Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You never know , Mother ; I may one day move up into society . |
| 2 | ‘ He has just told me that if I continue in my present path , remain the fine , upstanding , clean-living boy I so evidently am , I may one day hope — wait for it — to be elected to — Gracious heavens ! — the Cullbridge Athenaeum ! ’ |
| 3 | I should good haul . |
| 4 | Still , however , I cherished the fantasy that I might one day have a son who would fulfil that dream , and always he had Leslie 's eyes , dark , with soft expressive light . |
| 5 | I made no notes of these visits to Out Patients , for at the time I had no idea that I might one day feel my experience with cancer sufficiently interesting to write about . |
| 6 | It never crossed my mind that I might one day have to fight . |
| 7 | They say I had the vanity to suppose that he and I might one day share the authorship of some literary work . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , and I might one day be Queen of England ! |
| 9 | I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral . |
| 10 | I said I wish I could happy go lucky like that I do n't think she re , she rings me up , you do n't wan na ring me ! |
| 11 | I finished up in Rome , home to so many of the works I lectured on , and on my last night there I took a walk down to Bernini 's Trevi fountain in order to throw in the coin that would ensure that somehow I would one day return . |
| 12 | I was secretly hoping I would one day find a way of escaping and returning to my own country . |
| 13 | On Raglan Road on an autumn day I saw her first , and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare that I would one day rue I saw the danger , then I walked along the enchanted way And I said let grief be a falling leaf At the dawning of the day … |
| 14 | No one had the Art Room , the Science Lab , the Handwork Room , the Staff Common Room or the Headmaster 's Study , though there was a chance someone would one day . |
| 15 | At this rate , I shall one day be able to put together a complete Pictures and Requiem … |
| 16 | Whether my knowledge that I shall some day die , that a nuclear war is likely sooner or later , that alcohol will kill me , that another person is suffering , does move me in one direction or another , depends on the extent of my disposition to take these things into account in choices , on awareness which may spontaneously vary from one moment to the next and be sustainable only by an effort of will . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps I will one day . |
| 18 | But I will one day . |
| 19 | The wife and child that Tod and I will one day have . |
| 20 | And I will next year . |
| 21 | ‘ I will any way . |
| 22 | I tell you I can break this bond , and maybe I will this time and leave you to starve , and maybe I wo n't , maybe I 'll leave that pleasure for another time . |
| 23 | But I will this time , and that 's a promise ! ’ |
| 24 | Alright then , I will this time . |
| 25 | Yeah , oh aye I can , I can , I can some conversation |
| 26 | In fact , I do n't think I can this week , " Sara added in a rush . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd normally vote Labour , ’ she said , ‘ but I do n't think I can this time . ’ |
| 28 | There is a clear role too for other new products in the T&L portfolio , including Krystar , a sweetener refined from corn syrup into a crystalline fructose , which may one day be interchangeable with table sugar . |
| 29 | VAT rates of 5.5% and 18.6% on imported works of art , peculiar to France , are also dissuasive , as is the French droit de suite tax of 3% , which may one day be extended to the whole of Europe . |
| 30 | The experience of watching my late husband 's 16-year fight against the degenerative effects of Parkinson 's disease ( one of those conditions which might one day benefit from embryo research ) causes me to write this letter in the hope that all who take part in the debates will recognise and confound these tactics of the anti-abortion pressure groups , quite rightly described by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service as ‘ an attempt to hijack government legislation ’ . |