Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I was secretly hoping I would one day find a way of escaping and returning to my own country . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | Eleanor used to say that she inherited her father 's nose and she would one day sue him for damages . |
| 5 | It had been a way of escaping from the poverty into which her family had sunk , and she knew that by working hard for long , tiring hours and helping Fred turn the mediocre business into one that was thriving and profitable she would one day be able to help her parents and her brother too . |
| 6 | But his lack of affection for her did n't lessen her love for him , nor did she give up hope that she would one day be able to make him feel genuinely fond of her . |
| 7 | ‘ When you 've lived as long as me , ’ said Lydia , speaking like the crone she would one day doubtless turn into , ‘ you 'll know just how stupid people can be . ’ |
| 8 | They generously hoped she would one day be happy with Angel again , and were afraid for her , knowing that Alec d'Urberville was constantly tempting her . |
| 9 | Birds also make a wonderful focus of ambition — everyone has a special bird he or she would one day love to see . |
| 10 | Mike said : ‘ She breathed for three minutes , giving us hope she would one day be able to breathe for herself . |
| 11 | Mike said : ‘ She breathed for three minutes , giving us hope she would one day be able to breathe for herself . |
| 12 | His eyes did not leave the view as he said , ‘ Did you ever think when you were living in that flat in Manchester that you would one day own all this ? ’ |
| 13 | That day at the Fontana di Trevi , you threw in a coin as all tourists do , so that you would some day return to Rome . |
| 14 | In those days , if you stuck an advert for the cinema in your window , you got free tickets , and long before I ever understood any kind of plot , we 'd all troop down to the local flea pit and watch whatever was showing . |
| 15 | At break time we would all troop down to the village shop for a bottle of Garden 's lemonade of a bag of what was all the rage in those days , potato crisps . |
| 16 | No but we would This money we spend at the moment er on the bridal magazine was specifically given to test the market by this advertising . |
| 17 | The next few years saw her and Ross out with this band of fun boaters and future rodeo aficionados though Lesley remembers having spent much of these early years bobbing about in the boils on the edge of the rough stuff , a result of lack of confidence in her own ability and perhaps not being pushed to perform by the guys in the group as much as they would each other . |
| 18 | The service power to view panelled view was that the three point nine million pounds was effectively a minimum exceptionable level and it was within this figure they required the one point six million on minor works and footways to be increased to two million pounds for nineteen ninety three ninety four , section three concludes that it will not be appropriate to attempt to finance these extra loan charges on a continuing basis on the fixed revenue budget , as they would each year and on an accum accumulative basis consume some three hundred and fifty thousand pounds . |
| 19 | They would all chip in later , of course , but she was too shattered right now , they must all be too shattered right now , to start doing sums , working out who had eaten what and how much it had cost . |
| 20 | The thought they would one day lose Lizzie never occurred . |
| 21 | Furthermore , he proclaimed that he would one day rule again over the Roman Empire , that he would vex dishonest priests , and that he would not cease from battle until the Holy Land was delivered into Christian hands . |
| 22 | After his arrest he threatened officers by drawing his finger across his neck to suggest he would one day kill them . |
| 23 | He confessed that he had ‘ missed playing Test cricket over the past couple of years ’ but had never lost the belief that he would one day play for his country again . |
| 24 | Ifor the idol he would one day have to dislodge . |
| 25 | Ask the thousands of FOBs — friends of Bill — why they have long thought that he would one day be a great president and their replies will sooner or later share the same point . |
| 26 | At the age of twenty-one , after some years as a clerk in a dry goods store , Marshall went to Chicago , telling his sceptical boss that he would one day own a store so big that the doors alone would be worth more than the boss 's entire business . |
| 27 | Perhaps the knowledge that he would one day die actually gave the poet comfort . |
| 28 | I suppose he 'd feel entitled to use a woman 's body for this purpose as he would any other . |
| 29 | He kept thinking of Jelka , and of the grandchildren he would some day have . |
| 30 | He shrugged them off as he would soft core porno . |