Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You never know , Mother ; I may one day move up into society . |
| 2 | ‘ He has just told me that if I continue in my present path , remain the fine , upstanding , clean-living boy I so evidently am , I may one day hope — wait for it — to be elected to — Gracious heavens ! — the Cullbridge Athenaeum ! ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It never crossed my mind that I might one day have to fight . |
| 6 | They say I had the vanity to suppose that he and I might one day share the authorship of some literary work . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , and I might one day be Queen of England ! |
| 8 | I finished up in Rome , home to so many of the works I lectured on , and on my last night there I took a walk down to Bernini 's Trevi fountain in order to throw in the coin that would ensure that somehow I would one day return . |
| 9 | I was secretly hoping I would one day find a way of escaping and returning to my own country . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | At this rate , I shall one day be able to put together a complete Pictures and Requiem … |
| 12 | Whether my knowledge that I shall some day die , that a nuclear war is likely sooner or later , that alcohol will kill me , that another person is suffering , does move me in one direction or another , depends on the extent of my disposition to take these things into account in choices , on awareness which may spontaneously vary from one moment to the next and be sustainable only by an effort of will . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps I will one day . |
| 14 | But I will one day . |
| 15 | The wife and child that Tod and I will one day have . |