Example sentences of "[pron] would [adj] day [verb] " 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 | 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 … |
3 | I was secretly hoping I would one day find a way of escaping and returning to my own country . |
4 | Among the remaining trees , which would one day distinguish themselves in avenues and parks , and over the heads of the labouring workmen rose clouds of parakeets and honey-eaters searching for food . |
5 | She could not stand the thought of having a she-cat which would one day give birth to a large litter in her nice clean home and she did not wait to find out whether or not she-cats could be neutered . |
6 | Was he strengthening his border where it faced the great Angevin arsenal and treasury at Chinon , which would one day come into the hands of his feckless elder brother ? |
7 | A report from the Lower Franconian town of Kitzingen in May 1943 , dealing particularly with opinion among academics , salespeople , and the bourgeoisie — groups which had earlier tended to be pro-Nazi in their sympathies — stated that ‘ a disgust about the Party was building up among the people , and a rage which would one day boil over ’ . |
8 | When Conan Doyle put these words into the mouth of Sherlock Holmes , he could have had no idea of the tools which would one day become available to the great detective 's fellow scientists in their search for truth . |
9 | Birds also make a wonderful focus of ambition — everyone has a special bird he or she would one day love to see . |
10 | Eleanor used to say that she inherited her father 's nose and she would one day sue him for damages . |
11 | She had dreamed , as very young girls did , of a handsome knight who would one day arrive at her father 's castle , fall in love with her , win her heart by some brave deed , and carry her away across his saddle-bow . |
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 | The thought they would one day lose Lizzie never occurred . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | After his arrest he threatened officers by drawing his finger across his neck to suggest he would one day kill them . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Ifor the idol he would one day have to dislodge . |
20 | Perhaps the knowledge that he would one day die actually gave the poet comfort . |
21 | He kept thinking of Jelka , and of the grandchildren he would some day have . |
22 | The Ali Watch : how absurd that it would one day drop down here on a little hospital on Hilton Head Island , South Carolina . |
23 | In 1968 , the watershed year of the student riots in Paris , when most of the new generation of radicals were denouncing the Labour Party as hopelessly fuddy-duddy , he had joined up , believing it would one day become the focus for a new alliance of Right-On movements , Now , more than a decade on , his dream was starting to come true and the new radical politics were about to be released on an unsuspecting populace — with mixed results . |
24 | When he first struck up a friendship with Joanna , he could never have suspected it would one day put him firmly in the frame in a potential murder investigation . |
25 | But his skin would crawl as if he 'd somehow sensed that he was being watched , and he 'd switch on every light that he could find , including the big spotlights out over what would one day become the car park . |