Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] be [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back then , I naturally never thought I would be one day joining them as the support act . |
| 2 | Well one of you on cleaning fruit , getting all the stalks and stones out of the fruit , we used to have a sieve , not a riddle , a sieve with round , the wires were round in the sieve and you rub it , and the stalks would drop through and then you 'd put them out onto an iron baking sheet and sort out all the stones that and little bits that were in the fruit and you 'd be on cleaning fruit you might be one day , the other whichever one was the you 'd be cleaning and greasing baking tins , ready for the baker to put the cakes in or what have you , and then at night we used to grease all the bread tins ready for men to be allowed to drop the dough into the bread tins , and er stuff like that and cleaning up scrubbing down and |
| 3 | But if you went in the horse box on your single you 'd be all day getting there . |
| 4 | Maybe you will be one day , after you get rich prospecting the asteroids . ’ |
| 5 | We are free to give time to those who are like ourselves , or like we were once , or like we shall be one day . ’ |
| 6 | It may be early days to expect a consensus to emerge less than two weeks after the group was established , and it is now too late to forge a common front to influence the Budget . |
| 7 | It might be early days but this approach falls a long way short of forging a relationship with the viewer and when he turned to the big screen to ask a reporter a single question , it came across as completely contrived . |
| 8 | ‘ It might be one day . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'd better smarten up , my girl , or it 'll be seven days general fatigues for you when you 're back on your feet . |
| 10 | I , I 've just suggested Wednesday , it could be any day now |
| 11 | It could be several days before Maureen and lorry driver husband Tony , and Marie and boyfriend Peter Wadsley get conclusive proof of their babies ' identities . |
| 12 | If I could have any day of my life over again , at the price of my right arm , it would be that day ! |
| 13 | He had his week-end bag in the car and , short of an emergency , it would be several days before he was home again . |
| 14 | Samples of both victims ' blood would be taken from the bodies at the post-mortem , but it would be three days at least before he could expect to get the result of the analysis . |
| 15 | it will be one day . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't think either of us will forget tonight , ’ he said , ‘ but it will be another day tomorrow and we 've got to decide how we 're going to behave . |
| 17 | And it will be some days this time , because Christmas day is on Saturday , so it 's a very long , long weekend and holiday period . |