Example sentences of "in [adj] year [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a woman in need of a child to love , and having none of her own she was lavishing it all on Corrie Palmer , which was sad because in another year she would have to be returned to the hospital . |
| 2 | Fortunately she was unaware how often in future years she would resent John 's making decisions which involved both of them without consulting her . |
| 3 | In 100 years they would regard that as pathetic . ’ |
| 4 | In later years she would hit the shins of passers-by with it if they got in her way . |
| 5 | ‘ I promise , ’ Katherine said in a small voice , not quite sure what it was she was pledging , though in later years she would have ample occasion to reflect on what he said . |
| 6 | Doubtless in later years she would be glad of that , but for now she was too embarrassed to care . |
| 7 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 8 | Was it a scene which in later years I would look at with nostalgia , even longing ? |
| 9 | When he thought of India in later years he would always see these two men and two bullocks and the leather bag flooding out its water as it settled on the ground . |
| 10 | In later years he would be at the centre oftwo scandalous court cases … |
| 11 | In three years she would be sixty — and Alexandra would be twenty-four . |
| 12 | If Japan 's lending had continued to expand at the same pace as in recent years it would have overtaken Britain in 1992 . |
| 13 | She likes to shock ; from current trends , the Gothic style pleases her ; in earlier years it would have been punk , or beatnik . |