Example sentences of "would [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He says that there should be an increased capital allowance for this year , cunningly saying that it would cost nothing in the first year ; that is equivalent to saying that the bill is in the post , as we all know that it is paid after 12 months . |
| 6 | He would instruct them in the first instance to threaten to seize the man 's belongings to the value of the money owed . |