Example sentences of "first thing you [modal v] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , if you were Andrus and for some reason you decided to start a campaign of your own , and you were , like him , a Copt , the first thing you would do would be to go to a bank and make proper financial arrangements . |
| 2 | So the first thing you must do is get a different message across . |
| 3 | The first thing you must do is to assign any system-wide logical names required by the process , eg. pseudo-devices used for the process or storage directories , and all the logicals for all the storage directories known to the process . |
| 4 | But the first thing you must do , once you know the figure , take seventy- five per cent of it , if it 's up to forty-five thousand and obviously these are . |
| 5 | The oak will certainly be removing many nutrients from the soil so the first thing you should do is dig the area over well and incorporate plenty of organic matter such as well-rotted manure , garden compost , leaf mould or peat . |
| 6 | The first thing you should do is write down clearly everything you want . |
| 7 | The first thing you should do , however , is send yourself . |
| 8 | The first thing you should do is to prepare a breakdown . |
| 9 | That is the first thing you should do with any burn , put people in a cold bath , anything to keep the burns cold because otherwise they can keep burning in for something like five hours . |
| 10 | What would be the first thing you 'd do ? |
| 11 | And the first thing you can do is fetch water so that I may wash off the city dust before I change my dress . " |