Example sentences of "[noun] ['s] time [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
| 2 | In less than an hour 's time they would be at St Petrock 's , and Susan would be on the platform to meet her , with dear old Sambo , the Airedale , barking his head off with glee . |
| 3 | With the tournament due to start in a couple of weeks ' time they would soon be past the point of no return . |
| 4 | In two weeks ' time it would be one year since he had first come to Iraq . |
| 5 | What did it matter if there would be no long-term future for them together — that in a few days ' time they would be separated by the cold grey expanse of the North Sea ? |
| 6 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
| 7 | Hal B. Wallis , who hired me , was a very shrewd man who recognized that the studio system was over and in five years ' time it would no longer be there . ’ |
| 8 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
| 9 | To achieve this in four years ' time I would be doing |
| 10 | In three years ' time I would be doing |
| 11 | In two years ' time I would be doing |
| 12 | But pro-devolutionists warned that in a week 's time they would return in larger numbers , each bearing a fiery cross , the Jacobite symbol of warfare between the clans . |
| 13 | In a week 's time it would be the longest day of the year when , in these latitudes , a gunner could accurately sight a twelve-pounder at half-past nine of an evening . |
| 14 | In eight week 's time he would be Virginia Grafton 's husband . |
| 15 | He had wanted to know if I knew a good cardiologist , because he had a granddaughter with a rare heart condition who needed an operation , or else in a year 's time she would have died . |
| 16 | In one year 's time I would be doing At each stage you move backwards through time and ask your unconscious mind to help you see a picture of yourself being highly successful on your way to completion of your objectives . |