Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] would [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike said : ‘ She breathed for three minutes , giving us hope she would one day be able to breathe for herself . |
| 2 | Mike said : ‘ She breathed for three minutes , giving us hope she would one day be able to breathe for herself . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After his arrest he threatened officers by drawing his finger across his neck to suggest he would one day kill them . |
| 6 | I was secretly hoping I would one day find a way of escaping and returning to my own country . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | are you be able to tell us would that page at twenty six m , eighty five be part of the original brochure or part of something which erm was later brought out ? , looking at the type and the print in the brochure , if you ca n't help us just say |