Example sentences of "[pron] would [vb infin] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Franca , I ca n't — Oh dear — I promised Irina I 'd go over and help her pack — I said I 'd stay all day — they 're leaving , you know — ’ |
| 2 | Each morning , I made a list , in coloured pens , of the things I would do that day . |
| 3 | ‘ But , I mean to say , I did always think I would inherit one day , with Jack being such a confirmed … ’ |
| 4 | I would choose one day with you , |
| 5 | I would prefer another day . |
| 6 | I knew before I went that I would cry that day , but I thought it would be because he was standing in front of me , not because he was n't standing in front of me . |
| 7 | She treasured it — probably the only smile she 'd get all day . |
| 8 | Time , as W. H. Davies would say , ‘ to stand and stare ’ ; time to read the books you 've always promised yourself you 'd read one day ; time to think . |
| 9 | You 'd have one day left over okay . |
| 10 | He hurried her out of the restaurant and she took a last look at the castle as he drove past , promising herself she would return one day . |
| 11 | Dejection was again with her next morning , pressing heavily to remind her that she would face another day of visualising Doreen riding knee to knee beside Silas . |
| 12 | One grandmother , remembered as ‘ dressed all day in black silk ’ , had an annual income of £700 from the New River Company , which she ‘ spent in bringing us up ’ to make up for the incompetence of her solicitor son : she would sit all day ‘ upright in an armchair at the side of the fire ’ , opposite to her son 's . |
| 13 | She would spend all day with her daughter and then work on her designs until late in the evening . |
| 14 | Anna quite liked dinner , and soon she would know each day by what there was to eat . |
| 15 | She would take another day off and then go back to work . |
| 16 | I never thought we 'd see this day . |
| 17 | I mean , we , we used to have , like , we 'd have meat come twice a week , they 're the butchers , and then we 'd have coming , maybe , erm , once a week , and then like the dry goods , er , erm , we 'd have another day , where erm , you know , you have different things , basically coming every day . |
| 18 | The therapist helped them to agree to carry out mutual tasks which were that they would spend one day out together during the next weekend and visit a friend together on another day during the week . |
| 19 | There he would walk all day , refreshed only by a drink or two of water , returning home at 6 o'clock to a good Welsh tea . |
| 20 | He would remember this day , this walk . |
| 21 | It was raining ; by the look of the heavy , grey sky it would rain all day . |
| 22 | His eyes gleamed ; he smiled as he recited what it would do one day . |
| 23 | We knew it would happen one day . ’ |
| 24 | Sometimes he said he knew it would happen one day . |