Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [verb] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've got a sister who 's a Rainbow , she may want to read it first . |
| 2 | ‘ I should have unloaded it first , ’ Catherine Crane said , apologetically , ‘ but I just could n't move in any direction with it where it was . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Sorry , I should have introduced myself first . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Meaning that I should have trusted my first impressions of you . ’ |
| 5 | I should have reported it first , but I thought I could always plead urgency if I was disciplined again , and I could n't take the risk of being denied access . ’ |
| 6 | He loved the way she looked , with her glossy chestnut hair which reached below her waist when she let it loose , and her tinkle of necklaces and trails of silk scarves , and her neat slender legs in their high-heeled shoes , reminding him of gazelles ' legs or gazelles reminded him of her , he supposed , since he must have seen her first . |
| 7 | No , he must have said something first , now I come to think about it , because I can remember very distinctly the way he spoke . |
| 8 | So you 'll want to see me first . |
| 9 | His problem will be that Mrs Thatcher might decide to do it first , and then she will garner the votes . |
| 10 | You 'll have to get it first . |
| 11 | The loved one is an ice-cool blonde genius murder suspect ( Stone ) , and the finale is n't quite as cut-and-dried as expected , which gives protestors a problem : in order to give away the ending , they 'll have to understand it first . |
| 12 | HARRY Mead is entitled to his opinion and I think we might have suffered his first disparaging comment on Bowes Museum and its founders ( Echo June 5 ) without protest . |
| 13 | If I went in , he would insist on cutting my hair himself and embarrass me by telling those waiting that he could remember cutting my first curls . |
| 14 | " I 'd like to see her first , please and here . |
| 15 | and if you 'd like to ring him first and |
| 16 | Former England winger , Brian Marwood who 's on trial could have celebrated his first game with a hat trick , but County keeper , Martin Taylor was on top form and by keeping Swindon out and keeping his own team in the game he was the match winner . |
| 17 | ’ I 'd have to see him first . ’ |
| 18 | Steven , 18 : ‘ It 's difficult to know why people become monks , I guess I 'd have to try it first ! |
| 19 | Some black children may have had their first experience of Jamaican Creole from reggae lyrics , while others may have been attracted to Creole for the first time because of the music . |
| 20 | References in three separate contexts in Ali suggest that the lowest kadiliks of which the hierarchy normally took cognizance were those at the 25 -akce level ; and these would thus seem to be equivalent to the 20-akce medreses in being the level at which a fully-trained medrese student would expect to receive his first appointment . |
| 21 | That 's the overall and rather special context of this year in , in the year of the youth but every year is an important from the point of view of commodores and clubs and the amount of work that ac goes on on the ground through supporting causes and the effort to recruit membership and it 's in that rather mundane day to day part of R Y A membership that I would like to congratulate you first I think all of you have worked extremely hard and the reports reflect the success achieved and I would particularly highlight the increase in membership , now that obviously has n't been easy and this does require a huge effort of , a consistent effort and it 's not something you can just apply every now and again . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , Jimmy and his colleagues were pipped for the single promotion place by Charlton Athletic on goal average alone , in the most exciting finish to a 3rd Division South season in the history of our club , but it is perfectly possible to argue that , had Jimmy Wilde become available to Palace just one or two matches earlier , Palace would have crowned his first season with us with success . |
| 23 | ‘ I would have to conquer it first . ’ |
| 24 | She would have smelt it first — long before the old girl downstairs : she did n't smell it till we went in to get her . ’ |
| 25 | The quantity and variety of reading and writing , the mathematical ideas and vocabulary , the competence shown by many children in instrumental music , physical education , art and light crafts would have amazed my first class of children , and their teachers too . |
| 26 | Moreover , there were many bishops who would have considered themselves first and foremost monks : St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ( d. 687 ) had a respectable ancestry reaching back to St Martin of Tours ( d. c .397 ) . |
| 27 | Accordingly , I would go to see him first . |
| 28 | For cabinet work , however , you will need to fit it first , and engrave it in situ . |
| 29 | Ian Ferguson will return to play his first league match since injuring a hand against United on 5 January . |
| 30 | Cray Computer Corp , Colorado Springs , says it will start shipping its first scaled-down versions of the much-delayed Cray-3 in a bid to raise cash . |