Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps , if Pascoe had n't arrived , she would have gone first to her knees , then sat down , her tongue out like dead meat , with Zeno kneeling up behind her using his hands like someone binding a bale . |
| 2 | Would have gone first |
| 3 | It was precisely because the measures in the social chapter would have damaged first employment prospects and secondly our competitiveness against Japan and the United States that I found them unacceptable . |
| 4 | One insider explained : ‘ The palace would have to act first . |
| 5 | If that had been the case then the much softer shells would have disintegrated first . |
| 6 | One might reasonably have expected that the " building " would have come first and then the things it housed . |
| 7 | In a letter dated 19 November , the Lord Advocate said that in Scotland ’ Civil actions are raised in the Court of Session or Sheriff Court Mrs. would have to establish first of all that she does indeed have a right to raise an action arising from the unfortunate incident of which she has complained . |
| 8 | If there were a need for a review or anything of that sort the initiative would have to come first from the Catering Sub-Committee . |
| 9 | But she would have telephoned first . |
| 10 | It would have taken first prize at the Policeman 's Ball . |
| 11 | I would have thought first of all we 've got to update what we 've got as it |
| 12 | HP pooh-poohs Sun 's programme for focusing solely on discounts and wanting to move Domain users to ‘ ageing members of Sun 's product family ’ then on to Sparcstation 10s in two step process that would require going first to Solaris 1.0 and then to Solaris 2.0 . |