Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [modal v] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Perhaps the knowledge that he would one day die actually gave the poet comfort . |
| 35 | Closer to home , Brian decided that he would reforest Ireland . |
| 36 | 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 ) . |
| 37 | It may be predicted with confidence that he will one day be one of the greatest masters of his art . |