Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [modal v] [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 | They say I had the vanity to suppose that he and I might one day share the authorship of some literary work . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , and I might one day be Queen of England ! |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't see how I can unless I manage to shift one way or the other , and I need both hands for that . |
| 5 | The wife and child that Tod and I will one day have . |
| 6 | And I will next year . |
| 7 | And you may one day be the future leader . " |
| 8 | And you can mass type , erm mass headlines , and we do negative type leading and all the rest , but you have to add up that extra descender space and put it at the bottom of the headline . |
| 9 | Eleanor used to say that she inherited her father 's nose and she would one day sue him for damages . |
| 10 | Er , my suggestion is actually that er , the suggestion form should be suggestion forms and we must all suggestions to start . |
| 11 | They 're very good with each other 's babies too , you can come in and not know which baby belongs to who , or a girl 's got an exam coming up and they 'll all muck in and change the baby for her . |
| 12 | But you need to speak with pers well it 's an internal vacancy is n't it , yes and you speak with personnel and they 'll rubber stamp the post , or position rather , age ? |
| 13 | And what would four ad six make ? |
| 14 | And what could twenty-two-year-old trainee social worker Gillian Wyatt do for them ? |
| 15 | But I will one day . |
| 16 | But I will this time , and that 's a promise ! ’ |
| 17 | Well yeah but you will this week ? |
| 18 | I know we 're hard up , but you can ten pence . |
| 19 | ‘ Maybe not , but she will one day , ’ she said , very sure of herself . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | My family , who were threatening to visit us en masse the first weekend of May , ca n't come after all ( plans fell through ) , so wo n't need B & B. But they might some day . |
| 22 | ‘ But they might this year ! ’ interrupted the secretary . |
| 23 | He was almost certain that it belonged to Maidstone but he would newer leave half a glass of wine behind , surely . |
| 24 | An Observer sale would not make much of a dent but it would staunch losses Lonrho may no longer want to suffer . |
| 25 | He told a court in Seoul , South Korea : ‘ I 'm sorry the rapture did not come , but it will one day . ’ |
| 26 | But what will poor Benedict do ? ’ |
| 27 | But what will those budgets buy ? |
| 28 | Taylor says : ‘ What we should be saying now is not what can Great Britain do for small businesses , but what can small businesses do for Great Britain . |