Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] [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 In fact I 'd wait four days , I 'd wait four years to watch it on T V it 's so crap .
3 Each morning , I made a list , in coloured pens , of the things I would do that day .
4 ‘ But , I mean to say , I did always think I would inherit one day , with Jack being such a confirmed … ’
5 I would choose one day with you ,
6 I would prefer another day .
7 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 .
8 She treasured it — probably the only smile she 'd get all day .
9 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 .
10 You 'd have one day left over okay .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Here , then , in a temenos , a holy place , cut off from the profane , she would have ten days of solitude .
15 She would spend all day with her daughter and then work on her designs until late in the evening .
16 Anna quite liked dinner , and soon she would know each day by what there was to eat .
17 She would take another day off and then go back to work .
18 I never thought we 'd see this day .
19 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 .
20 Most of the weekend exercises started off with a para drop on to a drop zone somewhere in the British Isles , after which we would spend two days marching with large packs , practising attacks and fieldcraft .
21 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 .
22 When the mill was finished , a few of them might get work in it ( but the Flemyngs wanted girls for it because they would work more days ) .
23 I said , that 's alright , but when you find out what wanted to er to do , he said it 'd take two days .
24 Because otherwise you would n't be able to it 'd take three days to clear so that 's the best way to do it .
25 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 .
26 He would remember this day , this walk .
27 It was raining ; by the look of the heavy , grey sky it would rain all day .
28 His eyes gleamed ; he smiled as he recited what it would do one day .
29 We knew it would happen one day . ’
30 Sometimes he said he knew it would happen one day .
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