Example sentences of "that some day " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been his first and only history lesson , and throughout their hungry and needy years in Bunarkaig he never lost the sense that they lived under threat , that government was pitiless , and that some day they would have to fight again for the right to live at peace in their own place . |
| 2 | You could leave them behind so much more easily , to get on with the present , if you knew that some day you were going to return . |
| 3 | ‘ D' you imagine that some day someone will invent a gramophone that will play a record with a whole opera on one side , so that we could put the prelude on with the soup and have the finale with our cheese without having to get up ? ’ |
| 4 | She did n't know at the time that some day she would call herself ‘ artist ’ or ‘ writer ’ — not many teenage coloured girls from the Gorbals in Glasgow had trailblazed a path in that direction , so it was a real exploration into the unknown for her when at sixteen she set out to go to college to study fashion . |
| 5 | It came to the fore most strongly when she faced the fact that some day Dimity might marry . |
| 6 | I knew he had a private hope that some day he might make a book with them . |
| 7 | She died last month in her 80th year , knowing — as we all do — that the practice has not lived up to the vision , but still believing that some day it might . |
| 8 | No doubt some will stay on to summer in Shetland and encourage us to hope that some day it too may be found nesting . |
| 9 | I try to make excuses for people and I try to live as a Christian — but I still ca n't stop myself wishing that some day you 'll go through similar torments . |
| 10 | It is possible that some day such concern will change . |
| 11 | It is to be hoped that some day this fruitful field will be explored and the results given to us in English . |
| 12 | It is to be hoped that some day this fruitful field will be explored and the results given to us in English . |
| 13 | For her at this stage , not crying is a great achievement but she hopes that some day she will reach a better balance so that her tears will be for herself rather than to make an impression on others . |
| 14 | The occasion is famous , the protagonists are distinguished ; Scipio Aemilianus crying over burning Carthage , Polybius suitably present and ready to elicit the right answer : turning round to me at once and grasping my hand , Scipio said : " A glorious moment , Polybius , but I have a dread foreboding that some day the same doom will be pronounced upon my own country " " ( 38.21.1 , transl . |
| 15 | ‘ I knew that some day it would come out about my Irish grandmother , ’ said Amiss . |
| 16 | There can never be an excuse for what happened to James Bulger , but we should all hope that some day there will be a better understanding of why it happened . |