Example sentences of "would [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they 're saying in effect is that they 're not going to entrust their latest toy to their closest ally because we 'd flog it to the first Russian we came across . ’ |
| 2 | Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours . |
| 3 | Mariscotti is a professor of physics at the University of Buenos Aires where he had become intrigued by the fact that the university had an old cyclotron , a primitive atom smasher built in the early 1950s , which would make it among the first half-dozen to have been built in the world . |
| 4 | The word processor is a very powerful tool for the transfer of thought from brain to paper ; probably most IT teachers would use it as the first introduction to practical computing , at least with literate students . |
| 5 | I should have realized that Clive would dump me at the first opportunity , that he had in fact been looking for an excuse to do so . |
| 6 | He would instruct them in the first instance to threaten to seize the man 's belongings to the value of the money owed . |