I was hugely relieved when he agreed . |