Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] would [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Birds also make a wonderful focus of ambition — everyone has a special bird he or she would one day love to see . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Ali Watch : how absurd that it would one day drop down here on a little hospital on Hilton Head Island , South Carolina . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Perhaps the knowledge that he would one day die actually gave the poet comfort . |
| 12 | Closer to home , Brian decided that he would reforest Ireland . |
| 13 | John Wayne may be fresh-faced as the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach ( 1939 ) but , a scant decade later , he was prematurely playing old men in She Wore A Yellow Ribbon ( 1948 ) , much more convincingly that he would 20 years later on as a real old man in the indulgent True Grit ( 1967 ) . |
| 14 | Eleanor used to say that she inherited her father 's nose and she would one day sue him for damages . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He was almost certain that it belonged to Maidstone but he would newer leave half a glass of wine behind , surely . |
| 17 | An Observer sale would not make much of a dent but it would staunch losses Lonrho may no longer want to suffer . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 20 | It depends on an understanding by the man of the horse 's natural reactions , knowing that if he recognises the horse 's signals and makes the right moves , the horse will treat him — and trust him — as he would another horse . |
| 21 | I suppose he 'd feel entitled to use a woman 's body for this purpose as he would any other . |
| 22 | He shrugged them off as he would soft core porno . |