Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb mod] one [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Still , however , I cherished the fantasy that I might one day have a son who would fulfil that dream , and always he had Leslie 's eyes , dark , with soft expressive light . |
2 | I made no notes of these visits to Out Patients , for at the time I had no idea that I might one day feel my experience with cancer sufficiently interesting to write about . |
3 | It never crossed my mind that I might one day have to fight . |
4 | 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 … |
5 | 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 . |
6 | The second reason was that , even were she to have a successful pregnancy and birth , she was terrified that she might one day be carrying her child in her arms when she fainted and might then drop or hurt the child in some way . |
7 | A celebration of the Queen 's passion for the Turf , gun dogs and racing pigeons — one imagines in that order — comes as a welcome relief and makes one hope fervently that she will one day lead in a Derby winner . |
8 | 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 ? ’ |
9 | The Ali Watch : how absurd that it would one day drop down here on a little hospital on Hilton Head Island , South Carolina . |
10 | A group of OSF/Motif suppliers are embarking on a process to keep the graphical user interface ‘ open ’ and allay end-user fears that it could one day be hijacked by an unscrupulous vendor and turned into a proprietary superset of interface characteristics . |
11 | Hakim said he never knew what it was going to be used for next ; on an organisation chart he left a column for Africa , since North had hinted that he might one day do something there too . |
12 | The appointment of court organist there was finally offered to Mozart , with the indication that he might one day become Kapellmeister . |
13 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
14 | John , like Clement , worked hard to secure the king at home and abroad so that he might one day embark on the crusade : the barons , the Scots , and the French were all pressured by John on Edward 's behalf . |
15 | But underneath this camp humour lay the constant dread that he might one day incur conviction and imprisonment . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Perhaps the knowledge that he would one day die actually gave the poet comfort . |
21 | It may be predicted with confidence that he will one day be one of the greatest masters of his art . |