Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [vb infin] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , if only I could win the first prize ! ’ breathed Angela . |
| 2 | I could wish the first chance that came her way was n't nursing some poor old woman with a weak chest . |
| 3 | I could visualize the first restless stirring among tribes on the steppes of Central Asia , then the terrifying eruption of hordes of unknown people : lurching , creaking wagons , unkempt women and children , squat , slit-eyed men in padded garments , innumerable horses , felt tents , troops of mounted archers forever on the move . |
| 4 | Erm because the report is er quite a long report mainly the er part of the report erm I will pick out the most important comments and if I could take the first part of the report first erm this concerns a new staffing structure between er , newly emerged welfare rights and advice service . |
| 5 | Yes the there are two aspects really to that , one is the length of runway operating er and the other is the surface , erm , if I could take the first one . |
| 6 | we could do the first bits and about an hour really , this weekend not at work or anything . |
| 7 | He is still receiving treatment and with Canadian international Forrest still sidelined with a stomach muscle problem , it could mean a first team debut for Jason Winters . |
| 8 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 9 | As he showed in a report , dated 30th March , 1839 , to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests , the existing offices could be retained until the new block was complete , and it could form the first stage in a complete rebuilding of both sides of Downing Street . |
| 10 | If , however , the staffing improvement can be imaginatively exploited to create links between the special school provision , other special provision and primary or secondary schools then it could create the first stages of a unified , coherent service whose institutional boundaries are eroded . |
| 11 | Deprived of the usual dash of digital and chemical additives , it could become the first easy-listening album for the post-E , no power generation . |
| 12 | As a result it could become the first estate in the area to have a 20mph speed limit introduced . |
| 13 | Of the verderers he could see nothing , but so strong was his sense of present danger that Allen remained half-hidden watching until the sun came up over the forest and the wet rock slabs of the Waste shone like glass and he could feel the first faint warmth of the sun 's beams striking on his face . |
| 14 | He could remember the first time that he 'd stepped outside into country darkness and closed the door behind him ; it was as if he 'd been struck blind with the click of the latch , and he 'd begun to panic at his inability even to tell which way was up . |
| 15 | Whittingham , later Sir Harold E. Whittingham KCB , KBE , LLD , MB , ChB , FRCP ( Lon ) , DPH , FRCS ( Ed ) , FRFPS ( G ) etc , etc , had a wager with the Commandant , Sir Norman McEwan , that by medical examination he could forecast the first , second and third places in any track event over 220 yards . |
| 16 | It is unlikely that any of us could remember the first time we saw our own reflection ( mirrors often form part of toys aimed at very small babies , such as activity mats or cot toys , and there are , of course , lakes , kettles and other possibilities for reflection ) ; what is likely is that it was a member of our family ( probably our mother ) who told us : ‘ That 's you , that 's what you look like ’ . |