Example sentences of "should [vb infin] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A refinement was therefore suggested , namely that he should keep his first wife and merely add a second . |
| 2 | You should see me first thing in the morning . ’ |
| 3 | And then — that I should hear it first from Nan-Nan . |
| 4 | In his book Anglo-Saxon England ( Cambridge 1970 ) Peter Hunter Blair wrote ( p.370 ) : ‘ The novice should take his first steps … with the aid of the Anglo-Saxon Primer by H. Sweet ( 9th edition , revised 1953 ) … [ then with ] An Introduction to Old English by G.L. Brook ( Manchester 1955 ) … and for a dictionary A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary by J.R.C. Hall . ’ |
| 5 | Stephen Spielberg says anxious parents should view it first . |
| 6 | Stephen Spielberg says anxious parents should view it first . |
| 7 | The centurion … commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea and get to land . |
| 8 | You should put yourself first and not care or be possessive about your children , or about making your husband the breadwinner happy , or making the home a nice place to be . ’ ’ |
| 9 | What no one had expected was that my xenophobic father should find himself first sorry for the poor little foreigner and then gradually — but quite irreversibly — falling in love with her . |
| 10 | She should ask him first before getting him things . |