Example sentences of "would [verb] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
| 2 | In consultation with Associate Producer Mervyn Pinfield , who would direct the first four episodes , Whitaker won an agreement that everything should be done to portray the Sensorites as timid , sympathetic creatures , leaving true villainy to the beast present , if mostly dormant , in the hearts of men . |
| 3 | Soon he would smell the first sour tang of winter on the sea breezes . |
| 4 | According to early ethological studies , it seemed that the young of certain birds like ducks and chickens would follow the first moving object they met and form a lasting attachment to it ; also that this attachment could take place only within a sharply limited period early on in development , and that it would affect all subsequent relationships . |
| 5 | Recent palaeomagnetic results , suggesting that there are persistent preferred longitudinal paths for the virtual geomagnetic pole ( VGP ) during reversals , would provide the first direct evidence of the solid mantle 's influence on the core , although their statistical significance has been disputed . |
| 6 | In New York , television computer projections suggested Mr David Dinkins , a Democrat , would become the first black mayor of the city , beating the Republican , Mr Rudolph Giuliani . |
| 7 | The announcement by Gray , 49 , caused widespread consternation amongst political commentators as his successful 12-year congressional career had led many to predict that he would become the first black Speaker of the House . |
| 8 | For example , the following code sequence would invert the first 20 characters on line 0 starting a column 0 . |
| 9 | In any case , we would recommend the first two categories be combined to prevent the separation of landscape and nature conservation criteria . |
| 10 | At 1989 prices , this would turn the first British PWR into a £2 billion project even before it had generated a single kilowatt of electricity . |
| 11 | Even if we rejected integrity and based our political activity only on fairness , justice , and procedural due process , we would find the first two virtues sometimes pulling in opposite directions . |