Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , separatist politicsans were predicting that ETA would make its first action a kidnapping rather than a shooting or bombing . |
| 2 | But manager Graeme Souness lifted the Anfield gloom by pledging John Barnes would make his first appearance in almost six months during tonight 's televised clash with QPR . |
| 3 | On Sept. 12 ESA officials announced that its new Pegasus rocket , designed to be air-launched and to carry small satellites into orbit , would undergo its first flight test in the USA the following week . |
| 4 | She ( Mary ) would use it first and anybody else was free to use it … three or four signified they would be interested . |
| 5 | Hit by relentless price competition and slumping business conditions , Fujitsu Ltd on Friday forecast that for fiscal 1993 to March 31 , it would report its first loss since it was first listed in Tokyo in 1949 : it sees a group net loss of $322m and a current loss of $169m for the year , against net profit of $103m and current profit of $437m last fiscal — current profit includes gains and losses made on investments in stocks and bonds and sundry profits and losses from other non-operating activities ; ‘ Customers expect lower prices , ’ said Mike Beirne , a Fujitsu spokesman — ‘ the price competition goes from the price war in personal computers right up to mainframes ; ’ the company acknowledges that losses are likely to continue into the first six months of its new year . |
| 6 | He ended up in fact with a high-spirited beauty , the Polish princess Clementina Sobieska , who was smuggled out of Austria and across Europe in the most romantic circumstances , although George I ungallantly offered a £10,000 dowry to any other suitable candidate who would marry her first . |
| 7 | She was going to be Fabien 's wife , but I would have her first . |
| 8 | The need to monitor that experiment and the conviction that the court would benefit from improved lines of communication between it and those who used the court , either as practitioners or as litigants , had led to the establishment of a Court of Appeal Users ' Committee , representative of both , which would have its first meeting later this month . |
| 9 | Premier John Major hinted they would have their first meeting ‘ in the next few days ’ . |
| 10 | Tomorrow , I would have my first real taste of desert . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He would take her first thing in the morning to see it . |
| 13 | Now , as if objecting already to the place where it would take its first breath , it kicked against her stomach wall quite forcibly . |
| 14 | ‘ Nobody would take their first album . |
| 15 | ‘ If possible , and with the perpetrator 's consent , I would test them first . |
| 16 | Chairman Robert Horton disclosed the moves at yesterday 's annual meeting where analysts felt the tone of his address to shareholders provided further indications that BP would hold its first quarter dividend in the face of bleak results . |
| 17 | I always wondered which judgement seat would get him first . ’ |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Thursday 22nd , up at 5.30 , we wanted to make it as early as possible to get to Churchill Dam where we would encounter our first rapids , Chase Rapids . |
| 20 | Someone kind who would put her first . |
| 21 | Many people believe that they would love themselves if only someone else would love them first ! |
| 22 | She 'd screamed at them through her letter-box , and shoved an old iron poker into the gap , waving it about in an obscene fashion which had made Stuart laugh ; when neighbouring tenants began to bang on the walls they left the parcel outside the door , not sure who would find it first . |
| 23 | When interviewing cooks ( her table was famous ) , she would ask them first if they liked dogs . |