Example sentences of "would [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early days the novelty must have outweighed the discomfort , or no one would have travelled in the first charabancs . |
| 2 | Which you would have done in the first place , Lowell thought , if you had n't been so sure that Rose was here . |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe if you 'd accepted my offer of an air ticket to all the other Grands Prix I would have come in the first six there , too . ’ |
| 4 | It does not immediately cure all known cancers — something that no one with a modicum of medical knowledge would have expected in the first place given the different causes and the versatility of cancer — nor is it without undesirable side effects . |
| 5 | Without John I doubt is any of us would have got past the first post . |
| 6 | Without John I doubt if any of us would have got past the first post . |