Example sentences of "[adj] day [pers pn] would " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I knew that some day it would come out about my Irish grandmother , ’ said Amiss . |
| 4 | On this day we would come to the other end of the running spectrum , to the fastest men and women on earth whose triumphs would depend upon mere hundredths of a second in the 100 metres . |
| 5 | It could be argued that had England scored faster on the second day they would have won comfortably , but having controlled the game from the beginning they were desperately unlucky to lose out to the weather ; and for the fans listening at home it was especially frustrating that it was a beautiful evening in England . |
| 6 | We would arrange to be something at a particular time in the evening and then the following day we would compare our thoughts . |
| 7 | Johnson had travelled hopefully and was about to arrive : the following day he would leave the comparative comfort he had hitherto enjoyed , and head into the wilds , and not in a coach but on horseback . |
| 8 | The following day he would underline all three by driving it to Hurstdown Abbey . |
| 9 | Each day we would assemble in a room under the supervision of a young Lieutenant and sing carols . |
| 10 | Because of the tight scheduling within each day we would ask you to arrive on time for each session . |
| 11 | Each day he would arrive at the theatre at two or three in the afternoon , long before the 7.30pm performance . |
| 12 | Later that day she would pop in , her words , to see Roxie Farmer in Abinger Road ; she knew her too . |
| 13 | If I had possessed a gun that day I would have shot Frank ; that is how bad I felt . |
| 14 | But Sairellen knew all too well that had Luke not been delirious with fever that day he would surely have marched to Halifax ; not with a pitchfork or a flail or a home-made pike in his hands , since he had never been a " physical force " man but there , just the same . |
| 15 | But all day he would n't talk to me , and I must admit , I did get quite a few looks and remarks from boys there . |
| 16 | If I did it all day I would n't like it — woman 's work is never done , she 's on the go all the time — even before you go to bed , you 've still got something to do — emptying ashtrays , wash a few cups up . |
| 17 | ‘ As I work with the prints all day I would get so bored if I wore them as well , ’ she once told an American interviewer , who expressed surprise to find her in such plain clothes . |
| 18 | This very day he would have to look these murderers in the face , the murderers of his youth ! |
| 19 | If it was a warm , sunny day we would pack all our belongings into the caravan and then we would head to the beach or we would go swimming in the pool on the park . |
| 20 | The fact that she would return to the same workhouse 10 years later was in itself not untypical ; many genuine helpers in such institutions may have had it in the back of their minds that one day they would become the cared for , rather than the person doing the caring , as old age took its toll . |
| 21 | In it , he entrusted his ‘ six sons ’ to the protection of his ‘ most celebrated and very dear friend ’ , adding that they were the products of long and laborious labour , but that he was encouraged by the hope that one day they would prove a source of consolation . |
| 22 | But nobody told the fish over millions of years of evolution that one day they would be prized for their decorative/educational/food value and put in overcrowded conditions ( relatively speaking ) in glass tanks/bowls , or ponds . |
| 23 | ‘ I used to dream that one day they would call out for a 10-year-old from the audience to give them a hand . |
| 24 | The commitment which the new proprietors are bringing to the enormous task of totally renovating and modernizing Low Birk Hatt is patently obvious For years they have denied themselves many of the luxuries they would otherwise have been easily able to afford because they both knew that one day they would need the capital to spend on the kind of home they both dreamed about . |
| 25 | One day we would all be washed away when the bridge fell in . |
| 26 | But still , we did have several holidays together and I had assumed that one day we would get married . |
| 27 | We did n't mix — the Forces and the students — as we really had nothing in common , but it was a reassurance to see them going about their daily business , as an indication that one day we would all be able to revert to peacetime pursuits . |
| 28 | One day he would be wealthy enough to buy shoes with metal caps and a fur-lined leather jacket , and a big iron skillet filled to the brim with red meat and eggs and mushrooms and sausages and crispy fried bread in sizzling hot fat . |
| 29 | Pete Waterman had once promised his prodigy that one day he would transform her into the Madonna . |
| 30 | On one day he would articulate his awareness that his life-span would be short ; on other days he would speak vibrantly to the issue of looking forward to returning to work , to what type of work he would be doing in the future , and so forth and so on . |