Example sentences of "would be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We eat eggs all the time ; we 'd be the first to be affected . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd be the first to admit that we do n't always make the best use of our review space from the manufacturer 's point of view , because we mention what we feel is important to our readers and not what the manufacturer wants us to promote , though the two will often coincide . |
| 3 | ‘ If he had got married I 'd be the first to know , ’ his spokeswoman , Hester Blott , tells me . |
| 4 | There 's no question Quinn — and Cottee , Aldridge and the rest — are masters of the art and if I had one in my club , he 'd be the first name on the sheet . |
| 5 | And Kartoffel knew they 'd be the first to tread the Eiger 's virgin summit . |
| 6 | You 'd be the first to agree , sir , that in the circumstances , anything is worth a try . ’ |
| 7 | If I was injured , he 'd be the first to come to my aid . |
| 8 | If there was a man on the horizon , you 'd be the first to know . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ She 'd be the first to deny it . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I might 've known he 'd be the first rat to desert this sinking ship . ’ |
| 11 | You know I would think we 'd be the first er industry to my knowledge to have a cost of living bonus . |
| 12 | " … were all hoping that this would not be a continuing situation , Steve , " Mr Smith said , droning nasally from behind the chip-board desk in his low-ceilinged office on the depot 's first floor , " and that you would be able to consolidate your position here by forming a positive working relationship with the remainder of the road gang , who , in all fairness , I 'm sure you 'd be the first to agree , have done their very best to well … " |
| 13 | Goreng had been worried it might be a set-up — paranoia and distrust were that army 's staple — and he 'd assured Martinho that he 'd be the first to go if that was the case . |
| 14 | ‘ You 'd be the first to complain if I so forgot myself , ’ she laughed back at him , ‘ but you need n't worry . |
| 15 | It is also clear if we had an accident we 'd be the first to die . |
| 16 | If I did love him , she thought more soberly , he 'd be the first one that I have , maybe . |
| 17 | He 'd be the first to admit it . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's said that if the flame-retardant with which they 're treated could be bottled it 'd be the first guaranteed aphrodisiac . ’ |
| 19 | But the way Bridges plays him he 'd be the first sicko picked out of an identity parade . |
| 20 | But the way Bridges plays him he 'd be the first sicko picked out of an identity parade . |
| 21 | you 'd be the first to say to her |
| 22 | Well football pools are a splendid started because recently somebody has won just over nine hundred thousand pounds , and it 's interesting to note that he did this without exercising too much skill , as I 'm sure he 'd be the first to admit , because he enters the same numbers every week . |
| 23 | It 'd be the hundredth root . |
| 24 | I told her she should really leave or she 'd be the last . |
| 25 | I always wanted the room at the top of the house so that , when the axe-wielding psycho came in , I 'd be the last to be killed . |
| 26 | We 'd be the last people to see what it 's doing to us . |
| 27 | I 'd be the last person to say anything against old Stavanger — he brought me into the company , and I owe a lot to him . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd be the last person to know , would n't I ? |
| 29 | you 'd think he 'd be the last one to smile , but he 's always smiling int he , lovely |
| 30 | I shot him in the back ’ Bailie asked Larkins to hide the gun and warned him that if anything happened to it , he 'd be the next to be ’ blown away ’ |