Example sentences of "she [modal v] [vb infin] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She should ask him first before getting him things . |
| 2 | She 'd do it first . |
| 3 | Said she 'd kill herself first . |
| 4 | When interviewing cooks ( her table was famous ) , she would ask them first if they liked dogs . |
| 5 | She would write her first reply in the bathroom , turning on the geyser to pretend she was having a bath and writing joyfully on a breadboard balanced on the small wooden basin ( they used a breadboard as a bathmat on the freezing floor , because he liked the genuineness of natural wood ) . |
| 6 | It was Edna who had actually imparted to her the facts of life , Edna who had accurately predicted how long each governess would last , Edna who had vowed she would name her first daughter after Celia — and kept her promise . |