Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [vb infin] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd go first , ’ said Fenella , who would do so unhesitatingly . |
| 2 | , Valley and Green , I 'd pick first , and then second I 'd pick Valley , third would be and last would be Green . |
| 3 | I 'd like first of all , bring greetings north of the border . |
| 4 | I would emphasize first , here speaking as one who has in the past given evidence on behalf of the Government , that the value of the scrutiny process is in part that it forces those with more direct power to consider their positions and their arguments carefully and to defend them in the face of public questioning by a Committee whose members may have long experience of the subject-matter involved . |
| 5 | ‘ I would prefer first to accept the cash bonus . ’ |
| 6 | I would recommend first trying a pair of tweezers that are intended for stamp collectors , as these have slightly rounded ends , are longer than normal and can be far easier to use . |
| 7 | I would die first — leaving him to die on stage while I went off into the wings . ’ |
| 8 | I was going to put the thing in there , but I thought I would ask first before you know . |
| 9 | Sykes had been as cold and miserable as me , hoping against hope that I would surrender first . |
| 10 | She 'd starve first ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She 'd die first . ’ |
| 12 | Robyn nodded and tried to decide who she 'd throttle first — Luke or dear Melissa . |
| 13 | Sometimes she would climax first , sometimes he , and on good nights they would explode together so that they felt the same tingling in the very tips of their toes and even then he 'd had to remember to withdraw — just in case . |
| 14 | She would eat first , she decided , dropping her bags and coat on the sofa , and then ring Bridget at home . |
| 15 | Following this ritual , she was separated from Annabel while waiting for it to be decided which class she would attend first . |
| 16 | But you 're right , this is where she would look first . |
| 17 | She would die first ! |
| 18 | She began to think of whom , what , where she would photograph first . |
| 19 | We would have first bite at the cake : ours would be the first footprints in the snow . |
| 20 | To account for this , we would need first of all to explain how the form how about VERBing is more or less restricted to usages in suggestions ( again , this looks like a linguistic form that has pragmatic rather than semantic content , a problem discussed in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 21 | So this is what he would reach first , thousands of tethered horses . |
| 22 | However the offices were closed so he said he would call first thing in the morning . |
| 23 | Somehow Walter always believed he would die first . |
| 24 | ‘ And so do I. Before he was born I decided he would come first and that , if it was at all possible , I 'd be at home with him throughout his early years . ’ |
| 25 | Sometimes it would start first thing in the morning and go on until the early hours the next day , ’ she said . |
| 26 | Nora guessed that if there was a fox in there and if it broke , it would seek first to go downhill . |